Officially, now, Donald John Trump the First is the 45th President of the United States of America. He has 1460 days to make America great again, which means:
- Raising 30,000 people up from poverty per day
- Legalize and stabilize some 7500 undocumented immigrants per day
- Rehabilitate and release some 1500 state and federal prisoners per day
- See 17,000 undereducated individuals achieve at least a GED per day
- Employ or improve the employment of 11,200 unemployed or underemployed persons per day
- Repair or replace 41 bridges per day, among other infrastructure improvements needed
- Cut the carbon emissions another 1.25% per year to reach the 17% reduction from 2005 levels by 2020
And so on.
It will not be an easy task, and it will be all the harder for the resistance to greatness that the Republican party loyalists in Congress cling to. They seek not to address these problems with an eye to solution, but instead to focus on limited agendas to improve the bottom lines of a few corporations.
If President Trump truly wants to make America great, he will have to stave off the legislative assassins who will gut any real reforms he might seek.
Greatness is not a measure of the stock market. It is not found on balance sheets. It is quantifiable, but only in the quantity of humans who are prosperous. And prosperous not for a day, a week, a month, a year, or a presidential term, but for their lives. For their children’s lives. And on down the road.
If President Trump does not address the measures above, and others, he will not have succeeded in making America great. He will be held to that standard by history. He can either go down as another in a line of those he would say to, “You had four years, and yet you did not succeed.”
It is a weighty task. There is much to be done. But it is doable. It has always been doable. It will take a lot of work, but any president that is willing to put in the effort can achieve great things.
So, go ahead, punk. Make America great. I dare Trump. I double-dog dare Trump. What is Trump, a chicken? Bok-bok!
Whatever happened during the 2016 election, Trump is now president. He ran to make the country great, to shed the shrouds that have weakened us. Now he must perform.