Dear President Trump Thank You
How do you think you did as president?
Dear President Trump Thank You
As I am sitting here writing this letter there are so many thoughts in my mind of how this letter could be. Being a president is a title with a bunch of responsibility. Everyone wants to be it but are unsure of all the responsibilities it takes to be the president. With over 300 million people to please I rather decide on a different career.
Being a president isn’t easy you’re torn between sides with both parties making decisions on who is right and wrong. How can anyone run a country with over 300 million people and expect everyone to be happy? Constantly flooding the economy with stimulus checks, hopes and dreams on how you can make the country better. When the requirements of the people are not met, under the bus you go. Everyone wants to be heard but who gets to decide who everyone is?
If I were a cruel and hurtful being, I would have filled this letter with so many ways that you did a terrible job. Providing multiple snippets of social proof but the truth is I don’t know how you did. The only knowledge I have from your presidency is the headlines and constant bash on social media. As I write this, I can imagine that sucked. Being hated by a high percentage of your own country is bad when you think about it.
The truth is, I have never followed a president’s term. I never had an interest in politics, the ideal of believing one person could make a difference in my life simply meant I had no control over my life. Voting with the hopes that this new president will be the change that I really needed this time. This was the most disappointing feeling to have. I knew this was political crap but for years we the people all followed this tread. The idea that our presidential candidate was far superior to the other. Bashing the other candidate as if they were not part of the same country.
Following their opposing candidates’ term from a place of malice, waiting for them to make a mistake to rush to spread the news on social media or to friends and family. Elections create division, you either blue or red, that’s it. No one wants to talk about it because it creates so much conflict. It breaks up families and friendships and every time a new election year comes, I am ready for it to be over. What happen to living in harmony with the constitution purpose, a life in liberty and justice for all?
Since the day you were elected, I found more post than I can count of people tearing you down on social media. From news articles, blogs, bashing your posts on Twitter, and the list of things goes on. So much negativity and hate towards a man that was running our country, our president. I’m not saying that you did your best or your worst. I’m writing you to let you know that I am sorry that the presidency did not happen the way we all thought it would, even you.
I learned that people who behave a certain way are really lacking love, understanding, and belongingness. Humans were born perfect and then designed by programming from society, our parents, school, and the list goes on. The way we are programmed determines our behaviors even if it’s not the right behaviors. I know that you’re not a mean person you just are not happy or fulfilled because people who truly love life would be nice.
Maybe you are nice and maybe since the only thing I know is what the media allows me to know. If I were younger with a different mindset, I would bash you and tell you that I am glad you’re gone but I know that everything in life is meant to happen. You were meant to be my president. Sending bad karma to you only comes back to me. I know that there is good in you it’s just so deep inside of you that you are afraid to let anyone access it. Maybe you had an experience that made you think that you needed to be a certain way to get attention and now it’s a habit.
Know this you can change that habit. You can make your life right and you do not have to be torn between sides. You can choose to be you, remove the mask, and let people know that you really care. No one dreams of being the president and say “I’m going to really mess this up” you thought to yourself “I can make this work. “Just like the many businesses and success you created for yourself, but you cannot run a country like a business.
It takes a certain mindset, it takes hearing everyone voice, and deciding how to create a plan that benefits the country overall. It takes, putting your ego to the side and listening to the experts. It takes not having the right decisions and comfortable with admitting that.
No one knows how to be a president. You can research and look at candidates before but as the world changes and the economic issues arise you must be able to adapt to it not from a business standpoint but a people standpoint. Trump your complete presidential term was not all bad, media just chose to focus only on the bad things, and that’s what people saw. I decided to not bash you because in life you have one thing that people cannot take from you, that one thing is your self-awareness, choosing to be in control of how I reacts to things, and not letting things control the way I act. If I let every negative thing you did make me feel upset, that was me deciding to allow something outside of me to have power over me. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us, Stephen R. Covey. Also, I believe in the power of gratitude and that it is foundational for healing relationships, communities, and even negative feeling people may have about you as their president.
Before I wrote this letter, I didn’t know anything about you. I thought, what will I say? What message am I trying to translate? I knew you had created a lot of success for yourself and I read an article year ago about when you were in military school. That’s it! I don’t know who you are, and I do not need to know who you are. Only you need to know that. Who are you deep down from the many layers of hurt? That’s the person we need to show up every day.
As I close this letter, I want to ask you something, how do you think you did as president? Stephen Covey author of the 7 Habits of Effective People states that “Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
The American People have spoken now it’s your turn. Share your peace.
About the Creator
Keep reading
More stories from Shunda Jenkins and writers in The Swamp and other communities.
