“Trump får ting gjort”

                                                                                          Fresno, 10.sept 2020

Of the 45 presidents who have served since George Washington, there have been (in my opinion) 8 great presidents (Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Reagan) and 5 worthless ones (Tyler, Buchanan, Harding, G W Bush and Obama).

If Trump is re-elected, I would place him with the great ones. Trump has been sui generis, no other president has been like him in that he did not come from the typical political or military background of most of the others; he deals with the government as a businessman and I am not the only American who finds this refreshing. He calls things as he sees them nor does he follow the traditional game-plan in the capital, ignoring political expediency. He doesn’t tolerate the government’s inefficiencies and doesn’t accept the business-as-usual attitude that dominated the capital for so long. Other presidents have shown tendencies to this: Jefferson, a strict constructionist in interpreting the Constitution, jumped at the chance to buy Louisiana when Napoleon offered to sell it, even though there was no mention of such practices in the Constitution. Jackson, despite actions I never thought were admirable (such as killing the Bank of the United States and forcing the Indian removal known as the “Trail of Tears”), followed through on his pledges to open financial and political opportunities to the common people.

Trump shows an almost super-human energy, something not seen it the White House since Theodore Roosevelt.

I would say that in the 20^th century, Franklin Roosevelt and Nixon (although disgraced in his 2^nd term) had the most successful 1^st terms of any of the men who served; Roosevelt was able to build on that into his 2^nd term and despite Nixon’s accomplishments in his 1^st term, he was forced to resign. In any case, seeing Trump’s accomplishments combined with his driving personality, I am sure that his 2^nd term will be triumphant.  Lincoln, faced with a Civil War and Franklin Roosevelt, faced with the Great Depression, forcefully jumped right into the problems with a determination to end them – and did. For his part, Franklin Roosevelt, handicapped with polio, did not let that keep him from doing all in his power to reform the financial system to make future depressions nearly impossible, and to unite the nation to fight in World War II.

Trump is similar – he sees the rot that was in the government and is trying to clean it out. Naturally, the ones affected, scream in protest. Hopefully, he will succeed.

Mr. Genini