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Trump Proposal

I did not know who Donald Trump was before he announced that he was running for presidency in June of 2016. A lot of the world tuned in on the final counting of the vote to see who would be the next president of the United States of America. Many people wonder how he somehow manage to win over most of America, ask yourself what kind of people thought it would be a good idea to put him in charge of a country. How people can look the other way when it comes to the president. He has proven numerous times the flaws in his character as a person. He continues to voice bias, racist, and ignorant remarks to the public.

           “Let’s make America great again”, this is the slogan that lead president Trumps campaign. Along with the slogan, President Trump continued to say that he is going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. Every time Trump continued to repeat that he was “going to make America great again”, when was America great for everyone? Was he talking about when the Englishman were killing off the Native America, or when anyone with dark skin was enslaved for 400 years, or when the country was segregated after slavery was demolished, or when the stock market crash and most of the country was starving, or the wars that killed millions of our citizens. Those are only the big problems that are in America’s history. When trump repeatedly stated that, he was going to build a wall on the Mexican border I failed to understand why people do not understand that those words and actions are racist. “They’re bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. “They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” A statement like this is point blank racist and ignorant. Recently Trump has made a comment about the continent of Africa and country of Haiti calling them “shithole countries.” our president does not know the difference between a country and a continent, heis pushing his luck with the comments he says. Why did the citzens of this country really put a man in charge that is so ignorant that he truly does not know the difference between race and region, and country and continent.

The way Trump presents himself to the public is concerning for our country. He shows the inability to control his thoughts, seems to have a problem listening and comprehending task. When he makes rude and threatening comments about other countries, it comes off as someone who has absolutely no clue that his words are putting this country at risk. Since he has been in office, he has agitated North Korea, Russia, The Middle East, Europe, Africa, Haiti, and South America. America is supposed to be the land of the free and opportunity, but recently people are choosing to immigrate to other countries. It sad to see how the country has declined in quality over the years. My plan for this topic is to look up articles that point out the things that trump has done since he has been in office.

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Trump Annotated Bib

“Donald Trump Explains Why He's Fit To Be President.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 27 Feb. 2018,

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/donald-trump-explains-why-he-s-fit-to-be-president-760060483850

In the video the reporter, ask President Donald Trump what in his personal life prepares him to be commander and Chief of America. He responded by saying that because of his successful business and all of the traveling, he has done, that he is fit to negotiate with other countries. He says that his good judgement and is fit to put Americas solders at risk in a war.

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Charen, Mona. “Donald Trump Doesn't Have the Character to Be President.” National Review, National Review, 22 Mar. 2016

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/03/donald-trump-character-not-fit-be-president/

One point that this article stated was that in the political history of America Politicians have tried to present themselves as nicer and more empathetic than the really are. Trump continues to voice his bias opinion on many sensitive subjects. Many people in positions of power have a certain level of emotional security where they do not have to argue at every little thing that is said to them.

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Leonhardt, David, and Ian Prasad Philbrick. “Donald Trump's Racism: The Definitive List.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018,

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html

Donald trump has voiced his opinion on how he feels about other races. The article states that trump treats people differently based on their race. The article continues to list many situations in quote when trump has said racist things against other races.

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“Opinion | The Best and Worst of Trump, According to Our Readers.” The Washington Post, WP Company,

www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/opinions/best-and-worst-of-trump/?utm_term=.3fb4ec5b7bed.

This is a page where people can post what they believe the president has done wrong or right. Many people from all over the country give their opinion on how the president is doing. People point out how he will single out a religion, or mock someone’s disability. Even the people who support trump have negative comment on the choices he has announced.

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Bump, Philip. “Analysis | Trump's Speech Encouraging Police to Be 'Rough,' Annotated.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 28 July 2017,

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-police-brutality_us_597b840fe4b02a8434b6575a

The article quote some of the things the present has said on the sensitive topic of police brutality. Trump has said in a number of his speeches that the cops should not be too nice to the people they arrest. When he is giving his speeches, people applaud him when he encourage violence. He believes that the law is there to protect the criminal and that they need to be change.

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Vitali, Ali, et al. “Trump Referred to Haiti and African Nations as 'Shithole' Countries.”NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 12 Jan. 2018, www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946

One of trumps most recent comments is when he called hati and other countries shithole countries. Trump continues to surprise the world on what he is comfortable saying in the public. The article continues to explain every time trump is accused of something bad he points the blame to someone else.

