Terry Moran "We are all living inside the mind of this broken, ferocious man"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Dragging America Down to His Level
No human being should be called "garbage." But Trump's second term is trashing our country


In the Cabinet Room yesterday, President Trump said that Somali-Americans are “garbage” and that he wants them out of the United States.

No president has ever spoken like this to the American people. Not one. We’ve had good presidents and bad presidents. Great leaders and party hacks. Crooks, liars, and lechers; brave heroes, visionaries, kind men. None of them were saints; each brought to the office their unique strengths—and their inner demons, too.

But all of them, to one degree or another, sought to maintain a sense of decency and dignity in the only office designed by our Founders to represent the whole American nation. That high honor chastened most of them in their rhetoric, inspired some to soaring leadership, and drew at least an outer boundary of public speech for presidents.

This ethic of presidential rhetoric isn’t some prissy, schoolmarmish rule. It is a quintessentially American act of respect for the people of this country, an acknowledgment in the semi-formal diction of public pronouncements by presidents that the power any president holds does not, in fact, belong to him. It’s ours. He works for us.

But Donald Trump is a megalomaniac, and he acknowledges no boundaries. That is disgraceful, of course. It is also dangerous—and exhausting. We are all living inside the mind of this broken, ferocious man.

© 2025 Terry Moran
548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104

Posted today in substack. Sorry..no link

[PatSeg]

1. Yes, at least they all tried to

create the appearance of decency and dignity even if it wasn't true. None that I can recall were so utterly brazen and in-your-face about what they were thinking and doing. He just doesn't care anymore. After all, he's president and repeatedly says, "I can do whatever I want".

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. Dozo the 🤡 is in class by himself

[PatSeg]

10. Oh god I hope so!

Like some rare super volcano that only erupts every 100,000 years or more. We certainly don't need to experience another phenomenon like Donald Trump.

[Boomerproud]

9. We are mistaken. His spokesmodel says he is more respectful than any other

by saying the "truth" to our faces. I guess that gives us license to tell him him to his face what we think of him. Who's first? The first part was

[PatSeg]

11. How do these people live with the lies

they are telling? It should haunt them all the days of their lives.

Once and awhile, I imagine myself telling him off to his ugly orange face. Helps keep me grounded.

[Boomerproud]

14. You have to have a conscience and soul.

They have neither.

[PatSeg]

15. Sadly, that is true

To people like them, the ends justify the means. Some even find ways to use religion to justify their deceit.

[travelingthrulife]

16. The evangelical christian ones convince themselves they are Jesus' little helpers.

Astonishingly, they have completely forsaken the teachings attributed to Jesus.

[PatSeg]

18. It is astonishing

They even find ways to justify lying because they are doing it for Jesus. They seem to be oblivious to anything in the new testament or the teachings of Jesus. They are masters at cherry-picking and sometimes they just make up shit.

[mopinko]

2. hell, even chester arthur rose to the occasion.

the MOST unsuited man to rise to the office til tsf.

[PCIntern]

3. My former dental employee is Somali-American

and voted for him. Good for her.

[travelingthrulife]

17. Do you know why she voted for him?

He was just such a revolting choice.

[PCIntern]

19. Because...wait for it...almost unbelievable

Kamala is….black.

Yep.

[erronis]

4. Link to substack

https://terrymoran.substack.com/p/dragging-america-down-to-his-level

You might want to update your OP. Thanks for this!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

13. thanks for the link

[erronis]

5. Closing from Terry Moran's piece - powerful.

To call such people “garbage” is not just a lie. It is a moral disgrace. It is the language of someone who wants to divide Americans into those who belong and those who can be discarded. It stems from the mind and heart of a man who treats human beings as refuse.

This is the vocabulary of dehumanization. And we know where that leads. History teaches it with painful clarity: first you target a vulnerable group with slurs, then with policy, then with force. Look at the timing — the administration is escalating enforcement operations in Minnesota. Words like “garbage” are not slips of the tongue. They are signals.

Real patriotism is not about bloodlines or birthplace. It is measured by what you build, not what you tear down. Somali-Americans have built new lives, new communities, and new futures here. Just like my ancestors. And yours. They represent the resilience and renewal that have always defined this country at its best.

[Amaryllis]

7. I love this: Real patriotism ... is measured by what you build, not what you tear down.

[Amaryllis]

6. Here's the link:

https://terrymoran.substack.com/p/dragging-america-down-to-his-level?
If you click on the title on the Substack post, you get the link. THen take off everthing after the ?

[D_Master81]

12. It's dehumanizing

It’s what authoritarians do to get their supporters to disregard the cruelty they do. You don’t care when it’s to those who aren’t human. Who cares it’s just the garbage of society? It’s pathetic and I never thought I’d see it here but here we are