Donald Trump Continues To Cost America Global Respect
It has been eight months since Mark Rutte, Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau, Emmauel Macron, and Princess Anne were videotaped mocking President Donald Trump. Many were surprised at the video, and some even outraged, but in truth there could be no genuine surprise. Trump earned his family name firing people for ratings, and his failed Trump University and Trump Foundation were certainly no boon to his credibility. A man who openly brags about the size of genitials and resorts to Twitter rants and alliterative Kindergarten insults is a man whose mental state must be taken into serious consideration.
Earlier this year, a report indicated that in dozens of nations across Europe and the Americas, Trump is viewed as, quite frankly, a joke. His failed foreign policy with Mexico, Iran, and North Korea earned
him few friends as his disastrous domestic policy grew near-infamous. Trump cannot be blamed entirely for this. He admittedly ran for president to boost his businesses, and one who pulls ahead of their contenders in the primary would be foolhardy to turn down the highest office in the land. He is, by no means, an idiot. He took advantage of fears perpetuated by generations of destitute and delusional Americans. Nor can the burden fall entirely upon the American people: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, the 5th in a line of people to lose owing to America's faulty electoral college system, a subject for another post.
The final straw came when, after months of denying its existence, COVID-19 razed the United States, killing more than 125,000 as of this writing. Trump's daily buffoonery, from questioning the effectiveness of a flu vaccine on the virus, to suggesting injecting oneself with deadly chemicals, to bragging about his ratings, to pushing for a fatal reopening, has cost American lives and cast a doubt on America's competence in handling what should be a manageable pandemic as other nations responded swiftly and decisively.
him few friends as his disastrous domestic policy grew near-infamous. Trump cannot be blamed entirely for this. He admittedly ran for president to boost his businesses, and one who pulls ahead of their contenders in the primary would be foolhardy to turn down the highest office in the land. He is, by no means, an idiot. He took advantage of fears perpetuated by generations of destitute and delusional Americans. Nor can the burden fall entirely upon the American people: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, the 5th in a line of people to lose owing to America's faulty electoral college system, a subject for another post.
This is not the first time such an rise to power has occurred. Dark horse candidates like William Henry Harrison, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Warren G. Harding, and Jimmy Carter have set precedents of emerging into a realm one would not expect them to. However, Trump manages to combine the Reagan background with the Grant entrepreneurial ineptitude and yet succeeds not nearly as much as either. In this political landscape, America tires of career politicians for their seemingly-mundane offer of stability with a short-sighted failure to grasp its general necessity.
Despite the historical precedents, undoubtedly we will fail to learn from history and face more pandemics and incompetent executives in the future of this nation, a nation once seen as a guiding beacon of democracy and intellectualism. This is not the loathsome jab of a chronic pessimist, but the certain claim of a logical observer and scholar.
The solution, therefore, is short term. Every eligible voter must participate in the 2020 election, a battle for the nation's future and a test of its ability to recover and progress. Will Trump be remembered as a one-term president who fumbled his way through office, or a two-term president who irreparably-damaged and ultimately destroyed the United States?
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