Trump's United Nations Speech

Why would a President who's against globalism and diplomacy even be invited to the United Nations to speak? 

Donald Trump's problems with the United Nations have mostly been explained away as issues with corruption and bureaucratic ineptitude, but he revealed to his speech to the United Nations that he has no interest in its goal of providing a more peaceful, verdant or secure world.  He encouraged other countries to follow his administration's example of looking out for themselves first and the rest of the planet rarely.  He tried to deflect from his misogynistic domestic policies by promoting programs that help women in other parts of the world - programs that could be cut if the United States cuts its U.N. dues.  He complained how the U.S. is one of 193 U.N. member nations but pays for 22 percent of his budget, as if, say, Surinam or Equatorial Guinea were in any position to pay more. 

Then he went nuclear - literally.  He not only wants to rip up the Iran nuclear deal (any day now), he  also threatened to nuke North Korea if Kim Jong Un doesn't stop testing missiles.

And I'm worried about hurricanes?          

No sane world leader - that obviously leaves out Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel - can feel assured of a brighter future after the declaration of war that Trump just delivered.  Some of his  comments seemed to come right out of his Twitter account - he called the North Korean leader "Rocket Man."  Elton John and Bernie Taupin, call your lawyers!

I can't help but think of how we ended up with the Bush-Clinton continuum that gave us Trump.  It's highly likely that neither the Bushes nor the Clintons would have ended up in Washington if the elder George Bush hadn't been helped by the Democrats' lack of a strong presidential nominee in the 1988 election - in other words, if Gary Hart hadn't been felled by a sex scandal.  During that scandal, conservative columnist Cal Thomas, who rendered Hart unfit for the Presidency based on a possible extramarital affair, asked while on a TV-show panel, "What could be worse than adultery?"  Democratic strategist Mark Green, another panelist, replied, "Nuclear war!"

And while Trump was talking about annihilating North Korea, there was Melania, his marriage to whom being a by-product of his womanizing, looking on and listening.  That's irony for you.

And even though Gary Hart was self-centered, egotistical, paranoid toward the press, angry at the world, and aloof, even I have to concede that, while there's no guarantee that he would have been elected President if the Bimini affair hadn't happened, we would have been better off if he had.  

We're in trouble going forward.  If you thought 2017 has been a bad year, the year 2018 could be a darker, more dangerous. and more disastrous year for America and the world.