This president cannot be presidential

The man we elected to shepherd the country through the next and possibly tumultuous and dangerous four years is way out of his league.

If he doesn't know something, he makes it up. If he doesn't agree with something, he calls it "fake." If someone disagrees with him, they're fired. His vanity is so huge that he cannot resist putting down, in an always sarcastic and rather infantile way, any detractor. To be sure it is a fetching idea to have a successful businessman run the nation's largest business (that business is us, Mr. Trump) but success in business is not akin to success in governance. Governance requires patience, compromise, leadership, and honoring all constituencies regardless of political positions.

To date, Mr. Trump's advisers have not seen fit to guide him toward a more moderate position toward the majority of his constituents who, according to the frequent polls, are growing frustrated with his unforgiving and blustery demeanor. His positions on foreign and domestic policy, which are his to determine, likely will not see fruition due to the three EQUAL branches of government we have.

But Donald The Dictator looks more and more hypocritical with each new tweet. At a photo op recently, he apparently didn't know the difference between The United Nations (its members' debts) and NATO (no member "debts") the mistakes continue. Words matter, especially when our enemies, the homeless, the uninsured, the infirm, the aged, and the environment within which we all live, billionaire or bum, are listening to a man we elected who is totally unprepared for the task. As wassaid in the classic Pogo cartoon, "we have met the enemy and he is us." And as Alexis de Tocqueville said in Democracy In America, "Americans get the government they deserve." Think on that a bit, citizens."

David Schein

Mount Prospect