​According to news reports on Sunday, July 15, our president, Donald Trump, has once again attacked our journalists and our news media and called them “the enemy of the people.” If it were not for my tendency to actually read the news from many sources and fact check information that I receive along with my fellow Americans on a daily basis, perhaps I could believe the words of our president. But truth be told, there are so many ways to accurately check facts in our world which show so much actual evidence of President Donald Trump’s continuing to voice false and inaccurate information in an effort to cloud the reality about us, that I am unable to conclude anything other than our president is a disgrace to our nation.
 
To all of us in American, we need to understand that the questions surrounding our current president have nothing to do with the political and social differences that exist among our fellow citizens. Rather, it has to do with whether or not we have a president who has chosen to disregard the ethical and moral boundaries of his position.
 
One of my country’s major strengths, freedom of the press, is found in the First Amendment of our United States Constitution. Said Amendment reads as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
 
Our current president has knowingly been attempting to destroy our press in public through his constant tweeting and voiced statements essentially claiming that fake news is all that we are getting from our journalists and news media. I will never deny that on occasion, we have experienced inappropriate reporting by individual members of our press corps, but our history has shown us that our American press has been a positive influence on the survival of our current democracy through their mostly honest reporting, and it is up to “We The People” to defend all that makes us great including freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press.

In recent days, I have listened to a number of religious leaders, during interviews on major news television shows, calling upon their fellow religious leaders of all faiths to come forward and speak up for their ethical and moral beliefs. One of their main arguments revolves around their belief that if one truly believes that God created all of humankind, then it is the duty of God’s true believers to actually act like a community and stand up for each and every one of our fellow humans. Let us judge our fellow humans based not upon the color of their skin, the name of their religion or the site of their nationality, but on their actual daily actions and deeds and on how they behave with everyone around us. 
 
We in America can be proud of much that we as a country have done during our history, but it is important to acknowledge that we also are responsible for incredibly negative behaviors including slavery, segregation and the inappropriate internment of Americans during World War II simply because of from where they came. If we truly are a nation committed to doing the right thing for one and all, then it is up to our religious leaders and to all of our fellow Americans who claim to believe in and to follow the will of God to do more than just echo the words of beliefs. It is time for us all to actually be with each other in search of the fair and decent solutions that will help all of us to be better people and have better lives.