Donald Trump likes walls, so he plans to build one for the United States to purportedly stanch the flow of Hispanic migrants. He has already started erecting one — between voters and himself. Last Tuesday, Trump’s pernicious flamboyance with words got the better of him at a campaign rally when he mocked a physically challenged reporter of the New York Times. Mimicking Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital condition that has affected the movement of his arm and hand, Trump performed an impression of the journalist. The billionaire and reality television star aspires to make it to the White House, and his ratings, at least in the wee stages of the campaign, showed that a little more sense in speech and demeanour would have enabled him to better position himself for the highest office in the United States. Trump’s shooting-from-the-hip-disposition has not only showed him in an utterly poor light, but underscores traits of his personality that make him unfit for holding the office of the US president, who is the supreme commander of the most powerful armed forces in the world and occupies an exalted position because of the nation’s international standing and strategic depth.
Going by his campaign trail, the real estate tycoon has triggered one controversy after another — leading to an unsustained surge in his popularity ratings. But ratings alone do not a US president make. The occupant of the White House has to have gravitas and seriousness of purpose. He should not be seen to be drunk on power, Trump is soaked in arrogance and hubris. He should not shoot from the hip, Trump does that every day. He should not be a divisive figure, Trump is not only divisive but has the ability to create rifts between entire sections of the population. He should have wisdom and analytical depth to take strategically important decisions, Trump has these in abysmally low proportions.
After betraying a juvenile temperament unbecoming of a future president of the United States, Trump has belittled himself further by mimicking a journalist who had reported about some New Jersey Muslims celebrating the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre. Trump has twisted Kovaleski’s report from 2001 to say thousands rejoiced after the cataclysmic event. The social media sphere was set ablaze by Trump’s comment on Kovaleski. By this act of his, the maverick tycoon has undone whatever little reputation was left after his multiple abrasive comments — from John McCain’s prisoner of war status to remarks about a woman television journalist, that bordered on the deprave.
Attendance at Trump’s campaign rallies notwithstanding, American voters are wise enough to show him the door. He would certainly make history but by leaving the race despite a boisterous campaign sometimes mistaken for huge support.
Donald Trump likes walls, so he plans to build one for the United States to purportedly stanch the flow of Hispanic migrants. He has already started erecting one — between voters and himself. Last Tuesday, Trump’s pernicious flamboyance with words got the better of him at a campaign rally when he mocked a physically challenged reporter of the New York Times. Mimicking Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital condition that has affected the movement of his arm and hand, Trump performed an impression of the journalist. The billionaire and reality television star aspires to make it to the White House, and his ratings, at least in the wee stages of the campaign, showed that a little more sense in speech and demeanour would have enabled him to better position himself for the highest office in the United States. Trump’s shooting-from-the-hip-disposition has not only showed him in an utterly poor light, but underscores traits of his personality that make him unfit for holding the office of the US president, who is the supreme commander of the most powerful armed forces in the world and occupies an exalted position because of the nation’s international standing and strategic depth.
Going by his campaign trail, the real estate tycoon has triggered one controversy after another — leading to an unsustained surge in his popularity ratings. But ratings alone do not a US president make. The occupant of the White House has to have gravitas and seriousness of purpose. He should not be seen to be drunk on power, Trump is soaked in arrogance and hubris. He should not shoot from the hip, Trump does that every day. He should not be a divisive figure, Trump is not only divisive but has the ability to create rifts between entire sections of the population. He should have wisdom and analytical depth to take strategically important decisions, Trump has these in abysmally low proportions.
After betraying a juvenile temperament unbecoming of a future president of the United States, Trump has belittled himself further by mimicking a journalist who had reported about some New Jersey Muslims celebrating the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre. Trump has twisted Kovaleski’s report from 2001 to say thousands rejoiced after the cataclysmic event. The social media sphere was set ablaze by Trump’s comment on Kovaleski. By this act of his, the maverick tycoon has undone whatever little reputation was left after his multiple abrasive comments — from John McCain’s prisoner of war status to remarks about a woman television journalist, that bordered on the deprave.
Attendance at Trump’s campaign rallies notwithstanding, American voters are wise enough to show him the door. He would certainly make history but by leaving the race despite a boisterous campaign sometimes mistaken for huge support.
