This is, bar none, the stupidest self-own on a national level I've ever seen, and that includes Brexit. These idiotic moves just erased a few trillion dollars of national wealth without getting anything in return.
For the rest of my life, if anyone ever again unironically says we need a businessman for president, I will laugh in their face.
In fairness, not all businessmen have multiple bankruptcies, two impeachements, and 34 felony convictions.
Very true, and somehow completely overlooked by the sizable chunk of the population who mystifyingly still believed he was good at it. I'm at a loss.
Trump is a poor person's idea of what a rich person is.
Being able to run an enterprise well (and there's plenty of evidence to the contrary) is no guarantee of being able to direct an entire economy.
The scale's just tiny in comparison. Walmart's a huge company with about 2M global employees. That's nothing compared to the US-sized decisions a president has to make. And Walmart's CEO doesn't have to direct a military, too.
A proper businessman might be good. But a sleazy "You want to buy a watch?" kind of "businessman" like the one we have now?
I would be willing to entertain that discussion, so long as it's not from anyone who thought our current president was a proper businessman in the first place.