By Paul Silverstone | 1 June 2026
Church and State
Trump’s devastating actions just this year are bringing disaster to the United States. In so many fields he has poked his nose and issued orders that unnecessarily damage the smooth running of our country.
The illegal Iran war has already gone on longer than he expected and he needs to get out of it, but he will not be able to return orderly commerce to the area. Already bored with this war and scared of its results, he appears to be turning to his next target, Cuba. All without any authorization from Congress.
His dissolution of our excellent health care system with its valuable research and prevention methods has caught us in a bad situation with a new outbreak of Ebola for which we now seem to be unprepared. Already our cessation of aid has caused this deadly disease to spread.’
His ending of the AID program abroad has caused misery and death among our friends for no benefit except saving a few dollars in our huge budget. This loss of soft power is very bad for our country as he does not realize that our power in the world is not solely force.
His tariffs have again unnecessarily hurt us and our relations with both friends and others abroad, as well as disrupting ordinary commerce.
He has pardoned many criminals in exchange for receiving large amounts of money for his projects. Now he even wants to give away government money to reward these criminals.
The justices of the Supreme Court that he put in office are choosing bad solutions to favor him while better solutions are clearly available.
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Contracts have been awarded to his friends without the important bidding or research to determine who would be the best awardee. His ongoing destruction of our beautiful capitol city continues without any proper authority.
His un-American attacks on immigrants and others by using government authority will hurt us as immigration has been the lifeblood of our economic and commercial greatness. The Gestapo-like tactics of ICE intended to instill fear are a stain on our flag.
Many of these things bring joy to our adversaries. Putin and Xi are watching as he damages our prestige and leadership in the world. His use of amateurs to negotiate deals and run government departments leaves us at a big disadvantage.
It will take a rare new person to reverse all the damage he has caused and continues to cause. It is incredible that one unstable man can so quickly destroy or is trying to destroy many of the positive advances we have made in the last 100 years. And equally incredible that the elected leaders of his party do not use their powers under the Constitution and laws to restrain him.
Paul Silverstone is the author of several books on naval vessels including a five-volume series covering all US warships from 1775 to 2007. His latest book “The Navy of the 21st Century” was published in 2024. He is a graduate of Yale University (BA 1953) where he majored in political science and international relations, and Harvard Law School (JD 1956) and for many years was in the travel business in New York City. In 2020 he moved from New York to Vancouver, Canada.
He does genealogical research on his extended family with particular emphasis on families from the United States, Canada, Poland and Ukraine. Paul was a member of the Executive Council of the New York Jewish Genealogical Society from 1996 to 2020 and was Treasurer from 2000 to 2007. He was the treasurer and board member of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) from 2009 to 2015.
"The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001-2022 (The U.S. Navy Warship Series)" by Paul Silverstone.https://t.co/cf8GEMBjhF
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