I'm a New Yorker. We're our own breed. No matter where I go, I'm still a New Yorker, and so is Donald Trump. Because of this I've seen how he's altered my skyline, and I've seen how he's trampled others in the way of that transformation, destroying what was best about their homes, without regard for community and expectations. I've seen where his unethical business dealings have damaged my home city, and the people therein. I've been a spectator to his many bankruptcies as they played out in local media, and highly doubt he is a billionaire even just on paper. It is my understanding that his boards essentially babysit him and give him allowances.
Back in the day, he supported universal health care, and I think I know why. When the concept was introduced to Nixon, the then president had his advisors explain it to him several times, after which he was recorded saying that there was a lot of money to be made if it was done just so. His administration immediately began to press for reform, but it was a dream that died with his disgraceful exit. Fast-forward to my lifetime, when then first lady Rodham Clinton began her extraordinary push for reform. At the time, ignorant of Nixon's history with the concept, I found it exciting and necessary. I now look back upon it with different perspective and a lot of skepticism. I'm jaded. I become more nonplussed, almost apoplectic when I consider the enthusiasm and zeal Trump once had for the idea. I don't know what's worse, his profiteering scheme, or his lying to his supporters about his position on the matter.
As a black woman it is not lost on me that Trump went to one of the whitest towns on his trail and asked for the black vote out of one corner of his mouth, and dismissed our issues regarding institutionalized and systemic racism out of the other. Disgusting.
He makes up lies? Well they all do, so that's besides the point. He makes up lies that are dangerous on a global level. That is not acceptable.
He campaigns on the notion that America needs a good, businessman, a self-made man at the helm. He neglects to admit that he is neither self made nor solvent. He could prove solvency, were he solvent, through revealing his taxes as is traditional. His claim that he can't because of auditing is disingenuous at best. The IRS already sees his tax forms. He would not at all be waiving his 5th ammendment rights by making public that which is already firmly evident to the government. It makes no sense.
He's a dispicable candidate. He says awkward things that imply sexual attraction to his favorite daughter. He says hateful and sexist things to and about women in his orbit. He lacks empathy and compassion. The only presidential trait he possesses is charisma, and that is simply not enough.
I would sooner consent to sex with an uncut, overripe pineapple than vote for Donald Trump.
The Democrats have not put forth an acceptable candidate either. I'll be casting my vote for Johnson. Libertarians can be a little scary for people in my racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groupings, but I believe the good outweighs the bad where this year's candidate is concerned. Besides, he was a Republican until very recently, and as a left-leaning centrist, moderate Republicans have never been too much trouble for me to accept.