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Our position as citizens with several freedoms should not be overlooked or compromised while bringing in a new national leader. Over the past 5 years our country has been brutally shocked, and beyond what the represented feel is under control, a consistent cycle of terror is exactly what our current President provides in an attempt to make us feel safe. So why are we threatened with a second term of uncomfortable shenanigans? President Donald J. Trump has successfully revived the identity of what used to be the majority by default, and he has unfortunately built a fortress impenetrable even by the obvious truth. The President has found himself in several situations that was either caused by his pertinacious outlook or completely unshakable in nature. You would think that taking such a grand step of leadership would cause one to tread lightly in action, but President Trump instead chooses to maneuver through his mistakes instead of around.

Women have come a long way as far as stepping up and stepping out, but just because they often find a voice does not mean that the disrespect inflicted upon them has diminished. The President is one to make a reoccurring contribution. The most infamous occurrence came from when President Trump met up with television personality Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood” on the set of “Days of Our Lives” where Trump made a cameo. A recording was made in 2005 of their explicit conversation, and it was re-published during his campaign in the October of 2016. The full recording detailed several unruly comments about women both in general and Trump’s personal encounters with some who were named. Here is a snippet from the unedited transcription provided by Penn Bullock of The NewYork Times:

Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
Bush: Whatever you want.
Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.


 Not exactly the behavior to be praised, but it is still hard to hear anyone, let along the President, allude that fame allows you to do anything you want to a woman. In response to the decade-old atrocity, Trump sends out a mere apology for his actions. He then plays on the heartstrings of the attentive ears by proclaiming his lack of perfection. Some would say that the apology was unjust. Maggie Haberman from The New York Times revealed that before the apology, there was a message of “defiance”. In her eyes, as well as many others, the apology was not genuine, “and it did not reflect the several hours of conference calls and strategy meetings among his top aides, who were at first stunned and then nearly paralyzed by the revelation of the tape, which they worried would be fatal to his White House hopes.” However, in result, an apology is all his supporters needed (if needed at all).

Even if you haven’t turned on your television in a while, you still may have heard the words “Trump” and “white nationalism” in the same sentence. It is no secret that Donald Trump has had a tricky past of unapologetically racist comments. In fact, he has infuriated a number of groups including largely resected political figures since the beginning of his campaign. He first began in 2011 after announcing his interest in running for president. Within that time frame, Trump began something called the “Birther Movement” where he repeatedly harassed former President Barack Obama to release his birth certificate. Although a bold publicity move, in 2016 he went as far as to claim Obama to be the founder of ISIS purely off of the fact that his middle name is “Hussein”. ABC News reported the “Birther Movement” timeline ending it with statements of Trump briefly admitting that Obama is a US citizen, but blaming Hillary Clinton for the initiation of the movement. He goes on to say: “Now, not to mention her in the same breath, but Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy," he said. "I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States period. Now, we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.” This quick deflection of responsibility and consistent blame on others for his actions is just a couple of the mastermind’s functional tactics. Reviewing over the entirety of the last presidential term, El Paso’s former congressman Beto O’Rourke had some hard feelings about President Trump’s personal presentation. Mid-2019, mass shooting in El Paso was significantly downplayed as “a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas”. On a Sunday morning, 22 men, women, and children were murdered by “a white man who targeted Latinos”. Yes, the President had just written a “manifesto” that proclaimed a push back on immigrants, and yes, because of the obvious prejudice behavior, 49 out of 50 Republican lawmakers “declined to appear on air” to discuss the shooting. O’Rouke, frustrated from the silence claims “He’s not tolerating racism, he’s promoting racism. He’s not tolerating violence, he’s inciting racism and violence in this country.” Being familiar with our president’s defense of known white supremacists in which he claims to be “very nice people” even after the verbal purpose of domination and elimination of nonwhites, we can conclude that Trump’s collision of what’s white and what’s right has led many to believe that there is an essential “race war”. In this division, not even his supporters can back up the national leader’s actions without proving to share the same disciplines.

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