Will Trump’s second term be any better than his first?

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this holiday season, I’m sure that all Americans want to receive pretty much the same gift. Answers. In around the world of politics, everyone is wondering what their country and the world are going to look like after January 20, once President Trump, the sequel is released, or, depending on your perspective, unleashed. What can we expect to see up on the big screen? What’s coming Cue music from Jaws, or maybe the sound of music? When he took office, incoming President George H W Bush promised to forge an administration that was kinder and gentler than some of the meism we saw at the Reagan Revolution. Of course, no one in his right mind expects anything even remotely kind or gentle from Trump. He doesn’t have it in him. By it, I mean character, among other things. About a year ago, I recorded a video for straight arrow news where I spelled out a laundry list of values and human qualities that Trump lacks. The lists include items like wisdom, introspection,

courage, smarts, empathy, compassion, common sense, humility, loyalty and good judgment,

did Trump learn anything from his first tour of duty in the Oval Office, or did he learn anything after leaving office from being hounded, indicted, tried, convicted and nearly assassinated? If he did, now is the time to show it off,

sure the incoming president could take the win and be a bigger man than his critics expect him to be, but that’s a long shot. A safer bet is that the 47th president, who bears a striking resemblance to the 45th president, will be every bit as vindictive and petty as some political observers fear.

Trump is massively insecure, haunted by ghosts and tied down by past lives. He never forgets a slight and he enjoys nothing more than humiliating his opponents by making them grovel and beg for his approval. Yet, is it really that simple and predictable? Will Trump 2.0

just be meaner and more embittered than the original, is that all there is to it, let’s hope not. I, for one, think it’s possible that Trump has grown up quite a bit, and the experience of having been present before could help him become a better president this time around. After all, he’s already done this job.

Some Americans say he did it well. Others insist he did it poorly. We could argue about that until the end of time, but he did the job just the same. He doesn’t need training wheels. He can hit the ground running. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistakes and not repeat them, at least that’s the feeling I got recently when I saw news footage of Trump in Paris for the ceremony marking the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral, as he was greeted warmly by French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump seemed perfectly comfortable in the role in which history has cast him now twice that of leader of the free world. It’s very strange to many Americans, Trump is a clown, a con man, a carnival barker. He’s given at least half the country permission to hate, resent and distrust the other half. He has made our country more mean, more divided, more unsure of its place in the world. And yet, when he’s abroad, it’s a totally different story. Macron likely saw an old friend, an ally, someone who he knew he could work with because he had worked with him before. That sort of thing has value. Let’s hope that Trump doesn’t screw it up with his America first bravado and his disdain for NATO. And while we’re at it, let’s hope something else that Trump 2.0 the sequel is much better than the original. I.