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I Don’t Think Trump and I Can Be Friends Anymore
His assault on education appears to have a more sinister purpose
Back when John F. Kennedy was President, things were different. The press proclaimed his presidency the new Camelot. The United States was going to send a man to the moon.
Kennedy created the Peace Corps to do good throughout the world. And in schools everywhere, young people participated in the President’s Physical Fitness Program under JFK’s handpicked director, Bud Wilkinson, the University of Oklahoma football coach.
There was a feeling of hope from the very first day he was inaugurated as President when he said:
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans — born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage — and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Things are different now. The USAID program, also started by Kennedy, has been gutted by billionaire Elon Musk, a South African immigrant. President Trump is buying shares…