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Paid paternity leave

Paid paternity leave in America is not available to most of its citizens. Those who do get paid paternity leave are those who work higher up in a corporate position. Even those who work in those positions have restrictions fathers have less time than mothers do. This makes people choose between starting a family or making money to survive. Some work places tend to steer away from women who or expecting are planning to have a baby; this is not fair to someone who is trying to better themselves by bring home money for their family. How does the government expect families to afford having a child when they have to take unpaid time off?

           Many families have to make the tough choice of who is going to take unpaid time off or quit their job completely. I believe that is very important to bond with your child in the first few months of their life. The struggle of affording a baby on one or no paycheck comes into play when having a child. Baby products are some of the most expensive things you can find in a store, and most of the time it is legally required for you to have some of these items. Living on one paycheck and paying hundreds of dollars for diapers and baby food leaves little room for fanatical error. You should not have to fanatically prepare years in advance to have a child, its punishing families away for wanting a kid. I plan to research online article of different families talking about what they had to sacrifice in order to start their family.

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I did my research paper on our wonderful president, “Note the sarcasm”. I focused myself on if trump is fit to be president of the United States of America, and I came to the conclusion that he isn’t due to his endless racist and sexist remarks. Most of us know that our president loves to golf in his “free time”, so I choose to make Trump Mini Golf for the celebration of student writing. I named my little golf course after Trumps private country club “Mar-A-Logo”, which he visit on a regular basis.

           I made the mini golf from a box.  I cut three hole in the side of the box and made each one smaller than the other. The biggest hole is worth 10, the medium 20, and the smallest 30. When a person gets the golf ball in the 10 or 20 hole, they receive a trump quote. My trump facts are my version of arcade tickets with Trump Quotes and a piece of candy taped to them. If someone scores a 10, they only receive a trump quote without the candy. I also made the class poster for our theme, which is Controversy Arcade. On the poster, I included a few of the games that are at our stand along with pictures.

           I signed up for the 4:30-5:00 pm shift for the Celebration of Student Writing. In that thirty minutes I voiced my opinion on trump with cited facts, some people from the head of the writing department stopped at my stand and talked to me on what my topic was they said they really liked the prizes I was giving out. I had many people put the Trump facts that they received on their SnapChat story, which got my idea to a greater audience. Some people even came back just to see what other Trump facts I had and of course the candy. Although I do not, like writing I had a lot of fun this semester and it was easy to keep up in class and keep my grade up. By having the Celebration of Student Writing and the Tumblr page as the final makes thing more interesting that writing a paper.

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Trump for President... Really?

Having Donald Trump in office as President of the United States of America is like walking through a field with thousands of old land mines. Every night that the news comes on, I ask myself “What has Trump done today?” You wonder will the next thing that comes out of his mouth be the thing that ends the façade of peace here in America. When it comes to Donald Trump, I do not know where to start with all of the information that is available. With his personality and experience, is Donald Trump fit to be president of the USA?

Going into the 2016 presidential election I did not know who Donald Trump was, he stood out from the other candidates because he was not a politician and he did not have a filter when it came to his speeches. The repetition of phrases such as “build a wall and make them pay for it”, and “let’s make America great again” (Magazine, Politico). He is upsetting the Russians, Europeans, and North Koreans. He continues to speak to the American public without a written script, and when he speaks off script, he tends to say something offensive to someone. When he was running for presidency, he failed to explain what he was going to do when he was president and focus on addressing Hilary Clinton as a liar or accusing Obama of not being an American. He even went as far a mocking a disabled reporter and calling Haiti and Africa shithole countries. Will he ever stop putting the country in danger, with his dangerous threats to other countries? Now we know that Trump has no filter when he speaks, but what about his racist, sexist actions and remarks (Magazine, Politico).

