Why Donald Trump Will Never Be President
November 27, 2016
by Laughlin Artz
Editor, Context News
Donald
Trump will never be President of the United States because Donald Trump will
never stop being Donald Trump. His whole campaign was built on Donald the Personality, Donald the Outsider, Donald the Winner, Donald the Billionaire, Donald the Savior. This is a drum that the Trump folks beat loud and often, most notably when Candidate Trump got into trouble at various
points and his advisers reminded us as he reminded them: “You have to let Trump be Trump.”
We were all simply
wide-eyed spectators, watching in amazement and disbelief this phenomenon of
“Trump being Trump.” And with each
subsequent disaster, we were reminded that this is the way he is, and nothing or no one is going to change that.
Editor, Context News
Donald
Trump will never be President of the United States because Donald Trump will
never stop being Donald Trump. His whole campaign was built on Donald the Personality, Donald the Outsider, Donald the Winner, Donald the Billionaire, Donald the Savior. This is a drum that the Trump folks beat loud and often, most notably when Candidate Trump got into trouble at various
points and his advisers reminded us as he reminded them: “You have to let Trump be Trump.”
We were all simply
wide-eyed spectators, watching in amazement and disbelief this phenomenon of
“Trump being Trump.” And with each
subsequent disaster, we were reminded that this is the way he is, and nothing or no one is going to change that.
If
there is one lesson of real value that America might learn from that
train-wreck of a campaign, that careening dumpster fire that people just
couldn’t stop watching, that seemingly endless barrage of bizarre instances of “Trump being Trump,” it is that Trump can’t stop being Trump. Not only can’t this man stop being Trump, but
even more problematic, he has assigned the root of his power to just that –
“being Trump.” That alone, without all
the other more obvious horrors of this election, should scare the shit out of us.
there is one lesson of real value that America might learn from that
train-wreck of a campaign, that careening dumpster fire that people just
couldn’t stop watching, that seemingly endless barrage of bizarre instances of “Trump being Trump,” it is that Trump can’t stop being Trump. Not only can’t this man stop being Trump, but
even more problematic, he has assigned the root of his power to just that –
“being Trump.” That alone, without all
the other more obvious horrors of this election, should scare the shit out of us.
What
got elected was not a man humbled and hungry to be reinvented into the distinct
and unique entity that is President of the United States of America; what got elected was a
personality vindicated by the screaming crowds and righteous voters, more
steadfast than ever to being exactly what he already was: Donald Trump.
got elected was not a man humbled and hungry to be reinvented into the distinct
and unique entity that is President of the United States of America; what got elected was a
personality vindicated by the screaming crowds and righteous voters, more
steadfast than ever to being exactly what he already was: Donald Trump.
This
man sees his election as a mandate for “being Trump,” not as the Constitutionally-designed
opportunity to be our President.
man sees his election as a mandate for “being Trump,” not as the Constitutionally-designed
opportunity to be our President.
His
whole existence – his name on the buildings and airplanes and steaks and
clothing lines, the TV shows, the casinos and beauty pageants – all of that feeds
his insatiable appetite for “being Trump” and keeps his existence as Trump in place for himself and for
the world. His election to President of
the United States was the ultimate bump, the global fix, the electoral shooting
up of Trump junk. The heart of democracy
has been mainlined by this man’s addiction to “being Trump.”
whole existence – his name on the buildings and airplanes and steaks and
clothing lines, the TV shows, the casinos and beauty pageants – all of that feeds
his insatiable appetite for “being Trump” and keeps his existence as Trump in place for himself and for
the world. His election to President of
the United States was the ultimate bump, the global fix, the electoral shooting
up of Trump junk. The heart of democracy
has been mainlined by this man’s addiction to “being Trump.”
What
makes someone the President of the United States is not qualities or
characteristics or engenderings of liberalism or conservatism. And no, not even the act of being elected. That will get you the title, and title alone doth not a President make. What has the President be the President is one thing – the sacred honor of the promise,
the oath, the word that is the Oath of Office of President of the United States:
makes someone the President of the United States is not qualities or
characteristics or engenderings of liberalism or conservatism. And no, not even the act of being elected. That will get you the title, and title alone doth not a President make. What has the President be the President is one thing – the sacred honor of the promise,
the oath, the word that is the Oath of Office of President of the United States:
“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office
of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
There is no Donald Trump in that oath. There is no individual, no personality, no morality, ideology or anything of the sort in that promise. There is only the promise.
With that oath and its honor comes a distinct way of seeing the world that is the worldview of the President. The deal made as a matter of that oath is that
from the moment of its taking, that oath, that promise will be the determining
factor in how the promiser acts, lives, thinks and “be’s.” The honoring of that oath is what gives one
that unique way of being which is “being the President of the United States.”
With that oath and its honor comes a distinct way of seeing the world that is the worldview of the President. The deal made as a matter of that oath is that
from the moment of its taking, that oath, that promise will be the determining
factor in how the promiser acts, lives, thinks and “be’s.” The honoring of that oath is what gives one
that unique way of being which is “being the President of the United States.”
The problem here is not Donald Trump as Donald
Trump him/itself, as abhorrent and disgusting as that/he might be. The problem is the insistence on the part of
this man to keep being Donald Trump.
It is impossible to be Donald Trump and be the President. That is the point of the oath – not to give
that man or woman an additional promise to keep, but that in the making of that
promise, in the taking of that oath, to retire that which one has been and become that which the oath requires for its fulfillment.
Trump him/itself, as abhorrent and disgusting as that/he might be. The problem is the insistence on the part of
this man to keep being Donald Trump.
It is impossible to be Donald Trump and be the President. That is the point of the oath – not to give
that man or woman an additional promise to keep, but that in the making of that
promise, in the taking of that oath, to retire that which one has been and become that which the oath requires for its fulfillment.
How much time do you think Donald Trump has
spent really dealing with what it actually takes to honor, to uphold that
promise which is the Oath of Office of President of the United States? Predictably about the same amount of time he
has taken dealing with the oaths of his marriages or the commitments of his
business contracts.
spent really dealing with what it actually takes to honor, to uphold that
promise which is the Oath of Office of President of the United States? Predictably about the same amount of time he
has taken dealing with the oaths of his marriages or the commitments of his
business contracts.
In looking over the history of Trump’s relationship
with his promises, it is clear that when push comes to shove, what gets honored in his world
is not the promises he makes, but the “Trump” that he is. The big difference now is that the promise he
will be making in January is to us.
with his promises, it is clear that when push comes to shove, what gets honored in his world
is not the promises he makes, but the “Trump” that he is. The big difference now is that the promise he
will be making in January is to us.
We should not kid ourselves, we should be very
clear that what will walk up to that podium on Inauguration Day will be Donald
Trump (what in his world got elected), and that what will walk down will be
that same entity, fully intact.
clear that what will walk up to that podium on Inauguration Day will be Donald
Trump (what in his world got elected), and that what will walk down will be
that same entity, fully intact.
The Inauguration will not deliver to us a President of the United States, but rather the antithesis of the Constitution and the democracy
it holds sacred: Trump being Trump.
it holds sacred: Trump being Trump.
That is the real unconstitutionality of the
Presidency of Donald Trump.
Presidency of Donald Trump.