Online Public Relations Thoughts

How can the Trump administration trumpet MAGA when it is doing this to citizens and immigrants?  ICE agents and the police are out of control in siezing illegals and are acting like jackbooted thugs.  It is not America to act that way and falls far short of the promise of the Statue of Liberty.

Although the economy grew at a 3% pace in the second quarter, it's too soon to boast.  A year from now, we will know whether it was a trend or a blip.  It's dangerous to take credit too early.  

Netanyahu denies the facts and images from Gaza about starvation.  What is he thinking and how has he remained in power for this long?  Israelis are better than this.  It is past time to stop this ethnic cleansing and to work to regain the country's shattered reputation in the world.  

 “It’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in May, in response to questions about whether the president would conduct personal business meetings on his trip to the Middle East. “This White House holds ourselves to the highest of ethical standards.”  The president's golf trip to Scotland makes this statement from his press secretary an outright lie.  Add the trip to other conflicts and Trump is guilty of hypocrisy at its worst. Yet, he is getting away with it.

 This is a case of giving in rather than fighting back when fighting back was needed.  Academic freedom doesn't mean much when federal dollars are involved.  

Former President Obama's response to Trump's charges of treason was one statement from a spokesperson.  It was and is hardly enough to take on the bully pulpit of the presidency.  Democrats have yet to learn to fight back against lies and insinuations.  They are still unable to master the new media and it is hurting the party at the polls.  They need to communicate facts strenuously and persistently without deference to the Oval Offfice. 

ICE's rush to arrest migrants and jail them is out of control, as this story demonstrates.  It is ruinous to America's reputation and contrary to the promise of the Statue of Liberty. Fortunately, citizens are protesting and lawyers suing to stop it.  Their efforts are not enough right now but public opinion has shifted and the next election will reveal how much Americans care.

 Just business -- or so they say.

This is criminal.  With millions around the earth starving and facing death, to destroy food that could keep them alive is beyond shameful.  The Trump administration has burned America's reputation to the ground.

Many smaller PBS/NPR stations are facing their mortality with this senate vote.  It will be a blow to free speech and not-for-profit news gathering, not to mention educational TV.  

The Trump Administration is at it again.  It is hiding legally mandated climate reports from the public.  Trump has called climate change a hoax and has already backtracked on numerous activities to combat it.  Apparently by hiding the reports it spares him from answering embarrassing questions about increasingly violent weather. What citizens don't know won't hurt them.  Transparency be damned.  This is yet another coverup by an authoritarian government, which will do real harm.  It's shameful and infuriating.  

 This is a phony, blatantly outrageous excuse for slamming Canada with a 35% tariff. Trump is going out of his way to wreck foreign relations.   All in pursuit of illusory power...

How do you convince people of climate change and the extreme weather events that come with it?  This is the communications challenge faced by weather services.  It's not going to be easy.  People live in a bubble.  They think it can't happen to me until it does.  What is needed is a new behavior of climate awareness and what can happen whether fires or floods and preparation for both.  We're nowhere near that goal.  

Trump is learning that Putin can't be trusted.  What took him so long?  Biden knew that from the beginning.  Could it be this self-promoting dealmaker has met a person with whom he can't negotiate?

Why do people persist in building in flood zones?  What is the quirk in the human mind that says a flood can't happen to me?  Why are they shocked when it happens?  It turns out several Texas camps along the Guadalupe River are in flood zones and they were ravaged by the downpour on July 4.  Blame is being passed around freely but no one yet is saying the camps never should have been built next to the river in the first place.  

Time will tell whether this legislation is brutal or not.  Time and the voters.