Racist Trump keeping promise to destroy everything President Obama had achieved

Republicans haven't been able to agree on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, so President Trump is trying to destroy it on his own, as seen in this cartoon by Dave Granlund.

Cartoonist Jimmy Margulies notes Puerto Ricans want the same treatment as other Americans as they try to recover from Hurricane Maria, but not when it comes to health care.

-- HACKENSACK, N.J.

By VICTOR E. SASSON

EDITOR

President Trump is finding new ways of exacting revenge for the humiliation he suffered at the hands of Barack Obama, our first black president.

Last week, he added the North American trade agreement, the Iran nuclear deal and the Affordable Care Act to his hit list.

According to a PBS documentary aired 17 days before his Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump's burning desire to be elected president can be traced to the April 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Obama had provided his birth certificate to the news media, and set out to humiliate Trump, who was in the audience after spending weeks attacking the president for allegedly not being born in the United States, and possibly being a Muslim.

"But that night, in front of Washington's journalists, politicians and power brokers, Obama would hit back," FRONTLINE reported:

Humiliated by Obama at press dinner, 

Trump is getting his revenge

Obama's race a factor

"Trump's entire political life -- dating all the way back to his adoption of birtherism earlier this decade -- is positioned against all things Obama," Chris Cillizza of CNN reported on Friday.

"Why? Because for many Trump supporters in this country, Obama -- and his beliefs about society and government -- were the antithesis of what they believed.

"(Yes, Obama's race -- and multicultural vision of the country and the world -- were part of that mix as well)."

Court challenges

An especially weak area in the news coverage of Trump is the lack of reporting on all of the court challenges to his executive orders and other actions, and where those lawsuits stand.

Reporters also are reluctant to challenge Trump in person.

That allows him to make it up as he goes along -- exaggerating, fabricating and lying outright in the sound bites we are assaulted with whenever we watch TV or listen to radio news.

I actually heard him say one reason he is trying to eliminate the subsidies health insurance companies get from government is because the insurers don't support him.

He also claimed they are using the money to boost their stock prices.

Puerto Rico

Nor have many reporters stated flatly that Trump's mistreatment of the 3.4 million Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria was motivated by the quirky fact that although they are U.S. citizens, they can't vote for president.

More than 700,000 Puerto Ricans left the island between 2006 and 2015, fleeing the economic decline and mounting debt crisis, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Some people also moved back, but the island saw the total number of residents drop to 3.4 million from 3.8 million -- more than 10%, the newspaper said.

Cartoonist Pat Bagley of The Salt Lake City (Utah) Tribune questions why Donald J. Trump was treated differently than Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, a big Democratic donor.

Cartoonist Monte Wolverton of The Plain Truth magazine highlights one of the many ways Trump and his family have profited from his election.