Congratulations to the Red Sox!

Yes, I'm thrilled my home team won the World Series.

But I can't put up celebratory memes, posters, photos.

I'm too discouraged, despondent, and disgusted today.

America is under seige by a monstrous leader who has dragged America down into the gutter.

This monster, after a massacre by a white supremacist that slaughtered 11 Jews, worried about his hair style and barely addressed the horror that occured at the synagogue on Saturday in Pittsburg.

Trump set the tone when he attacked and slandered Mexicans as being racists and criminals, and it only went downhill from there to Charlottesville where he said Nazis were "nice people."

Make no mistake. No American president would have behaved as callously and inhumanely as this monster has behaved over the past week,when former American presidents, a vice president, secretary of state, and other prominent Democrats were threatened with murder, when African-Americans were executed, when 11 people were massacred in a synagogue in Pittsburg.

No healing words or empathy for the families that have been devastated. No. 

Trump worried about his hair.

That's the monster who leads America.

And the people who continue to support him are either blind to the damage he's doing and has done to America or they are as rotten to the core as he is.

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Here is a letter that was sent to the monster in the White House by memeber of the affiliate of "Bend the Arc, a Jewish partnership for justice:

President Trump:

Yesterday, a gunman slaughtered 11 Americans during Shabbat morning services. We mourn with the victims’ families and pray for the wounded. Here in Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood, we express gratitude for the first responders and for the outpouring of support from our neighbors near and far. We are committed to healing as a community while we recommit ourselves to repairing our nation.

For the past three years your words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement. You yourself called the murderer evil, but yesterday’s violence is the direct culmination of your influence.  

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism.

Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted.  You have also deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Yesterday’s massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country.  

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you stop targeting and endangering all minorities.

The murderer’s last public statement invoked the compassionate work of the Jewish refugee service HIAS at the end of a week in which you spread lies and sowed fear about migrant families in Central America. He killed Jews in order to undermine the efforts of all those who find shared humanity with immigrants and refugees.

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you cease your assault on immigrants and refugees.

The Torah teaches that every human being is made b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God.

This means all of us.

In our neighbors, Americans, and people worldwide who have reached out to give our community strength, there we find the image of God.  While we cannot speak for all Pittsburghers, or even all Jewish Pittsburghers, we know we speak for a diverse and unified group when we say:

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you commit yourself to compassionate, democratic policies that recognize the dignity of all of us.