Iowa proves there is hope after all, because Donald Trump should never be president. He hasn’t the experience, character or judgment to lead our country. Plus he scares me.
First, he is boorish and crude (ask Megyn Kelly, Carly Fiorina, and even Hillary). He would either purposely or unintentionally offend other world leaders, which is hardly conducive to an effective foreign policy, and his pronouncements on foreign affairs are often contradictory, once saying that defeating ISIS is best left to Russia, then saying the U.S. should bomb it big-time.
He also proposes mind-bogglingly idiotic solutions to our problems. His signature issue is expelling America’s 11 million illegal aliens, and then letting “the good ones” back in. Leave aside the expense and difficulty — actually impossibility — of such massive deportation, how about we identify “the good ones” first, and save ourselves the trouble of deporting them and then re-admitting them?
But at least that’s a solution. Trump avoids specifics, incessantly claiming, “We’re gonna get it done!” “How?” one skeptical onlooker asked about an education proposal. “Just you watch,” Trump replied.
Then again, he doesn’t bother to study the issues. Every time he is exposed as so ignorant of an issue that he can’t bluff his way out of an answer he responds by saying he will seek the advice of “the very best thinkers” on that issue. Given his massive ego, even if he does listen to outside advice — a BIG “IF” — chances are he won’t follow it unless it reinforces his preconceived (mostly clueless) views. Sometimes Trump’s ignorance extends to his own proposals. His immigration plan denigrates the economic benefits of legal immigration, yet he later called for more legal immigrants.
Also, for a guy who brags about his business acumen, he has declared bankruptcy four times, and has either sued or been sued in 172 federal lawsuits (once suing the Palm Beach Airport for being too noisy). And his original fortune was given to him by his daddy.
A “friend of the working man”? When building Trump Tower, he used 200 illegal Polish immigrants who claimed Trump cheated them out of their promised wages.
Ideologically, he claims to be a Republican, yet has been pro-choice, favored universal health care, and supported the Obama stimulus package and the bank and auto industry bailouts. Also, the thrice-married Trump, who has had several mistresses, whose third wife is young enough to be his daughter, and who once said he might date his daughter if she wasn’t his daughter, is hardly representative of Republican values.
Finally, the scary part, given his ego, short temper, and long, long history of seeking revenge for every slight, real or imagined, I don’t want him anywhere near the nuclear launch codes.
