I find calls of “not my president” to be rhetorical drama. Maybe it feels good to say, maybe it expresses a dissatisfaction or extreme anger with the current state of affairs, but it’s a meaningless sentiment.
A few posts above BigT says “he’s not really the president.” What does that even mean? There is an elected human holding office. Signing shit. Tweeting his tweets. Golfing his golfs. Grabbing his pussies. The executive branch may be dysfunctional, but it is functioning. Until legislation in this country bypasses the president’s desk and foreign governments cease recognizing that Trump is president of the US, he is in fact “really” the president.
Expressing outrage is fine, but trying to build logic that defends a factually meaningless statement like “not my president” starts to sound silly.
I’ll also echo what Ann Hedonia says just above. I’ve never felt like a president was “my” president, as if I owed some allegiance to or had some ownership of them.
Trump is not president by any standard I can imagine. He has keepers. There are government officials who lie to him to keep him from wigging out. They don’t let him see some information because it is too important to trust him with.
Right now we don’t have a president. We have a disabled man filling the chair with the whole Republican party covering for him.
I voted ‘no’ given only that and ‘yes’ as my choices.
That answer is true but misleading. My answer would be ‘no’ for a candidate I support, as well as one I oppose.
Whoever wins the election is “the” President, regardless of party. But I have never regarded the President as “my” President, even if I supported them. Just “the” President.
And since the real question lurking under the stated question is, “is your attitude towards the legitimacy of the holder of the office the same or different depending on party?” with a ‘yes’ = ‘same’ and ‘no’ = ‘different,’ and my answer to the real question is ‘same,’ my ‘no’ is a true answer to the stated question and a false answer to the underlying question.
Absolutely not. He’s an unlawful inhabitant of the Oval Office, put there by a hostile power. The day he dies will be the happiest day in the history of humanity. I only hope I live long enough to pour piss on his grave.
Presidents preside over the executive branch of government, not regular citizens who aren’t employed by the government. No president has or ever will be “my” president.
Okay, I take that back. I was in the Army during Bush’s two terms, so I guess, no matter how much I hate saying it, Bush was “my” president, because he was my boss during those years. But no other president was or will be.
He has the job. Like him or hate him, he is the guy with the job. My fellow countrymen voted him in (and I have bone to pick with them!)
Saying ‘he’s not *my *President’ sounds idiotic to me. Just as idiotic as when the idiots on the right were saying it. Like that silly act of denial could mean anything.
Of course not every issue has my support, and I will oppose items he wants, that I believe and not in best interest of US.
But President Trump is my president, and has my support, as President Obama was my president, and had my support.
I hope my president is a success, although I may hope many of his ideas are rejected.
Then through compromise and common ground a better idea will immerge.
I think it of terms of shareholders, not employment. A president is elected by the share/stakeholders and beholdent to them (not to the employees). We are all stakeholders in this country. Lets not lose that vision or we will all sink to the level of employees/slaves and in that lose that very right.
I’m not in hurricane country, but I am in earthquake (and for the moment, quite horribly, wildfire) country. I’ve got no problem with the rest of the government, FEMA included. My state pays out more in federal taxes than it gets back–that’s our money too, and we deserve it.
What I don’t want is him hauling his orange ass and attendant air-traffic-control nightmare out here to “show support” and hurl paper towels at us. We rejected him in overwhelming numbers. His presence does not provide comfort.