A Letter to Lady Liberty: Dump Him, Girl!

It’s time for an intervention

Dear Lady Liberty, somebody’s gotta tell you the truth.

I know you and him have had this on and off thing for the last eight years, but you and I have real history. Ever since you moved here from France, you’ve been a beacon of light to the free world.

But then he came along. He was jealous of your light. He wanted to possess it; if he can’t possess it, he wants it gone.

It’s not you, it’s him

From the moment he first asked you, his red flags were on full display. You knew how he treated his exes: the women he abused and took advantage of, the businesses he bankrupted. You wanted to think you were different—special.

But the only person who’s special to him is himself.

He’s spent years trying to convince you that you’re dependent on him. He’s torn down your self esteem, making you feel like your value only comes from what you look like and where you’re from.

He claimed to like you, but he only likes what you can give him. He doesn’t like what you stand for: the justice he claims to be above, the freedom he seeks to control, and the happiness he wants to reserve only for himself and his bros. He doesn’t like the things that make you different and interesting, your diverse background, and complex history.

Remember the first time you tried to break up? He got his friends to outright attack you! They broke into your house, messed up your property, and tried to force you to take him back. They even attacked the police that defended you.

Even after that, he wouldn’t leave you alone. He spent the next four years telling anyone who would listen that you needed him. He even claimed that you hadn’t broke up at all (delusional, much?).

You had a few letdowns, a few bumps in the road; your self-esteem took a hit. You became convinced he was right.

Someone has to tell you

You’re in an abusive relationship, girl.

I know it’s a hard pill to swallow, but look at the patterns.

He makes promises he never intends to keep. Always promising to lower prices, only to claim later that higher prices were necessary. Promising free speech while attacking everyone who disagrees with him.

Remember when he called President Zelensky of Ukraine a dictator? Later, when he was actually in a room with Zelensky, he claimed to have never said such a thing at all. Lied through his teeth!

You should hear what he says about you behind your back.

You’re always on edge, walking on eggshells to avoid setting him off. Everything from specific words in research grants to judges’ rulings cause him to lash out.

You’re Lady Liberty! By definition, you deserve someone who’s safe to disagree with. Our democracy was built on the freedom to disagree, to protest, to oppose.

You feel trapped in the cycle. He lovebombs you, promising shiny things and claiming to love what you love. Then, he ghosts on those promises, punishes you for being you, and gaslights you about it all.

He’s constantly threatening to take things away from you, have noticed that? Even harmless, fun things like TikTok. He first threatened to take it away back in 2020, and set in motion the process towards getting it banned.

Then, he “saved” it and claimed you should be grateful. But TikTok’s not “saved”, the ban is only paused! He’ll either take it away again or change it so you don’t even want it anymore.

Talk about disrespecting boundaries! And expecting a thank you for it? No way.

Also, can we talk about the tariff thing? Every time he places tariffs on foreign goods, it throws your economy into chaos. Just like with TikTok, he’s constantly threatening tariffs. He’ll place them, tank the stock market, pause them, reinstate them, tank the stock market—rinse, repeat.

He’s playing with your emotions, getting you used to this cycle of toxic behavior. Doesn’t it bother that he’s using goods you have to pay for as a bargaining chip against other countries? Not even our enemies either—our friends and allies!

Dump him, girl!

I know you might think I’m overstepping, but I can’t leave you all alone in this toxic relationship. By driving away your friends and allies, he’s already made you more vulnerable.

His behavior is clearly escalating. Your man thinks he’s above the law and the very constitution you stand for!

Just the other day, he openly defied a court order from a judge. He always has some excuse as to why he’s justified, and some way to put the blame on someone else.

He claimed to be invoking wartime authority to deport dangerous gang members, but ICE has already admitted in a statement that many of those deported don’t have a criminal record. These were people sent to dangerous labor camps in a country they’re not even from.

He tried to use the Alien Enemies act, not out of concern for gang violence, but to deport these people without any due process. Even if the judge ruled his use of the Alien Enemies act was justified, he would still have to prove the gang affiliation of each detained individual—innocent until proven guilty, remember?

This is against everything you stand for. One of those deported was someone seeking legal asylum. That is the very person you famously hold your torch for.

He’s trampling all over everything that makes you, you. Worse, he’s mistreating people in your name. And, if the checks and balances designed to limit tyranny don’t hold, what’s to stop him from doing even worse?

I’ve watched helplessly as he’s taken advantage of you, threatened you, sold you to the highest bidder, and twisted everything you stand for to his agenda. It’s time to say no more! Change the locks, get a restraining order.

Seriously, you can do so much better.

Love, America

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” — The inscription on the Statue of Liberty