Independence Day will be soon be upon us. We should all read the entire Declaration of Independence before then. Note how often the word “tyrant” is used? (Wonder how long it will be before President Trump will ask to be addressed as Sire or Your Majesty? It would be just one more of his wild and irrational demands we’ve become accustomed to.)

Perhaps history is really repeating itself. King George III had a temporary disease that affected his mind, ergo judgment: a “madness.” President Trump’s madness has yet to be determined, but it should be. And, whereas the British Parliament had the power and influence to rein in King George’s decisions and judgment, in our country, so many years later, neither President Trump’s party nor the Supreme Court are willing to stand up and oppose his unconstitutional commands.

Nowhere in our Constitution, Bill of Rights, the Declaration, etc., does it say the president is “he who must be obeyed.” So, why is he? A man who can’t speak or write coherently for 10 minutes has power over the lives and deaths of our country’s inhabitants.

Enough of Mad King Donald, already.

Carl Scheiman
Damariscotta