; Whereas the current President of the United States claimed that a Hispanic Federal jurist could not preside over a court proceeding to which he was a defendant accused of civil fraud because He’s a Mexican. ; Whereas in January 2018 the current President of the United States is reported to have inquired of his advisors: Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? , referring to persons from countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Central and South America; Whereas, on August 15, 2017, the current President of the United States said he regarded as some very fine people, the neo-Nazis, White supremacists, and Ku Klux Klansmen who descended on the peaceful community of Charlottesville, Virginia, to advocate racism and were met by peaceful counter-protestors; Whereas in his continuous and determined effort to exacerbate ethnic tensions and racial divisions in the body politic, the current President of the United States is revealing himself to be an unwitting instrument of the plan hatched in Moscow by Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin to interfere in the 2016 presidential campaign to help elect his preferred candidate and sow discord and division among the American people; and Whereas statements and actions of the current President of the United States demean the office he holds and falls short of the standard set by the 16th President, whose administration was devoted to unity, healing, and ending racial division and who famously foretold in his March 4, 1861, Inaugural Address the reasons why the efforts of the current President of the United States are destined to fail: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. : Now, therefore, be it