American Presidents, until now, have known and mostly honored their contract with the American people. The basics are:
1. Maintain faith in American Institutions and the electoral process.
We could stop here. For the purposeful disruption and sowing doubt in our elections, he should be dragged off. Then we add the demeaning of our intelligence community even as they still report Russian election interference, and on and on.
2. Protect and defend the Constitution
See numerous violations cited by legal scholars.
3. Be everyone’s president, regardless of party or state.
3a. Know when to be apolitical and during crises: safeguard the entire American people.
Nope, he has used COVID and natural disasters as clubs to punish “blue” states and pander to red ones. And let’s not forget his recent comment: “If you don’t count the blue states,” our death total is not that bad….
Except even now, he lures his own red states into danger with his COVID denials.
5. Tell the truth (mostly) about current events
Or is truth for him, merely in the mouth of the bullshitter ?
6. Be transparent about yourself and background
You were going to show us those tax returns, when?
7. Do not use your office and power to settle personal scores.
(see his tweets and his need to cancel Obamacare because he can’t have the black president’s name on it. Then eventually replace with something similar -like he did with NAFTA — but now it’s got his brand. The ensuing suffering it will cause the American people, not a problem.)
7a. Do not use your office for personal financial gain. (see the Trump grift mill in recent articles, managed by his children)
8. Guide the military for the protection of Americans and respect their sacrifice.
Not even close. Remember the need for those parades? And dragging the Chief of Staff to the church photo op?
9. Support the right of the press/media for free expression, even when they criticize you. (I may disagree, but defend their right to say it. )
Y’mean, the media is not the enemy of the people?
10. Do not hold yourself and friends above the law.
Dare we make a list?
There are yet more violations, I’m sure. But these are plenty.
VOTE. AND VOLUNTEER in some way this weekend.