He’s “the” president and I respect that he’s lawfully in office. I don’t feel any obligation to respect him or wish him well. I’m not sure what would make him “my” president but he ain’t it. But then, the last guy wasn’t either. The idea of someone being “my” president seems a bit weird to me.
The only definition that makes sense to me is “The lawful president of the US”, and that he is.
I don’t particularly like one of my neighbors, but I’m not delusional enough to think that makes him not my neighbor.
I’d say that there’s a difference between opposing the actions of the President versus reading up on the finer aspects of the 25th Amendment and cheering for section 4.
Like, when Caligula appointed his horse as a consul (presuming this to be a true story), saying that everything took place according to the accepted, legal standards for consul appointments is missing a large aspect of nuance. Sometimes there are fundamental issues that go beyond what one should ever expect to encounter when asked a question like this.
So, I voted “Yes”. But that should not be taken to imply that I consider Trump to be my President. He’s Caligula’s President.
If the president was lawfully elected by your fellow citizens under the procedures in your Constitution, then yes, he is “your” president, no matter how much you may despise him. To believe otherwise would be to reject “your” entire country.
I kind of agree. It was stupid when I saw it first in 2008 with the anti-Obama crap, and it annoys me a bit now, too. But it all hinges on how you define “my president,” which I think is the point of the OP. Anyhow, I voted “yes,” but Trump is the one that makes me question my own clinical definition of “my president” as opposed to a more personal one.
He may be THE president, but he sure as hell isn’t MY president.
But by that definition, the question strikes me as not being terribly useful, to the point of not being terribly interesting. It strikes me as better to say: sometimes I’ve liked what the president was doing, and sometimes I haven’t – and, in both cases, I could declare “Well, were I a Senator, I wouldn’t vote to remove him due to the House impeaching him or his Cabinet kicking off a 25th Amendment proceeding.”
And if the Not-My-President phrase is to be useful and interesting, I figure it’d refer to a president who’d prompt me to say the opposite.
He’s certainly the president in at least one sense of the word… he was legally elected President of the United States of America. That counts for a lot. Everything, really.
I’m as anti-Trump as anyone but there is no getting away from the fact that if you are an American citizen, Donnie Trump is the president of your country, therefore it’s accurate to say that he is “your president”. But it sucks.
I voted no, but only because I’ve never thought of any of the White House occupants as “my” president per se. However, I’ve referred to several as “our president” in conversations with my fellow Americans, and I wouldn’t object if someone from another country called Trump “your president” while conversing with me. So I guess my “no” is a soft one.
If you’re an American he’s your president. There is only one. Feel free to pretend otherwise but that doesn’t change the facts. It’s a silly concept to me.
Not for the purpose of this particular poll, though.
Is this poll invalid?
What’s the difference between a president who is your president and one who is not?
No.
All previous presidents in my lifetime–whether I agreed them or not on any particular issue–had a clear sense that they were serving all US citizens. Even when they were actively working against the rights of some particular subset of citizens, they still considered themselves responsible for the citizenry as a whole.
Trump has made it clear that he serves (if you could even call it “serves”) only those that voted for him. The needs of those that didn’t vote for him have precisely zero importance to him.
So it’s Trump himself that doesn’t think he’s my president. I’m happy to go along with that view.
Not today. Not ever for that asshole.
Whether I like it or not the legally elected President of the United States is my president. At present that means that Donald J Trump is my president.
May God have mercy on our souls.
Further to my earlier question, I’m curious how this “not my president” thing works. Let’s say you live in a hurricane prone area, and you need assistance from FEMA, which Trump has dispatched to your area. Do you decline the assistance?
If I were to suddenly wake up to the idea that Trump is not my president, exactly how would my life be different? Are there things I get to do or things I no longer can do?
If we’re talking about the law rather than personal feelings, I don’t know of any law that designates a “president of every American citizen,” so legally speaking, he is the President of the United States. That’s it.
(Likewise, if one is not a member of one of the armed services, the president is not “our commander in chief,” as one sometimes sees it put.)
How does that make sense? That’s pretty much my point if you are an American you can answer the poll however you want. It doesn’t change the fact that the current president is your president. The alternative feels like sticking your fingers in your ears and saying lalalala to drown out reality. Believe me I’m not too happy about it either.
Yes, as much as I hate to admit it, Trump is “my” president. The problem though is that Trump seems to want to be our king.
Do you understand the difference between Trump being The President, the legally elected leader of this country, and MY President, the leader of this country that gives a shit about anything other than his own self-interests, the leader that gives at least lip service to serving the entire country and not just the parts that support him and/or make him richer, the leader that gives a shit about how he looks to the rest of the world, the leader that wouldn’t rip apart this country’s health care system just because it is named after someone else, a leader that would consider me as much a citizen to be listened to as any that voted for him. Trump is The President.