I don’t get it. And maybe I won’t ever.

I know I need to exorcise these demons though.

Kamala had a brief and fraught campaign, 3.5 months to Trump’s 8 years. She was the late entrant underdog.
The electorate were unimpressed and disillusioned with Biden and Harris was his unremarkable understudy. The people wanted change. This much I understand.
The dogs in the fight though: I’d better understand if the opposition was Colonel Sanders. Not a tenured senator, district attorney, attorney general and vice president.

The ‘leader of the free world’ influences global politics, I reckon we should all get a vote in the US presidential election.

Here’s what plagues me.

#ThingsWorldLeadersSay

• “It’s important to make sure we talk to each other in ways that heal, not wound” – Barack Obama

• “Corruption is just another form of tyranny” – Joe Biden
• “We cannot build our own future without helping others build theirs” – Bill Clinton
• “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country” – JFK

And then there’s these presidential remarks

• [Of late golf pro Arnold Palmer] “I refuse to say it, but when he took showers … they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable’” – Trump, October, 2024
• [When asked about his healthcare policy after 7 years] “I have concepts of a plan” – Trump, September 2024
• “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people who live there” – Trump, September 2024
• “I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die” – Trump, June 2024
• [Of his mugshot] “A lot of people said black people like me because they actually view me as being discriminated against” – Trump, February 2024
• “You know I have this gorgeous head of hair – when I take a shower, I want water to pour down on me. When you go into these new homes with showers, the water drips down slowly, slowly” – Trump, August 2023
• “I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?” – Trump, April 2020
• [Of Hurricane Florence] “the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water” – Trump, September 2018

• [Of Vietnam war veteran John McCain] “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.“ – Trump, August 2018

• “I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her” – Trump, March 2006
• And just… well… “… Covfefe” – Trump, May 2017

Not to mention

• His long and well chronicled bromance with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
• His 6 bankrupted businesses, paying just $750 in income tax in 18 years, while currently owing >$450m for fraud
• Dodging the draft 5 times, to then denigrate war vets as suckers and losers and disrespect their sacred resting place
• Of his 1,461 days in office as president, playing 261 rounds of golf
• Only 4 of 44 of his previous cabinet members endorsing him
• Bragging to an NRA convention that he ‘did nothing’ (on gun control) during his term, while gun violence – the leading cause of child death – peaked
• Declaring his intent to buy Greenland, the autonomous Danish democracy
• Adjacent to his failing social media platform – Truth Social – flogging made-in-China bibles, $100k watches, $400 sneakers, digital trading cards and $165 coffee table books
• Confusing his wife with his sexual assault victim in a photo during a deposition
• Flouting anti-nepotism rules and hooking up Jared and Ivanka with sweet $640m gigs and presidential pardons
• Mocking a journo with a disability at a White House press conference
• Peddling doctored photos and tripling down on bogus claims of a bigger inauguration crowd than his nemesis Obama, who he also insisted wasn’t an American citizen
• Palling about with notable anti-semites (nay Holocaust deniers) Nick Fuentes, Kanye and Laura Loomer
• And – instead of taking questions – dancing for >30 minutes at his last campaign rally, which is just plain weird

To say nothing of election fraud claims, inciting an insurrection or “grabbing ’em by the pussy.”

As a convicted felon, there’s a few things the President of the United States of America can’t do:

• Travel to more than 35 countries including Australia (yay!), Canada, the UK, Japan, Israel, China and India
• Vote
• Own a firearm
• Work as a teacher, police officer or bartender

How a bankrupt, narcissistic, rapist who can’t legally pour a drink is leader of the free world will evade me for all my days.