I may not have voted for him and I may believe that there was some foreign influence in the election, but #YesMyPresident.
I may oppose many of his policies and I may think the administration's priorities are wrong, but #YesMyPresident.
I may dislike the hateful rhetoric and I may wish there was more compassion for underprivileged Americans, but #YesMyPresident.
I am tired of opening Facebook (or Twitter, or CNN) and seeing endless, many petty, complaints about the current administration. While some of the complaints are valid, the tendency to throw the kitchen sink and say that everything is a problem and everything is a scandal that proves Donald Trump is unworthy to be President is getting ridiculous. Fake news and overhyping small events are no longer a thing that only the far right does; now liberal news outlets are blatantly misinterpreting facts to continue to denigrate Trump, making it sound like these news outlets want him to fail. I want him to succeed because his success is America's success. I didn't necessarily like President Obama, but I never wished him to fail.
While I can respect people who articulately say why they oppose a policy, I instantly lose respect for the people who, a week after his inauguration, still end their posts with #NotMyPresident. Whether you like it or not, Trump is your President. He is not illegitimate just because you disagree with his vision for the country and how to achieve it. Yes, Hillary Clinton won more votes, but that doesn't make Trump illegitimate. He won the election based on the rules of the election. Had the rules been different, say by making the winner of the popular vote the winner of the election, both he and Clinton would have run their campaigns differently because that would have been what they were aiming for. Flawed as it may be, the US presidential election is based on who wins the Electoral College, not the popular vote, and Trump won the Electoral College.
I hope that as we move forward in the Trump era people will stop spinning each and every action taken by the Trump administration as the end of the world. And I hope that people can accept that despite differences of opinion and vision, Trump is the President. I have many reservations about his policy proposals and his unique approach to politics, but at the end of the day, Trump is #YesMyPresident.
I may oppose many of his policies and I may think the administration's priorities are wrong, but #YesMyPresident.
I may dislike the hateful rhetoric and I may wish there was more compassion for underprivileged Americans, but #YesMyPresident.
I am tired of opening Facebook (or Twitter, or CNN) and seeing endless, many petty, complaints about the current administration. While some of the complaints are valid, the tendency to throw the kitchen sink and say that everything is a problem and everything is a scandal that proves Donald Trump is unworthy to be President is getting ridiculous. Fake news and overhyping small events are no longer a thing that only the far right does; now liberal news outlets are blatantly misinterpreting facts to continue to denigrate Trump, making it sound like these news outlets want him to fail. I want him to succeed because his success is America's success. I didn't necessarily like President Obama, but I never wished him to fail.
While I can respect people who articulately say why they oppose a policy, I instantly lose respect for the people who, a week after his inauguration, still end their posts with #NotMyPresident. Whether you like it or not, Trump is your President. He is not illegitimate just because you disagree with his vision for the country and how to achieve it. Yes, Hillary Clinton won more votes, but that doesn't make Trump illegitimate. He won the election based on the rules of the election. Had the rules been different, say by making the winner of the popular vote the winner of the election, both he and Clinton would have run their campaigns differently because that would have been what they were aiming for. Flawed as it may be, the US presidential election is based on who wins the Electoral College, not the popular vote, and Trump won the Electoral College.
I hope that as we move forward in the Trump era people will stop spinning each and every action taken by the Trump administration as the end of the world. And I hope that people can accept that despite differences of opinion and vision, Trump is the President. I have many reservations about his policy proposals and his unique approach to politics, but at the end of the day, Trump is #YesMyPresident.
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