If You Live in a Red State, Trump is Your President: Not so Much in Blue States

If you read my rants frequently, you know that I never have and never will refer to Trump as my president. He is not an American by definition, and he will never serve all 340 million Americans. He will care for the citizens in states which elected him and rule over the rest.

Without a single qualification, no experience, including the time between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021, and no desire to perform the duties required by his job description, he does not deserve respect from any real American. Respect and trust must be earned, not given freely, and he has never accomplished anything in his 78 years and seven months, which resulted in a positive result for anyone other than himself.

I live in a swing/purple state. Here in Nevada, I feel a lot of tension. Trump caused more harm to America in four years than I imagined. I predicted a great division, and massive destruction. However, he was far worse than I believed possible.

His last year was his worst. He refuses to read anything. An aide was designated to read the Presidents Daily Brief and Trump would decide what level of importance each issue required. If it had no direct effect on him, he ignored the information.

This is what happened with the coronavirus. An aide informed him about the threat of a major health situation in December of 2019. Trump didn’t care. He continued to tell us “it will just go away” until March when Americans began to die.

When he was evicted from the White House on January 20, 2021, more than one million Americans had lost their lives and the economy crashed, placing our nation in a possible depression. President Biden saved our nation from two disastrous situations. Health care experts claim that least 100,000 lives might have been spared if he had acted like a real president and responded immediately.

God forbid another national emergency occurs between January 20, 2025 and January 20, 2029.

To finalize my opinion of Trump, he possesses none of the qualities I demand from our nation’s leader. He is the direct antithesis of the few great presidents in our nation’s history: Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Kennedy.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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