You might be tired of hearing about Donald Trump. That is understandable. He is definitely a Johnny-one-note. There are still miles to go before the November election. The one way to reach people who see him as a solution instead of the problem is to ask them to imagine Trump in the White House. It is when you try to imagine him there that your stomach churns.
First of all, you need to realize that nobody is going to let him tear it down and build a hotel. In the overall scheme of things, he would never be there long enough. And there are strict height restrictions on building in the District of Columbia. At best he could turn it into a two-story inn. He would call it Trump’s Inn.
There would be no children in residence while he was there. He does not seem to like children anyway.
We are not sure who he cares about. He revolted a lot of decent people when they heard him talk crudely about his daughter.
The only people he has said he likes are bikers. It was fascinating to see how he interacted with bikers early in his campaign. He enjoyed their novelty. He seemed to fit right in with them.
But then, Trump is also a misogynist. He insults all women in general and his Democratic opponent in particular. He thinks his jokes that ridicule women are amusing.
He does not joke about Mexicans, or Muslims, or blacks. He is a bigot.
He obviously has a very poor understanding of Americans. He believes they are all National Rifle Association members. He thinks they all want to go to war. He sees the daily murders of Americans in their cities as just practice.
But Trump must be a bit of a dreamer. He actually thinks all those right-wing religious cranks who normally vote the straight Republican ticket are going to support him for the presidency. Why they would support an atheist, who also supports abortion is hard to figure out. Is he dreaming?
This is not to deny that quite a few million Americans will vote for Mr. Trump in November. There are the angry, the bitter, the losers, the vulgar and just plain stupid who are more than willing to waste their vote on Mr. Trump. Why not, they deserve to be heard too.
But if you think Mr. Trump is going to win, you obviously have a very low opinion of our friends in America.
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