We Have a Situation

Trump’s leadership is in disarray; never was in sharp focus.

That’s the situation and anyone who refutes that is either a blind Trump loyalist or totally out of touch with reality. We Americans expect an intelligent (OK, a few exceptions sneaked in!), well-spoken person to be the inhabitant of the White House. Our White House. The People’s House!

We don’t expect our president to be a strutting peacock on the public stage. We expect humility, seriousness and intelligence. If lacking pertinent information, comments are withheld demurely. Gravitas is the demeanor we expect. A healthy, respectful reserve before speaking one’s mind.

Instead we have a president who tweets his every thought about everything whether it is important or not. Although this has given us an inside view of a president never before experienced, we don’t like what we are seeing. Impertinent, rude, bully and all the rest. Petty, too; boy how petty his remarks have been.

Self-centered attention almost nearly. Brash claims of perfection, brilliance and accomplishment, too. All not in evidence. Just bald statements purporting to be truth. None supported by facts. Building day after day we are held waiting breathless for the next statement of nonsense.

And that, in the end, is what we now have: a nonsensical president playacting at governance.

A business man may know how to get things done, but he doesn’t always understand how to get others to go along and build a team approach to solving problems. Governing is not like leading a business organization. Authority and reporting relationships are involved in the business setting; in governance, the public is the intended object of understanding and benefit.

I often stated during the presidential campaign, that Trump did not understand policy or public policy. I also stated he didn’t understand governance.

The first few months in office have proven those points true.

So now we have someone in the office of President who is not presidential material or capability. We cannot allow this accidental president to remain in office. He must be removed if we are to maintain our reputation as a reliable world partner in peace and quality of life.

Mr. Trump is the very antithesis of everything America has stood for. For those who don’t agree with this assessment, I guess we have to leave them in their own world of disillusionment. I don’t see Trump supporters as stupid; just ignorant. They have an image in their mind of what America should be about and realize their own position is very weak in comparison, or their lifestyle is crumbling and going down the drain. I get that argument.

Their problem is they don’t understand why they feel that way. They don’t study history or science or much of anything. Life for them is on the surface. Little meaning and logic is required to be them. So their critical thinking skills are unused and untrained.

They are ignorant. Not stupid.

So the rest of us have to come to the rescue of America. The land of the free and the land of the brave have to stand up to wrest control from a madman incapable of knowing truth from fiction or self from others. In his world he is the center. In his world, he is the star of the TV show. His loss is caused by a lack of script writing. Others don’t know the roles they need to play or the script they are to read. And thus the house of cards falls to ruin.

Thank God. The end is in sight.

June 20, 2017