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Don Trump Can Save the World
But he won’t. Here’s why
The world’s media are reporting that President Trump, now in his “lame-duck” post-election phase, contemplated dropping a nuclear weapon on Iran.
Since the election, Trump seems to have done little that is productive. In a time when his nation is in the grip of severe health, economic, and racial crises, he rails against the election results, sulks, and sends tweets that are labelled as false or misleading by Twitter.
The nation, and in fact the world, is worried that he will sow landmines in the path of the incoming administration, and what more horrific trap to set than to load up President Biden with nuclear war?
The war’s already here
The figures for the Covid deaths easily match those for a major war already. Over a quarter of a million Americans dead, with the average over a thousand each day and rising.
Don Trump’s approach to Covid? Ignore it. In the two months before President Biden takes office, at the current rate, there will be another hundred thousand American deaths.
America needs to end this war, not start fresh ones.
Why?
Trump’s mental makeup has been the subject of much debate, including contributions from his niece Mary, a clinical psychologist, who has published a book giving her insights into the President’s state of mind.
Put simply, Don Trump is incapable of admitting a mistake, a loss, or anything negative, and if forced to do so suffers severe mental anguish. This doesn’t seem to be something he has any conscious control over. He puts a positive spin on anything, no matter how implausible or bizarre his explanation appears.
Refusing to acknowledge his loss in the election is incredibly difficult to admit, but if the incoming President is faced with immense difficulties as a result of losing to Trump, then Trump, once out of office, can say, “Well, you should have listened to me, and none of this would have happened.”
Yes, bizarre, but that seems to be Trump’s thinking. In his last two months, make it as difficult for Biden to be a success as possible.
Here’s the problem
That might work in a petty and vindictive way, and doubtless, Citizen Trump will take pleasure in watching President Biden deal with the obstacles left in his path, but for the nation as a whole, that’s not the path to prosperity.
The primary function of government is to provide security and stability for the citizens to live their lives, work for a living, create wealth, and pass on a shining future to their children. A wise administration facilitates economic and social growth, not sabotages it.
Citizen Trump will likely face his own problems, with massive personal debts falling due and the prospect of federal lawsuits that have been held up during his time in the White House.
Here’s the solution
This may sound bizarre and implausible, but it could work:
- President Trump and Vice-President Pence resign.
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi becomes Acting President, as per the line of succession.
- President Pelosi issues a full pardon to Trump for crimes he may have committed against the nation, in much the same way that Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, for the good and stability of the nation.
- President Pelosi serves a few weeks, working in close co-operation with President-elect Biden, starting no wars, implementing measures to reduce the impact of the disease and economic setbacks.
- President Biden is sworn in on 20 January 2021. Don Trump is not forced to stand before the nation and accept the humiliation of being fired. He can be golfing in Saudi Arabia if he wishes.
Leaving aside issues of personal ego and partisan identity, America faces deep problems, and an administration aimed at healing, rather than wrecking, is what the nation and the world need right now. Dropping a bomb on Iran or North Korea — or anywhere else — is not going to end quietly or well, nor is it something that will have no impact on third parties. It could well — and I use the term advisedly — blow up.
A wise leader would put the nation’s interests first.
And here’s why it won’t happen
President Trump could not accept a course of action like this, despite its obvious advantages, because he does not have the wisdom, the maturity, the grace, or the courage to take it.
Britni
