Expected no less
When Donald Trump
stated 4 years ago that he would only accept the results of the election if he
won, we should have taken his word for it and believed that if a situation
warranted his loss he would be curmudgeonly, nasty, unsportsmanlike, and completely
intolerable.
Here we are, two
weeks after the elections, having been trounced in both the popular vote and
the electoral college, he is nowhere near accepting the fact that he lost to
the man he nicknamed Sleepy Joe. There is no telling what it would take for him
to accept defeat, but such is the character of a man of no virtue worthy of
emulation that became the 45th President of the United States of
America.
A nasty piece of work
He has railed with
disgusting vituperation, maligning the people and institutions that have
volunteered to determine the express will of the people that have regardless of
the numbers he has now, rejected him by giving the majority of their support to
Joe Biden. That he cannot accept the fact that he has ended up second best in a
country where he incessantly stoked division rather than unity just beggars
belief.
When Chris Krebs, the
Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency contradicted the
president by categorically stating that the elections were the most secure ever
in history, he was terminated with immediate effect. Donald Trump is flailing
and fuming, poisoning the waters, and undermining the sacrosanct traditions of
the country for his own personal ends, whilst complete oblivious of how good
the country has been to him and recognising the honour of being asked to
serve.
He did not rise to
lead
Some even suggest
that were it not for the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, he would have won the
election. I beg to differ, being president is not an easy throne, and though
some have taken office without as much as an event in their tenure that they
have been unremarkable, the test of leadership is the ability and capacity to
rise to the challenge and the occasion. Donald Trump neither acknowledged the
severity of the pandemic nor rose to the challenge of managing and containing
it.
With a death toll
exceeding 248,000 on his watch, justice would not have been done if he were
rewarded with another term after that debacle of indifference, incompetence, apathy
and quite possibly sociopathy. He governed like a reality television celebrity,
campaigning and holding rallies with his incoherent spiel from the time of his
inauguration to the day before the election, speak mainly to his base rather than
to the broader American people.
Good riddance to
rubbish
I cannot wait to see
him gone, he was a bad omen to the world even though the religious right and right-wing
groups appeared to embrace him. He represented the basest of our instincts, the
least palatable expression, a manifestation of megalomania and ego, mirroring
the worst of values, conduct, etiquette, and manners. If you did not want to
try to be good, considerate, courteous, respectful, understanding, and accepting
of others, Donald Trump gave you how to channel the vicissitudes of inhumanity
without scruples.
His complete humiliation
cannot be soon enough whenever he concedes or he is bundled out of the White
House. For an example should be made that kind of person for a lesson that we
should always strive to be good-natured, kind, empathetic, engaging and nice.
To his sort, a chapter must be closed in the history of the United States of
America and Good Riddance will not have fully given vent to the glee of his
defeat.
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