5 – Donald Trump, Pro and Con

Donald Trump – Pro and Con

A friend and former neighbor of mine, having read my first two blogs, emailed me asking if I was for, or against, Trump. That jolted me because I’d never thought in quite those terms. I’ve been focusing on a larger screen, one with Trump as a single character in a sizeable cast.

So I zeroed in on Trump himself and ended up giving him decidedly mixed scores. He earned credit for surviving Big Media, the powerful constellation that tossed Obama on its shoulders and ran interference for him during his two terms. Now this group tackles The Donald on every play, the same bunch that happily stirred the FBI’s Russian story until it finally collapsed and turned back to bite its perpetrators.

Trump lost points for his injudicious Tweets, for his unbelievable egotism, for his speeches lapsing into trite expressions: “best ever,” “very good,” “amazing,” and so on ad nauseam, whenever talking about his efforts. The man slid even lower when I added in his often un-presidential behavior.

On the other hand, I like what Trump has done with NATO (our allies now pay billions more), with China trade, with North American trade, with the Mideast, with tax cuts, and more.

So, Former Neighbor, it turns out that I’m neither for nor against Trump. Having said that, I now go back to my big screen and spot Joe Biden standing to the left. I check him out and find I’m wasting my time.  I’m not for or against him either. Let me explain.

As I said in my first post, I’ve come to the conclusion that the guy who moves into the White House for the next four years is less important than the furniture he brings in with him. So I went to the democrats’ platform and window shopped, checking out the socialistic specials. To be honest, Bernie’s kitchen table, though very expensive, looked wobbly, and Elizabeth’s Native American bed made me shudder, yet there they were in line to be loaded into Joe’s moving van.

I will watch the election returns tomorrow with great interest.