Unpredictability in a president is not a good thing. It’s not a sign of smartness. In President Trump’s case it’s born of ignorance, ignorance of the issues he’ll have to face as president, of a tendency to say the first thing that comes to mind with no more information than the average person has, then changing his mind as his team rolls out the facts for him.
In the meantime, U.S. citizens and the nations of the world have no more idea than Trump does of what the position of the U.S. will be on any of the issues confronting us from one day to the next.
The angry white men who voted for Trump voted for change without knowing what will change nor how it will change — or not change. They were unsatisfied with their lives and wanted change.
Well, Trump does represent change: he doesn’t understand the issues confronting the nation; he’s a model for lewd and disrespectful behavior; his charities and his business behavior show a disregard for honest dealing; and he keeps dithering over the impossible campaign promises that got him elected — a wall between Mexico and the U.S.; the deportation of 11 million undocumented workers; unconstitutional discrimination against Muslim-Americans; unrealistic, damaging immigration policies.
