You have to wonder, as we approach 100 Days, what Donald Trump was thinking when he ran for president. Or if he was thinking at all.
Apparently, he thought being president was going to be easier than his old life. You know, when he could only pretend to work.
This eye-opener from former Missouri secretary of state Jason Kander tells the sordid tale:
POTUS learned this morning that 2 soldiers had died in combat. Then he whined about having to work a lot, said he misses his "old life." pic.twitter.com/p9vEjnOPVr
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— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) April 28, 2017
In perhaps the most revealing interview Donald Trump has given other than the unintelligible disaster with the AP Trump told Reuters,
“I loved my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.”
As George Takei acerbically remarked, “For real.”
We’ll never know why he thought it was going to be easy. Probably for the same reason he didn’t know healthcare was complicated or that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
It is impossible not to agree with former Guantanamo prosecutor Col. Morris Davis, who also offered a solution:
Polls show that most Americans miss 5-Deferment Don living his old life, too … and there is a win-win solution. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/1duckDaq5Y
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) April 28, 2017
If serial draft dodger Donald Trump’s deplorable attitude towards the death of two service members doesn’t say enough, his attitude towards work says the rest.
If Donald Trump thinks he is the only one who misses his old life, he’s mistaken. The majority of Americans do, and we’d be perfectly content if he were to choose to go back to it and leave the running of the country to adults.
It is not the job, as Trump has learned to his cost, for a lazy, petulant man-child.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
