The thoughts expressed here are solely my own.
A few people have pointed out on social media that we should
stop attacking his policies and give them time to work their “magic.” Fair
enough. (Although nearly every economist, with any credibility at all, is
saying the results are going to be terrible. And that’s just on the economic
actions! How about that foreign policy?)
Let’s focus on Trump, the man, then.
What do we know about him?
He was born into wealth and yet claims that he built his
entire fortune himself, pulling himself up by his bootstraps. He says he was an
incredible student at Fordham University and then at Wharton Business school
where he graduated with a BS in economics in 1968. His grades have never been
seen by the public and for someone who leans heavily to the vainglorious, I can
only imagine how awful they must have been, or he would have been waving them
around for all to see. (He claims to have won his golf club “championship” 18
times over the years. Does everyone else just not show up?)
He claims that his track record as a businessman gives him
incredible insight into how the economy works and is best maximized. For the
record, his various enterprises have filed for bankruptcy six times, including
a casino. Casinos are among the most lucrative businesses in the world because
the house always wins. The only way to bankrupt one is through horrible
mismanagement.
He claims to be a devout Christian yet in one interview was
unable to name a single Bible verse by which he likes to live. He has been
married four times and has proved to be a serial philanderer during each of
those. He has been adjudicated as a sexual abuser and ordered to pay millions
to E. Jean Carroll. He has lied over 30,000 times in public and each has been
documented by the press. His actions clearly don’t match up to the common
definition of a Christian. They also don’t line up well with commonly accepted
moral standards, for that matter.
He claims to be a patriot and yet he managed to receive five
deferments from the military draft during the Vietnam war, the first four for education
and the fifth for a medical condition of bone spurs. (The details surrounding
this are murky and unclear.) He has been quoted as not wanting to attend
veteran funerals because “those guys are all losers!” Unlike other Presidents,
he has been unwilling to spend time welcoming injured veterans home from
overseas. (He allegedly attended one ceremony early in his first term and said
he’d never do it again.)
He claims that our country needs to abolish its DEI efforts,
and signed executive orders to do so, because they’re biased against some
people (white folks) and that merit and competence will rule the way people are
promoted in all government roles. He then appointed administration officials based
on their loyalty to him instead of their merit, background, and competence. The
Secretaries of Defense and Health and Human Services are just two glaring
examples. He has fired many people in top positions of the government, simply
because he sees them as disloyal to him and his cause.
With these examples, I believe it is possible to define Donald
Trump. He is a lying, philandering, ignorant, immoral, narcissistic, racist, megalomaniac.
That’s who we’ve elected to the most powerful position in
the world.
No wonder the world is wondering what happened to the United
States. I wonder that, myself.
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