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Trump laments: “I inherited a mess.”

February 16, 2017 by Pops 1 Comment

In a disjointed and sometimes bizarre hour-plus long press conference today, President Trump pointed out all of the problems in the world, the country, and just about everything else, as problems he had “inherited.”

Why is it that politicians (welcome to that world, Donald, you now qualify) always say they “inherited” the problems associated with the office they just entered?  Enough of this abuse of the language – there are only two things that people actually inherit – genetic code from living people, and old used stuff from dead people.  Politicians wring their hands and woefully moan to have “inherited” problems, pretending that they didn’t have any choice in the matter, and it was just the bad luck of the draw that they ended up with what they got.  What a load of crap!

A politician will spend 18 months running all over the country, kissing every voter butt they can find, at every whistle stop, restaurant, and venue they can rent; spending a billion or more dollars in the pursuit of a goal that they want so badly that they will climb up the pile of bodies of vanquished opponents just to get close to the golden ring.  Candidates pinpoint all of the nasty problems that they promise to fix, and brag that they are the only person who can make things better.  “Give me control of the problems, and I will do the job!”  And then, if they are unfortunate enough to actually get elected, they demurely say that they “inherited” all of those problems.  Hey, jerkwad, you wanted it, you fought for it, and now you have it.  “Inherited,” my ass. That’s like someone who kills off all of his siblings, murders his parents, and then complains about not having enough room to store all of the stuff he ended up with after probate. You won’t get any sympathy from me for those sad basset hound eyes, buddy.  We gave you what you wanted.  Now go and fix it.

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  1. Southpaw says

    February 17, 2017 at 6:38 pm

    One of the various issues I have with Trump is that he lacks accountability. Let’s focus on his relationship with the media for a moment. Our recently elected president has deemed the media “The Opposition Party”, but I’m wondering what he could have expected. He started off by publicly insulting Megyn Kelly, bashed CNN as a whole, discredited several major news publications and deemed any form of criticism towards him as “Fake News.” What’s hilarious, is that he doesn’t realize that he himself attracted all of this negative attention. His lack of political correctness, in addition to his blunt and crass demeanor, have ultimately invited the very criticism that he loathes. Trump can only blame one person for public perception, and that is himself. That same lack of accountability is a massive character flaw that’s apparent in nearly everything he does. He can’t accept that this country is flawed, so he wants to blame the previous administration. Our own president can’t accept the responsibility that’s been handed to him. It remains obvious that he’s one of the least introspective public personas on this planet. If he doesn’t like the media’s perception of him, then he should change it. If he doesn’t like the state that this country is in, then he should take responsibility for becoming the President and do his freakin’ job. Stop whining and get to work.

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