...if he leads like he spoke during his almost vanilla acceptance speech early this morning, he will be at least a middle-of-the-road president who can at least keep America on track and remaining as the most powerful country in the world.
Oh, how things have changed rather quickly. In a short nine month span we have seen allegations – which seem to be rather true – that Russia at least meddled in, if not flat out influenced, the 2016 presidential election. Meetings between Trump, his family, his advisors and Russian officials happened. That tidbit alone should send up thousands of red flags but through Trump's continual and almost masterful way of distracting the country via his Twitter tirades, we are instead now a divided nation over NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem (which itself is utter bullshit due to the fact that NFL players didn't even come on to the field during the anthem for some games until only a few years ago.)
This summer alone we've had alt-right (Neo-Nazi) protests take place on American soil with Trump failing to stand up against their hate-speech. We've seen women's rights be stripped with employers now able to opt-out of providing birth control coverage in insurance plans on the grounds of their religious beliefs. We've seen a president who has failed to help residents of Puerto Rico and instead opted to call San Juan's mayor "nasty" and that she exhibits "poor leadership".
Rather than unite in the face of tragedy and take a stand against hate speech, Trump has instead found a way to further divide an already divided country on nearly every issue.
But that, I feel, was his goal all along. As a private businessman, he likely sees the presidency as yet another avenue to eventually profit from. Whether it's his foreign-made Make America Great Again hats or conducting foreign policy meetings at his New Jersey golf courses or his Florida resort, he is mixing government business with his private business ventures. How he is still managing to get away with his is beyond me.
His continued cries of "Fake News" are yet another issue. Whenever he disagrees with factual new reporting from a news outlet that isn't Fox News Channel, it's fake news. It's yet another tactic in dividing the country's citizens. It's not just left versus right, it's friend versus friend, neighbor versus neighbor and America versus the World.
His continued threats toward obviously insane North Korea leader Kim Jong Un could very well lead us to a short-lived nuclear war at the worst or World War III at best. Trump continually chooses divisiveness over diplomacy. He chooses divisiveness over unity. He chooses to put himself first because he knows that he and his family will ultimately reap huge profits from his time as president.
If we make it to the 2020 presidential election without starting a wide-scale war, I can only hope that Americans have opened their eyes to the fact that the man who promised to Make America Great Again spent four years tearing down years of progress so he could have even a chance to live up to his 2016 campaign slogan. A man with no previous experience in government, as we now know, has no business having the most powerful political position in the country.
To the 49% of American voters who are responsible for electing Donald Trump as America's president: YOU WERE DUPED. You believed a man who is nothing but a divisive, pathological liar hellbent on making himself richer on the backs of people whom he doesn't give two shits about. You believed lies and became a vehicle for his hatred of minorities, women and anyone whose beliefs don't fall squarely in line with his own. The 49% of Americans who voted Trump bought a truckload of lies because they couldn't bring themselves to trust a smart and experienced woman to be president. In short, the 49% of republican voters in this country are no better than the hate-filled, racist president we are now stuck with.
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