Donald and the Peter Principle ....

[Miigwech]

Do you think the Donald is the epitome of the Peter Principle in action? Seems like it to me. He should never have taken the promotion to head the Republican party nor be President ..... he is way above his head and abilities. The blowhard thinks because he has been successful as a business man (not actually true) that he can do any job. Sorry Mr. Fatbutt, but you ain't. Ruthlessness is all he has got in his tool box to try to win.

[Buzz Clik]

1. He's president already?

I'll be.

[Miigwech]

3. No ....

clever .....but alot of fools wish that he will be. The half information crowd are the ones hoping to give him the promotion, he is half way there as head of the Republican party. We are in dangerous times.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

2. He's a Reagan acolyte. Why would he do anything more than sell his administration's policies. His

cabinet will do the heavy lifting. He'll listen, go with one policy or another, then mug for the cameras. The few international trips he makes will be photo opts. For anything important, he'll send his SOS.

He's qualified to be President. Not every President gets his hands into the sausage making.

[Miigwech]

4. He is qualified?

He is the septic tank back flowing into your house .... that is a big smelly problem.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

5. What does he have to do?

[sofa king]

6. We can see by comparing the last two Presidents.

George W. Bush was a professional playboy could barely read a teleprompter. Yes, he could read, but he didn't like to, which is functional illiteracy. He forced the most important regularly generated intelligence document, the Presidential Daily Briefing, to be condensed into USA Today-style bullet points, because he couldn't handle actual sentences.

Bush was a fucking moron.

And it shows. Bush's subordinates committed so many crimes they are still trying to outrun them seven years later. Those criminal subordinates controlled the White House by spoon-feeding Bush a series of "choices," all of which could be warped to fit whatever it was that the people in actual charge wanted to do. He was The Decider, running America by multiple-choice question. But the Vice President who did the actual deciding lives in Dubai now, to avoid paying taxes on the billions he was bribed with while in office.

And it nearly destroyed America. It cost us millions of jobs. It cost us millions of homes. It tossed millions of people out of the middle class and into poverty. It wounded and permanently scarred hundreds of thousands of American men and women in the fires of unjust war. It pumped the strategic petroleum reserve out of the ground for the profit of individual Texans. It destroyed American credibility and lowered our standing in the world.

President Barack Obama is the polar opposite. A Constitutional scholar, he reads a new book every day.

He directs and shapes policy, rather than chooses among pre-generated options. His subordinates were chosen for competence and honesty rather than loyalty, and there hasn't been one Bush-level scandal among them (even the Clinton email scandal, involving 2000 emails, pales in comparison to the systematic destruction of 22 million emails during the Bush years).

It allowed America to recover. It has restored jobs. It recovered homes. It pulled people (sadly, not millions, but some) out of poverty. It ended wars. It restored American credibility and raised our standing in the world.

(I should add that I am disappointed that President Obama is such a moderate. I admire his ability, not his politics.)

That's the difference. A smart and competent and realistic President led America back to greatness. A foolish and narcissistic President allowed America to wander to the brink of destruction. Trump is a foolish and narcissistic person. His Presidency would be as criminally unbridled as Bush's, except they learned how to be better criminals under Bush. So they will be more effective at destroying America, and this time, they might well succeed entirely.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

9. It really isn't that deep. The question you're answering is

Will he be the worst President?

Let's look at the last 2 presidents. Was Obama more qualified than Governor Bush? According to Hillary, Obama was "naive" and according to Bill, Obama's presidential run was a "fairytale." (Would anyone but a black man running for president be treated that way?) But, in the end, Obama did listen to Bill and replace all of his advisors with Bill's.

[sofa king]

10. Okay, I see what you mean.

The job is just as open to illiterate despots as it is to intellectual scholars.

In fact, almost everyone here who has had a legal job in America has met more stringent requirements than a President has to meet.

But I still maintain that Bush was unqualified for the job and went on to prove it, disastrously. Donald Trump is the exact same kind of disordered personality, and we can now safely assume that his Presidency would be a continuation of that same disaster.

[Mira]

7. Had not thought of it in that way

but now that i do he is the quintessential example of it. Good catch!

[3catwoman3]

8. With a little side dish of...

...the Dunning-Kruger effect tossed in.

BTW, the potential double entendre in the opening sentence of the OP, Donald and the Peter Principle, is absolutely begging for all the witty punsters here at DU to chime in.