This thread is an open invitation to anyone who feels they articulate what Trump has done or is trying to do that concerns them.
It is not a thread to call him a bunch of names and declare yourself victorious.
I am genuinelt curious what elements of this presidency have people alarmed.
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1. The seemingly thoughtlessness in the way he runs the government.
For example, we have numerous instances of very high up government officials discovering they are fired VIA a tweet. We have instances of policies being announced by tweet catching federal government employees off guard and by surprise. We had the president announce Putin is invited to the whitehouse without even running it by people like the head of DNI, we have numerous reports that officials are told to not discuss topics with the president that might upset him, such as Russia interfering in the 2020 election. And I think any honest person has to admit that these few instances I came up with off the top of my head are but the tip of the iceberg. If anyone is really interested I could spend an hour googling and refreshing my memory and come up with dozens.
The response from Trump supporters in general is "well Trump can invite Putin if he wants! Do you want a war with Russia or something? At least he's trying to build a relationship!" and this is the kind of thing that completely misses what I'm saying. As of yet, I haven't specified the problems with his policies, many of which I disagree with. I'm specifying very clearly the dangerous way in which he goes about them.
At the very minimum, every american should be able to expect a few very basic things out of any president/administration, regardless of policies, regardless of political party. Things such as:
- An honest to goodness best attempt at understanding the situation at hand. Read the daily briefs, attend meetings etc.
- All decisions, big and small, should be considered carefully and discussed critically between the president and his staff so that when decisions are made and policy implemented they are done so with the absolute best attempt.
- Positions should be filled with people that know the subject, with experience, be it in government or the private sector, who will work for the betterment of the country, and who will provide thoughtful advice to the president, even if the president disagrees with said advice.
- A president who attempts to be as honest as a politician/leader can be. Of course politicians will try to focus on the positives of their policy and play down the negatives etc, and the president can't tweet out the launch codes, but at the very least we should expect for him to not tell us obvious lies to our face.
I can't see in any meaningful way how it appears that President Trump has considered these duties as part of being POTUS and I can think of numerous ways, such as the ones listed above, that he is falling terribly short of these bare essentials that we should expect.
To be Continued...
