Margaret was making soup from the leftover bones from a Costco chicken, and just as she was about to throw away these ugly pieces our television set was delivering into our apartment our president explaining what he was going to do with the 800,000 young immigrants who were brought into the US from their home country when they were very young.   The average age of The Dreamers when they were brought into our country was age 6 1/2.  Margaret went on with the task of making her soup, and I used my iPhone to take the picture above. I confess to thinking that the President of the United States of America, my president, is as distasteful to me as the bag of bones. The President was exclaiming how he loved The Dreamers.  I was thinking WHAT?  He had announced to two powerful Democrats that he is willing to "allow" the 800,000 to avoid immediate deportation.  The President and his party that is in the majority in both Houses of Congress are not agreeing on the ways he is following through on some of his campaign promises.  What will come next from the White House, is anyone's guess.

My October issue of The Atlantic came this week.  Jack Goldsmith, a former assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, has written an essay that all Americans should read.  He fears for the Republic if the president continues to behave in his office as he has behaved up to this point in his administration. I quote here the first paragraph of Goldsmith's essay:

"Donald Trump is testing the institution of the presidency unlike any of his 43 predecessors.  We have never had a president so ill-informed about the nature of his office, so openly mendacious, so self-destructive, or so brazen in his abusive attacks on the courts, the press, Congress (including members of his own party), and even senior officials within his own administration.  Trump is a Frankenstein's monster of past presidents' worst attributes: Andrew Jackson's rage; Millard Fillmore's bigotry; James Buchanon's incompetence and spite; Theodore Roosevelt's self-aggrandizement; Richard Nixon's paranoia, insecurity, and indifference to law; and Bill Clinton's lack of self control and reflexive dishonesty."

You can read the entire essay in the October 2017 issue of The Atlantic, pages 60-66.