For all intended purposes, it is fair to say…. Our country is in a pickle.   No one knows for sure who is running the justice department; the stock market is crashing, no Attorney General, no Chief of Staff, the only adult in the room, the Secretary of Defense gave notice of intent because it was impossible to compete with Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.  There have been more than 50 administration people in Trump’s orbit who have been fired, resigned or left for unknown reasons.  Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has indicted or gotten guilty pleas from 33 people and three companies that we know.  Healthcare is in crisis, and right now, the Federal government is partially shut down because of a wall.

In 1987 President Reagan made a speech in West Berlin, Germany telling Mikhail Gorbachev the Soviet Union, “Tear down this wall.” Now Putin, Russia, the old Soviet Union is praising Trump for pulling out of Syria. Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops came only weeks after Putin and Saudi Crown Prince high-fived at the G20 summit.  We’ll never know the private conversation between  Putin and Trump in Helsinki, a complete smack in the face to the people of the United States, compounded by Trump believing the Saudi’s Prince explanation for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi over our nation’s Intelligence Agencies.  Trump is making Nixon look like a saint.

In honor of the recently departed, the late 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, I would like a kinder, gentler nation.