TRUMP & TRUMPISM, FROM A DISTANCE: WE NEED TO OWN UP TO OUR OWN MISTAKE

The Perched Eye blog is 12+ years old,  from 2009 with President Obama's first term. Our focus has been eclectic ...  the ways and directions of American politics and culture, and occasionally summarizing the potential impact of new technologies. Pericles21's observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted.  

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Donald Trump. For all our sake, it would be nice if we could just throw Trump back into the shark tank he came from and as a country just curl up in some quiet corner to lick America’s wounds from Trump’s rampages through the White House and American political history. (Trump did so much damage....,it's hard to forgive but we could ban  him from running for any public office … ever again...to his and our benefit. We owe this to ourselves, and in a way, to Trump.)

Let’s keep in mind that America (we were all, in some way at least curious) wanted to see what a businessman could do as president. We felt businessmen had an inside track on how to get things done because after all their rich lives, multiple homes, and yachts are earned and sustained by sharp eyed focus and cany insight to bottom line actions… we've heard. 

So we got (elected? maybe) Trump who most of us wanted to see apply those supposedly awesome ‘business moves’ to solve America’s problems. 

And we didn’t have to wait long to see Trump apply his impressive television “Apprentice” mojo to running America…and he did a real job on America, and on Americans. Trump nearly ran America into ruin in a random-walk presidency of self-interest, greed, smoke-and-mirrors, con-man slickness, and maybe even treason. 

Trump was America's "Big Sellout." Trump made America into a grifter's buffet. Trump saw the presidency as a 'magic hat' that made people bow.  America was Trump's open sesame and he was awful.

Within weeks after his inauguration, Trump revealed himself to be frighteningly inappropriate.

Working with Trump as president was like trying to put a leash on a rattlesnake for a walk in the park…not working. 

Trump is a middle feeder from a tank of sharks…not the best like Rex Tillerson, nor the worst, but still an atrocious fit. BUT WE ELECTED TRUMP ...SO IN A WAY WE OWE HIM...SOMETHING.

TRUMP wasn't serious about becoming President. He wanted revenge, the free advertising to be used for other money-making projects and to impress with a title on the mantlepiece.  

And Trump didn’t even know or much care about American history, especially Constitutional history. He thought the White House was just a pad with “old furniture” that he wanted to replace with “modern stuff”.  Trump's wife was equally misplaced and showed it. And his daughter thought “Senior Advisor” was a kind of Disney role where she could hawk her clothing brand and get market advantages…like in China. 

Trump's ransacking sprint through the presidency was a sad, sad moment for America. Kinda wish we could not send Trump to prison or relegate him to a laughable history bookmark. Like a middle-feeder carp, I wish for all our sake, we could just throw Trump back into the shark tank he came from and we could curl up in peace to lick America’s wounds from his rampage.