Maybe I felt the need to write this for myself sort of a deep clean if you will.
I remember driving from Chicago to South Bend, Indiana with my then 26 year old son to watch Miami play Notre Dame. At that time the polls had Hillary winning a landslide. As we drove thru the heart of Gary, Indiana I looked at my son and said Trump is going to win. He told me I was nuts and asked me why. I said "look around you these are all boarded up manufacturing factories." As far as the eye could see were abandoned factories. Sad really and I was right, he won with those very voters. Throughout his Presidency Trump did speak truth to many issues that have plagued and harmed our country for decades. Many of which swept under the rug by Congress and Presidents for decades. China ripping us off, NAFTA costing us manufacturing and jobs shipped overseas, Border Security and a broken immigration system, allies taking advantage of the US taxpayer, red tape throughout government that bogged down efficiencies, a corporate tax rate not competitive with other countries acting as an incentive to incorporate outside the USA, bad deals with Iran, countries not paying their fair share of UN dues or Nato promises, US military protecting other countries for essentially free. Many of these (there are more of course) can not be argued as they are all very true and no one can tell me otherwise.
Then throughout his 4 years the DC network did everything possible to go after him. I won't get into those details because they are not the point of my post. We all know what transpired for 4+ years. I am sure Trump was frustrated and angry the entire time.
The post is about Trump and how he responded to this. His economy was booming and all sectors were doing well by nearly every matrix.
But Trump continued to make enemies, continued to make it all about him, continued to embellish and exaggerate, continued to play right into the hands of his opponents. He couldn't help himself. He would skirt the edges of acceptable Presidential behavior thinking he was smarter then everyone else.
As with all first time Presidents there is a growing curve to learn how to be the President. I don't feel Trump ever grew into a President. I never liked the Twitter business it's not Presidential. I suppose it could be but not for a guy like him. Some of his attacks like those on McCain were repulsive. It's one thing to go after a Senator n policy but not on his POW time in Vietnam. Trump would repeat this mistake time and time again across both sides of the aisle.
Then came COVID-19. This pandemic allowed for ZERO errors! No one could stop people from getting sick nor dying but the communication to the citizens and the game plan had to be perfect. I often ask my family if it would have killed him to jerk out a tear on TV about Covid? His administration actually did some good things with attacking this unexpected virus but his daily 5:00 briefings he made about him. He pretended to be a scientist, pretended to be a doctor, attacked his team routinely, and fed the citizens BS nearly daily. We aren't stupid and any President that thinks so is dead in the water.
Capping it off was the election. It's true that certain States cut corners using Covid as their excuse. Not debatable. In the end they got him. Yet once again Trump did not act Presidential, thought himself almighty, communicated horribly, sent out a messages that inflamed the situation. So in the end 4 years later Trump allowed all the people who went after him to be proven right. To me, that's just dumb and so egotistical I barely have words for what happened at our Capital last week. It was disgusting to me and anyone in America,.
I remember driving from Chicago to South Bend, Indiana with my then 26 year old son to watch Miami play Notre Dame. At that time the polls had Hillary winning a landslide. As we drove thru the heart of Gary, Indiana I looked at my son and said Trump is going to win. He told me I was nuts and asked me why. I said "look around you these are all boarded up manufacturing factories." As far as the eye could see were abandoned factories. Sad really and I was right, he won with those very voters. Throughout his Presidency Trump did speak truth to many issues that have plagued and harmed our country for decades. Many of which swept under the rug by Congress and Presidents for decades. China ripping us off, NAFTA costing us manufacturing and jobs shipped overseas, Border Security and a broken immigration system, allies taking advantage of the US taxpayer, red tape throughout government that bogged down efficiencies, a corporate tax rate not competitive with other countries acting as an incentive to incorporate outside the USA, bad deals with Iran, countries not paying their fair share of UN dues or Nato promises, US military protecting other countries for essentially free. Many of these (there are more of course) can not be argued as they are all very true and no one can tell me otherwise.
Then throughout his 4 years the DC network did everything possible to go after him. I won't get into those details because they are not the point of my post. We all know what transpired for 4+ years. I am sure Trump was frustrated and angry the entire time.
The post is about Trump and how he responded to this. His economy was booming and all sectors were doing well by nearly every matrix.
But Trump continued to make enemies, continued to make it all about him, continued to embellish and exaggerate, continued to play right into the hands of his opponents. He couldn't help himself. He would skirt the edges of acceptable Presidential behavior thinking he was smarter then everyone else.
As with all first time Presidents there is a growing curve to learn how to be the President. I don't feel Trump ever grew into a President. I never liked the Twitter business it's not Presidential. I suppose it could be but not for a guy like him. Some of his attacks like those on McCain were repulsive. It's one thing to go after a Senator n policy but not on his POW time in Vietnam. Trump would repeat this mistake time and time again across both sides of the aisle.
Then came COVID-19. This pandemic allowed for ZERO errors! No one could stop people from getting sick nor dying but the communication to the citizens and the game plan had to be perfect. I often ask my family if it would have killed him to jerk out a tear on TV about Covid? His administration actually did some good things with attacking this unexpected virus but his daily 5:00 briefings he made about him. He pretended to be a scientist, pretended to be a doctor, attacked his team routinely, and fed the citizens BS nearly daily. We aren't stupid and any President that thinks so is dead in the water.
Capping it off was the election. It's true that certain States cut corners using Covid as their excuse. Not debatable. In the end they got him. Yet once again Trump did not act Presidential, thought himself almighty, communicated horribly, sent out a messages that inflamed the situation. So in the end 4 years later Trump allowed all the people who went after him to be proven right. To me, that's just dumb and so egotistical I barely have words for what happened at our Capital last week. It was disgusting to me and anyone in America,.