Barbra Streisand doesn’t believe the United States could withstand another term of a Donald Trump presidency.
In a Super Tuesday opinion piece for Variety, the singer and actress warned voters that President Trump is destroying both the U.S. and Americans themselves. She blamed the president for an uptick in people who are “anxious and depressed” and argued that he is incapable of combating the potential coronavirus outbreak.
“Since 2016, we’ve been dragged down into the mud of Trump’s swamp,” Streisand wrote. “He has demolished our standing in the world with his laughable boasts and breathtaking ignorance. He has put the security of this country, and our planet, in a precarious position by abandoning the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction … so reckless that he almost started a war.”
She continued, “Now we’re facing another kind of war, against the coronavirus. Trump got rid of our pandemic specialist two years ago and has defunded the Centers for Disease Control because he continues to ignore science. We can’t go on like this. It’s too dangerous.”
Streisand claimed that the president “thinks the rules don’t apply to him” and that he created a culture of “paranoia, hypocrisy and lies” in the executive branch. She also argued that Trump shouldn’t get credit for the strengths of his presidency, including the strong economy.
“Trump can never live up to Obama’s legacy, so he’s trying to erase it. He inherited a growing economy and now claims credit for it, saying it’s the best in history … but that’s another lie,” Streisand wrote.
She urged voters to be active in the 2020 election to ensure that Trump will not win in November, writing, “In this upcoming election, we must bring back dignity and grace. We must care about the facts, the planet, each other and the least fortunate among us. We need a new America, without pollution, without obscenities, without insults, without revenge. We need to restore the nobility of truth … and only then will America be great again.”
Streisand did not endorse a particular Democrat for the nomination, but she did argue on Twitter that Joe Biden is the candidate Trump fears most. The actress has been a vocal critic of Trump’s presidency since he took office. In October, Streisand tweeted a cartoon of Nancy Pelosi impaling Trump with her stiletto heel.