How is it that a man that has such low respect for women was elected as the president of the United States? When Trump owned the Miss Universe franchise from 1996 to 2015, he has been accused of entering the dressing rooms while the contestants were in stages of undressing. He explained his actions that he is the “owner of the pageant and therefore I am inspecting it” (Taylor, Jessica). Mariah Bollado is one of the women who remembers putting on her dress quick because Trump had entered the dressing room. “Don’t worry ladies, I’ve seen it all before”, is what she remembered Trump saying (Taylor). Donald Trump of course denies these accusations, but how can he deny the video proof of him saying “I just start kissing them…I don’t even wait…when you’re a star you can do anything…grab them right in the pussy” (Billy Bush). When Trump said that he had never assaulted a women in October of 2016, multiple women spoke up to the public about the incidents with Donald Trump. He was assaulting people on planes; he was even described as an “octopus” because his hands were everywhere (Taylor). Women speak out about decades of abuse how he forced himself on them and stuck his hands up their pants. Trump responses by saying, “for this to become in the final month of a campaign for president should say it all”, calling dozens of women lairs (Redden, Molly). All of this information was known during the presidential election and the country choice to ignore it and make him the leader of this county.

         While I was researching Trumps racist actions, I was surprised by the countless quotes and videos on this one topic. Before the presidential election, a majority of trumps remarks went unnoticed to the general public. One-incident pre-elections was when he referred to one of the Hispanic Miss America contestants as “Miss Housekeeper” (Leonhardt). When trump was put in the public eye of America, he did not hesitate to voice his dislike for our neighbor to the south and the Muslims. Throughout his campaign, he referred to Mexicans as criminals and rapists. His goal as president was to build a wall to make America great again. With trump in office, he pushes hard to deport everyone. What is known as the Muslim ban, refused refugee’s access to America, for seven countries. Recently trump has said that America needs more immigrants from Norway and less from “shit hole country’s” like Haiti (Mark Wilson and Getty). Trumps opinion on the African American population is nothing but negative, saying that laziness is a trait in blacks. He encourages violence to not only African Americans but also anyone who is not a rich white man. In an interview, he said that police “should not be gentle when putting someone in the car, ruff them up a little bit” (Magazine, Politico). The most surprising thing to me when it comes to trump and his racist comments is connection to white supremacy groups. He says to America how the people marching the streets in Charlottesville are “ok people” and he was even sponsored by David Duke.

Throughout history, America has tried to stay out of the problems of other countries. Historically we help our allies in time of need and always keep the war away from the main land. That is why America is known as the greatest county in the world, because many of the citizens do not know how much America is really hated by other nations. With our current president Donald Trump, he is isolating America by undercutting our allies and insulting many nations. This is the opposite of his campaign slogan “let’s make America great again”. America was never great for everyone as a whole (Magazine, Politico). Was he talking about when the Englishman were killing off the Native America, or when anyone with dark skin was enslaved for 400 years, or when the country was segregated after slavery was demolished, or when the stock market crash and most of the country was starving, or the wars that killed millions of our citizens. Those are only the big problems that are in America’s history.

Donald Trump is added to the very short list of presidents to be elected with no political background. Those who have never run for office have a strong military background. Even though political experience is not a requirement to be president, it is good practice to know how to act in a political environment before you are elected president. Many presidents served as governors or U.S. senators before being elected. I am not going to say that trump has no experience; he just has no training in running a nation. Trump is trained in business, he can run a company. Trump continues to run the country as a business.

Trump has an inability to control his thoughts and often post on social media without thinking. Some believe that Trump displays all nine criteria for an individual with Narcissistic personality disorder (Christensen). A phycologist to the public’s knowledge has not seen trump but the rumors cannot be stopped when the signs are broadcast to the world. Trumps lack of concentration, delusional thinking, memory, and impaired judgement are symptoms for multiple mental disorders. With the brief medical summary, that he released it is unclear what exactly is wrong with Donald trump without an official psychological screening (Christensen).

From the information collected, the answer to my research question is No Donald Trump is not fit to be the president of the United States base experienced on his personality and experience. Being president used to be a position of honor and respect, but with trump in office, the standards have lowered. Kids used to say that when they grew up they wanted to be the president, but do we really want our children to grow up to be like Donald Trump, an individual that thinks it ok to sexual harassed women without consequences. Many lead by example by joining the military or volunteering in their community, but Trump avoided the Vietnam draft five times and continues to act as if he is above other because he is a billionaire. What was the county doing back during the presidential election that allowed someone as racist, bias and sexist to become the next president of the United States?

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About Me

           My name is Chinelle Russell and I am a first year college student. For my final research paper I chose the topic, “If Trump is fit to be president of the United States.” I strongly believe that the 2016 presidential election was a mistake that America is going to regret in the end. Before Trump was elected, I thought that being the president was a position to represent our country to the whole world. With Trump, he is showing the worst of what America has to offer. I hope that in the next election someone will come and take over the most important job in the world.

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