Food is an Experience
I grew up in a big household, six siblings, a step dad and a mom. Most of the dinners at my house included healthy home cooked soul food meals. My mom believed in eating the rainbow. The more color on the plate the better. I never recalled a night when we didn’t have American cuisine, my mom was pretty old school. She cooked us meals that her mom cooked her and the ancestors before, and history repeats itself. As a child I enjoyed the meals we had as a family but something inside of me felt the need for more. More experience with food, I didn’t want to repeat the history, I wanted to create my own. As I grew older, that quickly faded, and I continued to adopt that soul food diet, rarely eating out, a plate of delicious healthy soul food, and occasionally sweet tea and Kool-Aid.
By Shunda Jenkins4 years ago in Feast
Iran and Israel: Still Playing A Dangerous Game.
Hezbollah started out as a resistance movement to Israel. Since then the militia has grown steadily backed, supported, and supplied by Iran. Hezbollah and Israel fought a war in 2006, that ended in a stalemate. However, some historians believe that Hezbollah won that war. A UN- brokered ceasefire brought this conflict to an end.
By Nicholas Bishopa day ago in The Swamp
Rivers of Death
Rivers bring water the element essential to all life on Earth but wherever rivers flow they also bring death surprise attacks Savage kills and brutal fights every day is a battle for survival on these rivers of [Applause] death I'm under the African Sun Staying Alive is hot thirsty work and among the ranks of animals jostling to get a drink lurk Killers waiting to strike but while Lions may be fearsome and the huge Nile crocodiles ruthless Predators one of the continent's deadliest River Killers is mostly vegetarian renowned wallowers spending up to 16 hours a day lounging in the water hippos could be mistaken for relaxed creatures and yet the river horse as their name translates from ancient Greek can be a very angry pony indeed with tusks up to a foot and a half long hippos are literally armed to the teeth and a charging bull Hipp can impact with the weight force of a pickup truck what's more hippos May brutally defend their territory an Impala has been chased into a muddy Watering Hole by a lion it's stuck but for fortunately for the stricken analou the lion is reluctant to follow it into the Meer unfortunately it finds itself in the domain of a hippo ill disposed to uninvited guests the hippo's not stealing the watching Lion's meal she's most likely just aggressively defending her calf and the Impala pays the ultimate price for crossing a doting mother hippos are thought to kill more people each year than the rest of Africa's most dangerous animals combined and during mating season their ruthless aggression is directed at other hippos two bulls square up the pod's dominant male and a Challenger at stake the Riverbanks Prime mating territory and a Herm of females the dominant male puts on an aggressive display posturing to show he will not yield but the interloper Demands a fight finally the dominant male is Victorious the Conqueror celebrates with a dung shower marking the border of the territory he has successfully defended while the vanquished suffers more than just the agony of defeat his back is carved open and by Sunset the crocodiles are watching closely they'd be unlikely to take on a bull in rude Health but now they Circle an expectation the hippo breathes his last the price of insurrection is life his Hulk will not go to waste the crocodiles move in swiftly to Feast on the corpse for these voracious Predators it's a considerable meal but one dead hippo is a mere snack compared with the annual Feast provided by a particular African river each year the serengetti vast grass Plains filled to the Horizon with grazing animals taking part in one of Nature's greatest spectacles around 1 and2 million wilder beast join 700,000 other herbivores on the Great Migration around 1 in six of these migrants will die before completing the 500 M circuit many are outrun and taken down down by Africa's formidable array of Savannah carnivores their Journey coming to a Grizzly end but one of the deadliest single obstacles the vast herds must Traverse is the mara River after 3 months on the move the wilderbeast are exhausted and emaciated all that separates them from the Fresh pastures of the msai mara is the width of the river and a whole bunch of huge ravit Nile crocodiles despite the chilling threat posed by these powerful Predators some of the herd are either oblivious to the danger or so thirsty they dare to take a drink anyway for an unlucky few it will be their last and these witless victims merely wet the Croc's appetite the true Feast begins when the first of the herd Braves the river in the crush and Chaos of the crossing the 16t Crocs grabs scores of victims when 1,600 lb of musc futile the marus Crocs survive on meager rations for most of the year so take full advantage of the great migrations time of Plenty they Gorge themselves eating up to half their body weight in one sitting and with so many different species crossing the river the banquet is as varied as it is Bountiful but not all Africa's Crocs have such an easy meal ticket on the banks of this Kenyon River a Croc has got too close to a pack of feeding Lions a move it's about to regret it's a fierce attack but the Crocs skin is covered in bony armor plating eventually the Lion's Uninvited Guest Retreats having taught the Crocs and dinner manners the big cats return to the carcass the Amazon is a giant of a river and and conceal some monstrous Predators which kill with a crush and in a bloody frenzy draining a lowland Basin of close to 3 million square miles around 1/5 of the water that runs off the earth's surface is carried by the Amazon this giant of a river is renowned for its oversized residence both prey and Predator around 4 ft long and and weighing as much as an adult human capibara are the world's largest rodent they're
By cacloaidongvata day ago in The Swamp
Comments
There are no comments for this story
Be the first to respond and start the conversation.