Health care, immigration, trade, diplomacy: These are complicated issues. Who knew? (Actually, many people know this; at least 3 million more than don’t). Think Will Farrell as George W. Bush: “This presidentin’ is hard!”
Dabbling in real estate with Daddy’s cash is like playing checkers compared with the multidimensional chess game of international relations and all the rest that a world leader must prepare to face each day (and by “prepare” I don’t mean watching cable television to see how your latest tweets are playing in the media).
President Donald Trump said he didn’t really need to prepare for the summit in Singapore because it’s all about attitude and relationships. This might work for selling a used car (and I’m not sure what kind of relationship we should cultivate with murderous dictators), but fluency with the complexity and history of an issue requires careful study and some kind of attention span.
Doesn’t the country need and deserve a chess player in chief?
PHILIP PANDOLFI
Shaler
