DONALD TRUMP IS NOT ABLE TO BE “PRESIDENTIAL”

…The “unpresidential” Donald Trump

 

Trump may attempt to be “presidential”, but it will never last for long.

 

When Trump pushed out his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and replaced him with a more experienced “Convention Manager”, that wasn’t enough.  Even making his victory speeches shorter, more professional and his one-time changing of his reference of “Lyin Ted” to a more mundane “Ted Cruz”, that wasn’t enough.  Trump’s senior campaign adviser, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who later appeared on CNN’s “New Day”, when answering whether the “Lyin Ted” reference was going to be removed from Trump’s vocabulary, she answered, “I wouldn’t be too sure to erase that.”   She then she added: “But my guess is it’ll still pop up from time to time,” and of course it did, time and time again until Cruz finally dropped out.

 

Back then on Morning Joe, when Bloomberg News’ John Heilemann was asked for his comment about the presumed death of the “Old Trump”, all Heilemann would offer was the following statement on Trump’s victory speech: “No steaks were sold.”  This of course was a reference to the display of steaks, wine, bottled water and other Trump-labeled items that were displayed after a previous primary win.  (Interesting that they were all Trump items that were not Trump produced, just other companies’ Trump labeled products.)

 

Even though Trump’s trademark Twitter feed had temporarily backed off for most of a day after the New York primary win, the following Trump Tweet appeared at 8:42AM Wednesday: “Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race. Now all he can do is be a spoiler, never a nice thing to do. I will beat Hillary!”  Trump couldn’t then remain presidential for more than 24 hours.

 

Trump is so lucky and he doesn’t seem to realize, or to admit it.  That luck is that his success and strength to date was early on because the other candidates just didn’t take him seriously.  Then, when they finally did, the milk was out of the cow, and it was too late to stop him.  (Much of this was also because of all the free publicity Trump has received.  Thank you mainstream media.)  Those that were left, were so weak as they were all those establishment politicians that the angry Republican and Independent voters have hated for years. This is why Trump ended up being the GOP nominee by default.  And he did it with more primary votes than any previous GOP candidate.

 

But Trump isn’t the only one in the race that has had some credibility issue, from a different point-of-view.

 

Hillary also had her credibility issues, much of it like with Trump, which comes from being in the public eye for so many decades.

 

Actually, both Hillary and “The Donald” have been in the public’s face since the 1980’s, but both for different reasons.  Trump was the New York builder and celebrity and Hillary was the First Lady of Arkansas and then of the United States, then she was a New York Senator, and she ran against Barack Obama, and finally was the Secretary of State.  In all this time, both of these individuals have been under two different public microscopes.

 

Donald Trump was the New York tabloid king and big corporate spender with his name on everything from skyscrapers, to casinos, to hotels & golf courses, to airlines, and to ribeye steaks.  Then he had his own successful reality TV show.  Hillary, who on the other hand, has scared the hell out of the Republicans going back to when she took on the nation’s health care issues, (Remember Hillarycare?).  This was while her husband was our US president.  But the GOP has been after both of the Clinton’s with a number of GOP failed conspiracy theories since the early 1990’s.

 

Now these two very different individuals will be pitted against each other.

 

This should be interesting, as there is quite a large amount of video where Donald Trump was a big fan of the Hillary’s, and those videos show Donald talking about how smart is Hillary.  That was also when Trump was a liberal Democrat that supported a woman’s right to make their own health care choices.

 

Since the final two nominees are going to be Hillary against “The Donald”, Hillary should be able eat Donald alive in the debates.  No matter how “presidential” Trump tries to become, his proposals from Mexico paying for The Wall, to replacing Obamacare with something better and cheaper, to getting rid of ISIL and to reversing all the trade deals and bringing back jobs, all those Trump ideas have holes the size of the Grand Canyon.  Hopefully, Hillary will be able to point all that out.

 

Hillary has proved that she can’t be anything but a practical political pragmatist.   She did this by not competing with Bernie Sanders’s big visionary offers because she doesn’t believe that’s the way it would work in dealing with the Republican US Congress.

 

Whether you believe in or support Hillary, the reality is that having either current Democratic candidate in the White House would be better for the country than a Trump.  John Kasich would have been a reasonable choice, but unfortunately, he had no chance to stay in the race.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2016