A response to 'Do liberals only hate President Donald Trump because he is one of the richest and most successful people in the world?'

Not in the slightest, considering that Donald J. Trump is neither one of the richest persons in the world nor one of the most successful, at least as far as his business expertise is concerned. So if you think that all the discontent with our current Chief Executive is based on mere envy, well…no. It’s not.

If anything, I strongly dislike President Trump for various reasons, most of which are based on his behavior and utterances over the past 30 years, including:

1. His penchant for having extramarital affairs, divorcing two of his wives to marry the women he was having the affairs with, and constantly hitting on other women even though he was married. The first time he did this, he ditched first wife Ivana for Marla Maples; the second time he did this, he ditched Marla for Melania Knavs.

2. His spiteful campaign to bring back the death penalty to New York State after the “Central Park Jogger” rape case in 1989, as well as his stubborn insistence that the five teenagers who were falsely accused and convicted of that crime should not have been exonerated. He still insists the Central Park Five are guilty and that New York should never have paid them restitution, even though the actual perpetrator, a serial rapist/murderer, confessed to his crimes.

3. His constant attacks on the media, both during the 2016 Presidential campaign and after becoming the nation’s 45th President. Not only does he shout “fake news!” whenever an outlet that is not Fox News Channel prints or broadcasts a story about him, his policies, or his utterances that reflects badly on him or his Administration. This happens every day, unfortunately.

Most Americans, and not just liberals, who don’t particularly care for this President also dislike his tacit support of white supremacists and neo-Nazis, his flip-flopping on the Afghanistan War (he used to say the war was a waste of money and American lives; now he wants to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan and escalate a conflict that seems, to most people who know about wars and insurgencies, unwinnable), his calls to build an expensive and ineffective wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and his insistence that there are “many, many sides” in the recent conflict between neo-Nazis and counter-protesters at Charlottesville, Virginia.