Do you remember the uproar when President Barack Obama accepted a shiny $50,000 gold coin from the Sultan of Brunei? Critics said he was “selling out the presidency.” Republicans called for his immediate impeachment. Even some Democrats said he had “betrayed the office,” particularly after Obama refused to return the gift, saying he “deserved it for the outstanding job I’ve done as your President.”
Of course you don’t remember it because it didn’t happen! It could never have happened. Not under Obama. Not under any president until the present one. Because we Americans have always understood that when one assumes the presidency of the world’s mightiest country, one also assumes a sacred obligation to the people of this nation. That obligation is to put, as one recent president describes it, “America first.”
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