Talking About Politics: Will people suddenly stop hating Donald Trump when he leaves office?

Will people suddenly stop hating Donald Trump when he leaves office?

Well, I can’t answer this for “many people.” I can’t even answer this for “liberals” or “many liberals.” I can only answer for myself, even though I assume there are others who feel this way about Donald Trump.

To be honest with you, dear questioner, I’ve never been a fan of Donald Trump’s. Based on his long history of seeking public attention, his very public penchant for marrying attractive (if perhaps a bit plastic-looking) women, then ditching them after having widely-publicized affairs with other attractive (and plastic-looking) women. and his less-than-stellar business history (Trump steaks, Trump vodka, Trump casinos, and worse yet, Trump University), I don’t see much to admire in the current President of the United States.

"I love pitting people against each other. My whole life is based on that. It brings out the best in people and the worst in people. If the worst comes out, you don't want them working for you." ~ Donald Trump

I suspect that Trump supporters will assume that I don’t like The Donald because:

• He’s a Republican
• He won the 2016 election while my candidate lost
• He’s wealthy and I’m just jealous
• I’m a liberal snowflake who won’t admit that he is making America great again

Wrong. On all counts.

"When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy." ~ Donald Trump

I dislike Trump because he is a sleazy womanizer.

“I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.” —Donald Trump

I don’t like Trump because he encourages his supporters to be uncivil and ruthlessly insulting toward others.

And, then there’s his pathological insistence that the Central Park Five, four blacks and one Latino teens, are guilty of a crime they didn’t commit, even though the actual culprit confessed and DNA evidence cleared their names long ago.

From NBC News in 2016:

Donald Trump Says Central Park Five Are Guilty, Despite DNA Evidence

by BENJY SARLIN

Wading into a racially-charged case from his past, Donald Trump indicated that the "Central Park Five" were guilty, despite being officially exonerated by DNA evidence decades after a notorious 1989 rape case.

"They admitted they were guilty," Trump said to CNN in a statement.

"The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same."

The five men were convicted as teenagers after implicating each other under intense questioning over a brutal sexual assault on a jogger that dominated the tabloids. Defenders said they were coerced into confessing and all five were later cleared by DNA evidence and a separate confession in 2002 from another criminal who took credit for the assault.

New York paid them $41 million in a settlement in 2014 over their ordeal.

Trump took out a full-page ad at the time of the crime calling for New York to reinstate the death penalty in response.

The case was notable for its racial politics: Four of the Central Park Five were black and one was Latino while the victim was a white banker.

There’s not much to admire in Donald J. Trump…unless one has the same world view and moral compass as he does.