Retired and unemployed, most mornings I enjoy the privilege
of watching C-SPAN’s
Washington Journal along with a good cup of coffee. All too frequently, I hear
people, calling into the program saying, in effect, “Quit picking on our
President, Donald Trump. Give him a chance. He’s doing a great job. He’s
getting things done. He ‘tells it like it is’, etc.” I’m writing this in
response to say, “Hogwash”! It may be true that he is being “picked on”,
especially by the news media, about which I will talk another day, but the
other complaints are downright inaccurate—wrong.
Before going one step further, let’s agree on one very basic
and important fact—a fact which I sincerely believe is grossly overlooked by
most of us and never discussed. The Presidency of The United States of America
is one of, if not the most, important and responsible positions of leadership in
the world today—more than any international corporation, more than, arguably,
any other country, the incumbency of which demands the very utmost of personal
and professional skills, including but not limited to honesty, integrity, intelligence,
knowledge and character, in conjunction with the requisite diplomatic, management
and leadership abilities enabling one to successfully lead and manage such a
vast organization. Our government, The United States of America is no small
organization despite the best efforts of some politicians and others (Grover
Norquist, for example, wanting to “shrink it down to the size where we can
drown it in the bathtub”) to the contrary. If anyone wants to discuss our
presidency, they must recognize its immense responsibility. It is no grocery
store or shop on the corner.
Donald Trump is not being picked on. One does not have to
accuse him of anything or listen to anyone else who does—especially the news
media. All one has to do is stop, look, and listen to him in order to
comprehend who and what he is. As they say, “It’s a ‘No Brainer’”. Let’s face it.
We made a mistake in electing him to office. It is patently obvious that Donald
Trump does not have the necessary qualifications indicated above to hold
office. He is not a leader; he is not a manager; he is not a diplomat; he is
not knowledgeable; and, for that matter, he is not a businessman—not a
successful one at least. His many legal encounters and bankruptcies of record documents
this; and when all this “shakes out”, I think we will find he and his various organizations
are “over their heads” in debt, if not bankrupt. If our president, Donald John
Trump, is being “picked on”, he is doing it to himself. If he is continually
being shot in the foot, it is he who is holding the gun.
Before closing this, I want to briefly discuss the election,
November, 2016. I submit to you: The people of this country didn’t have a
chance. They (We) didn’t have the chance of a gasoline dog trying to go thru
hell of electing a candidate who would represent the best interests of “We the
People”. As I wrote back then, our election of Hillary Clinton would be a
disaster; our election of Donald Trump would be a catastrophy. What we have
wrought is before us. We are in the midst of a catastrophy. We only had two
choices—and very poor ones at that. I’ll tell you. I voted for Hillary. Come hell
or high water, we can wade through a disaster. Our nation has done so many
times before, but only time will tell on this one—a catastrophy is another
matter.
One last thing: Our people elected Donald Trump because they
viewed him as “one of us”. He talked like us; he “told it like it is”. But they
were mistaken. Real leaders in a huge complex world such as the one in which we
live cannot be like us. They don’t necessarily think like us; they don’t always
talk like us; and we cannot always talk like them. If we had their
qualifications, well, we would be one of them—you think? Donald Trump is not
one of them either. Neither do I think he is one of us; but only time will tell
who and what he really is; and only time will tell if and when we can survive
this mess in which we find ourselves.
These are my views. I’m interested in yours.
Ronald Miller
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