With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds....
-- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
-- Sign on Harry Truman's desk reflecting that he is responsible for all his words and all that happens on his watch.
The President...can't pass the buck to anybody.
-- Harry S Truman, Farewell address to the American people, 1953
Lincoln's and Truman's remarks are illustrations of leadership and taking full ownership -- its favorable and pleasurable effects as well as it's dissatisfying and painful ones -- of having been bestowed the privilege of leading. If one isn't willing to own and step up to the good and the bad of leadership, most especially leadership of a nation, to say nothing of the U.S. -- many don't -- fine, but then don't seek or accept it. Few things are easier to do than (1) acknowledge that one isn't fit to POTUS and, in turn, (2) not seek the United States' presidency.
When the "joint's not "jumpin,'" is not the DJ's inapt music choice to blame? Of course it is. When a restaurant obtains unfavorable reviews, is it not the chef's cooking that's to blame? Of course, it is. When the sports team isn't winning, is it not the coach's fault? It, of course, is. Who bears the burden for a schools flagging performance? The principal.
"Everyday" Americans, professionals and tradesmen alike, routinely bear the consequences of their actions and inaction. It's high time time Trump to take responsibility for his, and it's way past high time that Americans, regardless of whether Trump does, make him accountable for his words and deeds.
You could fill Trump with yeast and helium and still he wouldn't rise to any occasion as a POTUS should.
-- Xelor