I am not surprised at his priorities, as much as I despise all that he hopes to do, as well as the entire Republican agenda. His tax plan takes the corporate tax reduction way too far and favors the rich far too much. His domestic policies are racial biased and he has done nothing but hurt our efforts to bolster education and infrastructure.
Where I disagree with the Trump administration is his complete lack of leadership. His public childish rants, his threats and attacks on anyone he dislikes, his revolving door approach to hiring and firing his closest advisers and his inability to work with anyone who disagrees with him. In fact, any fact that disagrees with his line of thinking is completely dismissed as "fake news," even when it is obvious it is true. He is crass, vulgar and completely self-absorbed.
Whether he doesn't appreciate or even understand the inherit leadership vacuum he has created, he has led this nation down into the gutter by communicating not with press conferences but tweets in social media. He has taken the gap between red and blue and made it a chasm. He has made political preconceived notions and cynicism to outright hatred of all those who disagree the order of the day.
He embodies the kind of crass, vulgar, ugly American qualities that the rest of the world despises.
He needs to take stock of his leadership skills. He needs to see how his behavior affects the nation...and to a certain extent...the world. He needs to hire some close advisers with leadership skills. It wouldn't hurt if he even adopted a little positivism and optimism.
Kennedy once told the nation he believed in us and we would go to the moon...and we did. Obama stated that he believed in this nation and told us we could cure cancer in ten years.
Trump is too busy attacking his enemies. All he does is state not what revolves around the nation, but himself. He will make us great again. He will win so much we will get tired of winning. It's the Trump opera...me, me, me, me, me.
"It took Trump less than a year to destroy America's good name around the globe." "Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America: casual racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandizement, vulgarity on an epic scale; he is the ugly American excel-sis."
Paul Thomas has it right...and we are stuck with the ugly American for at least three more years. Lord help us.
And that's the world...the "World According to Kimba." Thanks for reading.
