On his best day, Donald Trump isn’t fit to hold John Lewis’s coat

Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad! – Tweet from Donald J. Trump, January 14, 2017

This installment of the shieldWALL will be shorter than most. I just want to say “out loud” that in my opinion, Congressman John Lewis is 20 times the American that our alt-President is and 100 times the man.

Insulting him during a Twitter rant is one of the worst things Trump has done. It also shows that Trump knows nothing about the country he is about to lead.

John Lewis has devoted a lifetime to the cause of civil rights. He was a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington, and he was on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, when 600 peaceful protesters were savagely beaten by police while marching to win voting rights in the state.

John Lewis is an American hero. He has been fighting for civil rights for more than 50 years, and even today, while the Republican Party is inventing ways to disenfranchise as many African American voters as possible, John Lewis is still defending the right of all Americans to vote.

By comparison, Donald Trump’s claim to fame is inheriting millions from his father and using it to build a shady financial empire while making and losing a fortune several times over. Besides that, if anybody is guilty of “talk, talk, talk,” it would be him.

Sadly, I can’t stop Donald Trump from becoming our president on Friday, but I can offer him some advice: Put down the blackberry and open a few books. Try to learn a little history about this country where we live before taking a seat in its most important chair.

And for heaven’s sake stop mocking our American heroes. They’re the people who actually can make this country great.