President Trump’s greatest strength
would be his confidence. Like everything else in life confidence is key.
Confidence is an important trait a voter wants in a leader. Trump believes with
all his heart that his ideas, policies, and the direction he wants to take this
country is the correct one. He once said “Happy New
Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost
so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!” The Presidents greatest
weakness is his recklessness. He often shoots from the hip when he tweets.
During his campaign he would often send out tweets that might have seemed like
a good idea to him, but the public did not feel the same way. For example,
during the Republican primary he tweeted out a picture that compared his wife
to Ted Cruz’s wife. This was an unprecedented move even for Trump at the time.
Donald’s greatest opportunity was Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. I have to
give it to him he seized this opportunity. He continuously and relentlessly
slammed her about the scandal at every interview, press conference, and debate.
In my view his approach to the email scandal won him the Oval Office. Trumps
single biggest threat he faced during campaign season was the media. From the
start he slammed liberal news channels for reporting on news that was negative
towards him, or otherwise known as
“fake news”. He has frequently tried to cut the medias credibility from
the public. His war with the news media has caused a lot of people to develop
discouraging and negative views of him. Whenever issues came up during the
election Trump’s campaign team frequently refuted negative news through social
media.
One
of the issues that was most highlighted throughout Trump’s campaign was his
stance on America first. He made sure we all knew that he was going to be the
President that “Makes America Great Again”. All through the campaign he said he
would make sure business stay in America and create jobs for American citizens.
Which sounds great and everything, just his path to doing this will cause
intense tension between America and it’s allies. I think one tactic that built
up his support was his frequent and often-incorrect insults towards what
President Obama accomplished in the job sector. Trump made clear his hard-line
stance on immigration. President Trump believes a wall is needed on the United
States-Mexico boarder. This wall in my point of view shows the racism that
influence’s Trumps political views. Trump also frequently highlighted the issue
of terrorism. He told the public that he would protect America from all the
terrorists. This is where he came out with the idea of the Muslim ban. He
thinks restricting Muslims from entering the United States decreases the
chances of a terror attack happening on American soil. One of the many issues
Trump failed to talk about during the election was women and minority rights.
Through Trump’s comments and actions he has made it clear that he is
un-motivated to improve the lives of women and minorities. I believe if he had
shown much more interest in improving their lives his support would have
increased. His most focal issue was putting America first. That is what he ran
his campaign on. His slogan was “Make America Great Again”.
One
of Trump’s most trusted and influential advisor was Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner happens to be Donald’s
son in law. Jared is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka. Jared graduated cum
laude from Harvard College in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts. He then proceeded to
get a law degree from New York University in 2007. Kushner is most known for
his and his fathers real estate company in New York. Like Trump the Kushner’s
made their wealth being a real estate investor. This is how Jared became
involved with Ivanka. Jared has become one of Trumps top and most trusted
advisors.
It
goes without saying the most famous and probably most influential advisor to
Trump is Kellyanne Conway. Conway became well known throughout the Republican
Party through her work as a strategist for Republican officials on how to
become more appealing towards women. This as everyone knows is a clear weakness
of the Trump campaign. It goes without saying Kellyanne Conway was the
mastermind behind getting as much support from women as he did. I think he
would have lost the election without her. There are a few people in politics
that would have been able to defend everything Donald has ever said disparaging
women. Conway’s incredible work during the election and her extensive knowledge
in politics has made her an irreplaceable asset to the Trump campaign.
I really liked what you said about his confidence. That was the first blog that I have read that said something about this and you are spot on with that. I really disagree with you on your point over the media being a threat. The media ended up being his best friend because of their constant coverage and free name exposure to all audiences. Finally, I had no idea that his son in law was on his campaign team. That is very interesting because the rest of his team came from political think tanks.
ReplyDeleteI actually agreed with you on the topic of media. While I think it helped Trump in a lot of ways as, Daniel mentioned above, I think it was definitely a threat to his campaign. Yes, he got a lot of free press, but liberal media did some damage to his campaign, and could have been worse had his team not combatted it correctly.
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