Would You Hire This Man?

If Donald Trump applied for a job with your company and the hiring decision was yours, would you hire him?  Set aside the whole idea of qualifications (which is another post entirely).  Would you hire someone with his character?  I wouldn't.  My company does background checks and they look at things like legal actions, credit history, and the person's reasons for leaving their previous jobs.

So we hired a president who, in his first 100 days, has lied to his employers (the American people) multiple times, been sued many times for not living up to his agreements, and is so egotistical and self-promoting that it is simply nauseating. What is really troubling is that, when someone calls him on it, he either tries to discredit his accuser or just ignores it entirely like this type of behavior is acceptable.  He doesn't even try to explain his lie.  He just moves on to the next one like it never happened.

So here we are, almost five months since this man was elected.  He's under investigation for collusion with Russia, obstruction of justice, and who knows what else that we haven't even heard about yet.  This man makes Richard Nixon look pretty good.

Speaking of Richard Nixon, I remember the outrage that everyone felt when he was accused of the Watergate crimes in the early 1970's.  Where is that outrage today?  We have a president who may be guilty of things far worse, yet we are just sitting by and watching to see what happens.  

Maybe American citizens' idea of right and wrong has become a little less clearly defined than it was in the early 1970's.  Maybe we are more tolerant of behaviors that would have resulted in severe sanctions in 1972.  Maybe our views of right and wrong are more elastic today.  I don't know, but I want to know.  I know I have to follow the same laws just as strictly today as I did in 1972.  Why shouldn't my president be held to the same standard?  I just don't understand it.

I think Donald Trump was elected because his campaign people came up with a great slogan -- "Making America Great Again."  And that's the only reason.  After all, who wouldn't want to make America great?  And by adding the word "Again" he was saying that America wasn't as great as it had once been.  The message that people heard was that America was once a great nation and it wasn't great anymore, but electing him would restore our prosperity, worldwide dominance, and our position as the great influencer of world affairs.  It's a great promise, but it's just an empty one.  The world has changed and we can't be all those things anymore.  Sorry, but the world has changed.  It's not like it used to be.  There's a new reality and we have to learn to deal with it and find our place in it.

What we don't have to deal with, however, is a leader who puts his ego before our country, abuses his position for personal gain, and then just lies to us and tells us he's making our lives better.  It just doesn't add up and we need to call him on it.

To sum it up, I wouldn't hire Donald Trump.  Even if his qualifications for a job were a perfect fit, his character is a huge problem.  He is not the person I would want to represent my business.  And he is not the person I want to represent my country.  We are not like him and we shouldn't allow the rest of the world to think that we are.