Real estate and entertainment mogul, Donald Trump, as you may have noticed, has been in the news. After a series of alleged dirty deals with Italian-American mafia, he has gained a large popular through his reality tv show, "The Apprentice." Because of this it has somehow turned his tarnished image around so that he is the front-runner of the Republican nominees for president.
Although he says crazy things in public like, ""He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured." –Trump on John McCain, or “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. . . . They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people,”on immigration, he wants to inflame the Republican voters to get them on his side and to raise his numbers in the polls. These statements are shocking since they are so blunt and politically incorrect that rational people don't know how to respond to them. He promotes incorrect information about Obama and the global climate change problems in the same way he promotes a tv show or beauty pageant, with repetition, glitz, and vagueness. But, running our country is NOT a beauty pageant. It is real life, and too complex for him just promote himself and his ideas.
This raving lunatic has been voicing the deepest, darkest thoughts and ideals of the Right-wing, and the scary thing is, people are agreeing with him. He is voicing these things just to get attention. His power and wealth allow him to say these things with no or little repercussion. His presence in media and television have made him well known, and because of this, he has an impact on more people because they assume that since he is rich, he would know what he is doing to run the country and the economy. As expected, he doesn't promote that he has had alleged shady dealings with mafia and that four of his companies went bankrupt, proving his ineptitude for running our country.
As president, you are supposed to be a public servant. Donald Trump is not this. He has an ego the size of a galaxy, and he has a selfish, self-serving personality to match. He uses social media and television to flaunt his ego and wealth. By what he is saying about how he would act in office shows his ego since he seems to believe that by the shear force of his personality, he will change the government and country. He has an "ends justifies the means" attitude in business where he doesn't care what happens to other people, as long as he is on top and the "winner." Doesn't sound like someone who would think of the people of the country first.
To prove that he is really only in this for the publicity, he treated the conservatives to a potential run several years back, and that he'll drop out if his polls drop.
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trumps-craziest-quotes-the-2016-presidential-hopeful-speaks-201568
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-polls_5611856fe4b07681270265d5
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