There’s a cloud over Trump’s head – most people don’t like how he’s doing his job (the Gallup Poll). Democrats have loathed him for years but now so do Independents. Republicans still love him but their love’s getting thinner.
Pundits tell us that’s happening because he blundered when it comes to handling issues – like keeping prices down. But the truth’s subtler. Americans aren’t a perfect people but our grandfathers and great-grandfathers inherited an old blessing and passed it down across generations: The gift of character – the virtue to tell right from wrong.
And that’s the heart of Trump’s problem – character.
It’s Trump barking at a young female reporter, ‘Quiet, piggy.’
Calling another young woman reporter ‘ugly.’
Calling a third ‘stupid.’
It’s Trump calling six congressmen and senators ‘traitors’ – then posting on Truth Social, ‘Hang them, George Washington would.’
It’s pounding his chest boasting his ‘tariffs have made our country rich,’ boasting that due to him ‘WE HAVE ALL THE CARDS’ and saying ‘with a smart President we always will!’
It’s blowing up boats in the Caribbean to stop drug smugglers then turning around and pardoning a politician from Honduras a New York judge and jury sentenced to 45 years in prison for helping cartels smuggle 500 tons of drugs into our country.
A cloud’s hanging over Trump’s head but every dark cloud has a silver lining – the virtue we inherited rolls on: People still care about character.
