Following the horrific dastardly secret attack by the Empire of Japan on US naval forces in Hawai’i’s Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to the Congress and to the nation saying: “December 7th, 1941, a day that will live in infamy…!”

This event ushered in a radical shift and realignment of the world order by bringing the United States into a war with Japan and by entering the war in Europe in defense of our longtime partners against the forces of tyranny.

Following the horrific dastardly secret attack by Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House Oval Office carried live on television, we the people throughout the world can proclaim: “February 28, 2025, a day that will live in infamy…!”

This event ushered in the final installment of an inexorable creeping radical shift and realignment of the world order instigated by Donald J. Trump during his entire political career by placing the United States squarely on the side of the forces of autocratic oligarchical tyranny against our longtime partners in support of our traditional democratic principles.

On January 20, 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address in which he announced that “we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.“

On February 28, 2025, President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office ambushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and said in more than words that we would not pay anything, not bear anything, never meet any hardship, sacrifice and turn on our friends and allies, embrace all our foes to ensure the downfall of liberty and the support of tyranny.

As virtually everyone knows, or at least should know, so-called “Reality TV Shows” are anything but real. Networks manufacture them for the titillation and mindless entertainment of the viewing public.

Donald J. Trump, the sorcerer on his TV show, “The Apprentice,” lured President Zelensky to the White House for the alleged purpose of discussing possible paths forward in ending the Russia-Ukraine War and to sign an initial agreement for Ukraine to hand over a significant percentage of its rare earth minerals as repayment for past U.S. military and humanitarian aid, and for some sort of security agreement for the embattled nation.

Ever for the television fake reality entertainer who lives on lies and deceit, however, Trump’s bait and switch from a diplomatic negotiation standpoint into an........

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