When you lose trust you lose everything.

Hubby and I were talking last evening about Trump. When it comes to many issues and our current president, we agree. Hubby is with me about the fact he is a severe narcissist, and so Trump cares for nobody but himself. We both agree he is morally devoid of wanting good for others, and in seeing good in others, and of being kind to others, and he is unable to show respect for others unless it helps him out.

As we talked though, the subject of the destruction of the boats coming out of Venezuela, and that region, came up. Hubby said he was pleased to see that drug boats were attacked and decimated. I said that Congress never approved the attacks on the boats and that it is one more thing that Trump has decided to do without proper ‘democratic’ approval. Hubby responded that some things have to happen in secret to work right. He said we have to have TRUST in our leadership, in them knowing more than we do, and in doing the right thing.

I agree that military plans for future actions certainly cannot be broadcast to the public, or made common knowledge, especially when lives are in jeopardy. I agree that under normal times we would have faith that our leaders were doing the right thing for our country, even behind closed doors.

But, our country now has a president who has shown over and over to us that he is not trustworthy. He has gone back on his word many times, and he has lied thousands of times over and over. He is like the children’s nursery tale of the little boy who cried wolf. The shepherd boy became untrustworthy because he lied over and over to the town people about seeing a wolf among the sheep. But, one day, a wolf really did appear – and when the boy again cried ‘wolf’ to get some help nobody believed him. The boy was unable to save some of his sheep from the bad wolf. The townspeople had completely lost trust in him and did not help.

It’s really hard to get trust back once it has been lost.

And, any person who has been untrustworthy over a lot of time, really has to work extra hard to prove themselves believable, and to have others again accept them at their word. It takes a real effort. It takes a desire to change. It takes an apology.

Back to the boats decimated out of the water: There has been no public proof visibly shown, or given to the press, that drugs and drug smugglers were on those boats. Perhaps the boats have been so completely destroyed that there is no evidence left to prove it. Or, perhaps if there might be some parts of the boats still floating in the water there has been no public word that it has been collected. What were the boat names? Passenger names onboard? None of that has been released. Why?

For reasons unknown to the public, Trump and Hegseth are bringing an aircraft carrier to the area. There has been ‘talk’ of more attacks, some closer to land, or maybe even on land. We know that Trump is a bully. He uses bully talk to threaten, to intimidate, and he uses fear to get his way. It’s nothing new.

As I have watched Trump these past ten years in politics, and even before as a businessman, I learned he had no integrity, and he did not value trust at all. He has used people, and then quickly dismissed them. He has let people suffer when he is finished with them.

So, I admit that I may have a bias when it comes to the actions of blowing up boats in the ocean waters. I don’t trust our president at all. I don’t trust those who work closely with him that they are trustworthy either, and that they will keep him in check. I am like one of those town people who have heard ‘wolf’ cried too often.

When you have lost trust in a person, or in your government, you have lost faith in them doing the right thing. Fear and doubt rule. There is no comfort found. No belief in their actions. No TRUST anymore.

Like blowing boats out of the water.

When you lose trust you lose everything.