According to Donald Trump, we should all boycott the Jesus-hating, troops-loving Starbucks because of its horribly offensive red coffee cups. If he becomes president, we’ll all say “Merry Christmas” again.
Here’s a question, Trump: Did we ever stop? Sure, many businesses and restaurants now say “happy holidays” to avoid offending those who observe other religious holidays, but nine in 10 Americans still celebrate Christmas, according to Pew.
Some religious conservatives expressed anger toward Starbucks for its minimalist design after social media evangelist Joshua Feuerstein posted a video on Facebook denouncing the company for taking Christmas off the cup because it hates Jesus.
Trump’s proclamation is his latest proposition proving he is a child trying to sit at the adult table during the holidays. His presidential campaign is starting to portray Trump as less of a breath of fresh air to American politics and more of an outcast to the Republican Party. His “outsider” status is losing power, and his outlandish plans are demonstrating he has no clue how to run a country.
As Trump loses ground in the polls, it is clear many Americans grew tired of his antics.
The debate last week further proved Trump can’t compete with the other candidates in areas of grave importance. Let’s forget his hair and wild rants and examine his ludicrous policies that will only survive in a utopian political never-never land.
The attacks in Paris sent shockwaves through the entire country and emphasized the importance of foreign policy in the 2016 presidential election. In a speech given on Monday in Tennessee, Trump claims it’s time to “talk about radical Islamism” and blames “weak and ineffective leadership” for the attacks on Paris, which killed at least 129 people.
What Trump doesn’t see is the Obama administration is not weak. Obama is trying to maintain diplomacy and not send our country into yet another war in the Middle East.
In a time when terrorist threats loom as a dark cloud over our country, we must have a president with ample knowledge of foreign policy, an area Trump lacks knowledge. This lack of knowledge extends far beyond his inability to name terrorist group leaders in an interview and his belief these leaders will be gone in a year. But hey, at least he can pay people to know about foreign policy, right?
Wrong. Trump criticized China. He condemned Mexico and the border. He claims we should fight to protect America with no apologies, but many of his supporters have no idea what this would mean for our country.
America would go to war with China and Mexico and of course we would “bomb the Hell” out the Middle East. Who is going to fight all of these wars? How do we finance these wars while we’re financing the building of a wall between the United States and Mexico?
Trump would reshape foreign policy into a conflicting global disaster with mass human casualties as well as severing vital relationships, which took years of diplomacy to build and maintain.
If Trump is elected president, I fear comparisons to Nazi Germany and his desire for world domination. He targets a specific group of immigrants for all of our problems and plans to eradicate them from society. Name a problem, Adolf Hitler could fix it. Trump has an answer for everything, the answer usually being he can pay someone to fix the problem for him. People once laughed at the idea of Hitler rising to power, much like we are doing with Trump right now.
This presidential election hosts an interesting cast of characters, ranging from a black man to women to a socialist. If one of these candidates doesn’t step up and take Trump out, who knows what America will look like in two years?
Mariah Manuel is 22-year-old mass communication senior from Lake Charles, Louisiana. You can reach her on Twitter @mariah_manuel.