Why did an 80-year-old widower who lives in a Newtown Square retirement community spend $50,000 to take out a full-page ad in last Sunday’s New York Times pleading for President Donald Trump to resign? Read the answer HERE.
Text of the full page ad that an 80 year old man, Grant Grissom, took out in this past Sunday’s New York Times asking Trump to resign. A subsequent article in Grissom’s Philadelphia newspaper, the Inquirer, reported he spent (with the approval of his children) $50,000 to run the ad in the NYT and elsewhere. I find him to be an inspirational model for each and every one of us to stand up in whatever capacity we can to the atrocities occurring under the current regime.
A PLEA FOR DONALD TRUMP TO RESIGN
Dear President Trump,
I was born 80 years ago in a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia. I was taught to respect all people, regardless of wealth, power, or status, and to be wary of the empty promises of politicians. Cops and firemen lived in my neighborhood. Some still do. Some likely voted for you, thinking that you respected them. Then came your order pardoning the thugs who attacked the police officers at the Capitol. Despite the fact that some of those officers died. Despite the fact that they had children and families that loved them. You called the thugs “patriots” and pardoned them. That filled me with disgust. It showed me that you don’t give a damn about “law and order.” You only pretend to care about the cops and firefighters who put their safety at risk every single day to protect our communities. I do not carry water for the Democratic Party. I was a member of the Republican Party when it stood for fiscal responsibility and the rule of law. When Republican presidents stood strong with our allies and never groveled before a dictator. Prostrating yourself to Putin is despicable. Your actions desecrate a flag that generations of Americans in uniform bled and died for. Americans like John McCain. His heroism showed us who he was. When you disrespected him, you showed us who you are. You show contempt for poor and middle-class Americans, allowing Elon Musk to dismantle agencies they rely on while he prances around the Oval Office and you sit inert at your desk. You place unqualified lackeys in charge of those agencies. You have contempt for anyone more loyal to God and country than to you; ask Mike Pence. Your tax cut in 2017 yielded hundreds of millions of dollars for your billionaire friends and pennies for the middle-class blue-collar families that make America great. You intend to do it again: to take benefits from those who have the least to sate the gluttony of the rich. You have refused to reject White Supremacy, an especially odious Christian heresy that finds no support in scripture or church doctrine, and that has caused incalculable suffering among Black and Native Americans. You have encouraged support for the White Christian Nationalist movement, rejecting the “separation of church and state” grounded in the First Amendment of the Constitution you swore to protect, and honored by every president since Thomas Jefferson coined the phrase in 1802. Imagine an elder speaking to a gathering of children: “There are two fierce tigers in my spirit: Anger-Hatred and Love-Compassion. They are fighting to the death.” A fearful child asks: “Which will win?” The elder replies: “The one that I feed.” You have fed us a diet of your anger and hatred. It has divided us and made us sick. But in so doing, you have shown Americans of all colors, of all faiths, how dark our nation can become when our leaders act without wisdom, honor or integrity; how precious is our democracy and the love of neighbor that Jesus commanded.
Many patriotic Americans voted for you. You have betrayed them. For the sake of God and country: Resign.
Paid for by Grant Grissom
Needs to run in every paper, every TV, every on-line service, over and over and over.
Brilliant! Every sentence is spot on. Bravo too for having the initiative for taking out the ad.
The truth is Donald Trump is a second-tier, serial bankrupt, loan-defaulting, real estate developer – not a Titan. And certainly not, a Statesman.
Neither he, nor it would seem the majority of Americans born after 1960 (now some 80%) who voted for him, appear to realize America will become “great” only to the extent it regains its fiber and the free world’s trust.
His “transactional” Foreign Policy is no more than bullying the weak. While sucking up to Putin, only means, selling out the Ukraine. If Russia does have its way in Eastern Europe – and China in the Pacific – it will be over. So much for those who fought on Normandy or Guadalcanal.
Thank you for this post. Notty Bumpo is correct. It is inexplicable that the media, the podcasters, the substack writers have ignored Grant Grissom’s courage and the truth of his assessment of the man hellbent on destroying democracy, the Constitution and the US’s stature in the world in violation of his oath of office.
Thank you thank you, Grant Grissom for your generosity, for your outstanding heartful statement and plea.
May it reach millions, including the President and those in abeisance to him, and motivate millions to ACT! to reclaim our direction toward love and compassion! toward lived democtatic ideals! People, an avalanche is roiling over us faster and more devastating than we ever imagined.
SILENCE IS COLLUSION.
Mr. Grissom is a true patriot, unlike Trump, his Cabinet, Administration and the majority of legislative Republicans. How wonderful that Mr. Grissom wrote such inspiring words ,that he was willing to spend a considerable amount of money to have them published and that his children supported him
I agree…this needs to run in every newspaper, every TV station, every on-line service, every social media platform…every day!
Thank you, Mr. Grissom! I respect your patriotism and love of country. If Trump had a shred of decency, he would resign.
One brave man I totally support and love. Please, everyone —-we must not stand up to this continued outrage. Trump does not speak for me.
Every person should make 365 copies of this letter and mail one every day to D. J. Trump.
Disagree with Mr. Grissom’s OPINION! Do not agree with his depiction of White Supremacy (Trump received an NAACP award) and his challenging birthright citizenship (many scholars do not think that was the intent of the original amendment language). Much of what President Trump is doing is putting America back on tract., especially given the previous 4 years. Agree – there are some things we prefer he did differently, but overall he is doing a very good job. Finally, Mr. Grissom did not address DOGE or any of their amazing findings/results.