What Would You Say to the Newly Elected President?

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Aaron, I understand what you are trying to say, but, I must take exception with your last paragraph. You state that Mr. Trump has the "exact opposite track record" of honesty, hard working, loving, loyalty, and family-based character traits. You indicate that the traits of dishonesty, lack of hard-work, non-loving, disloyalty and non-family-based behavior are the character traits that voted him into the office of POTUS. You indicate having difficulty explaining this to your daughters, the correct and decent way to live their lives when a man with an "exact opposite track record" could reach the highest office in the world? Before this post becomes too political, Would you care, Sir, to perhaps amend you last statement for clarity?

I agree with a great majority of his ideals. I think he will actually be good on many fronts for this country. And he will care so much about his approval rating - combine that with the fact he's not overly owned by any partisan - I think he's got tremendous potential to take us the direction he wants, and adjust fire if need be to go to the best place possible. As a business negotiator, he will have an end state in mind, and will be able to compromise certain angles so that every party involved walks away from the table feeling some could can come out of it. That I support!

My last statement was purely on a personal level. Perhaps I'm old fashioned, and perhaps I outdate myself thinking family values matters in a day of highlights and social media... The President was married, cheated openly and proudly - he was on the cover of playboy magazine back when that was fringe risky - he then remaried, cheated again, and found a third wife. He's done things to people that as a SHARP Rep would leave me extremely busy helping the people he's felt throughout the years that he has every right to violate. I'll leave aside shady business practices - there's probably little difference in that than the shady political dealings of others - business dealings that have perhaps led several completely ruined while his organizations got ahead - but that's business. To me, it's the integrity, honor, loyalty, respect, and all the personal morals that scare me - to a point our children will grow up in a society where all those actions are accepted, overlooked, or ignored. I raise my children, not the teachers, friends, or TV, but to have our leader with such blurred moral lines is a tough sell - especially when not many others seem to care. As I said, perhaps I'm just getting old fashioned. Great Generals have been relieved for questionable character, but because the polarization or our partisan political seasons, those morales are now in the Oval Office and any examination of this man's character is promoted as an endorsement of someone even worse. Family Values will be pushed to the back burner.

I personally think he will be a great President. He has some tremendous advantages over others and an ability to find success - a track record of success. Deep down, I also think he is falling in line nicely with established GOP and will lead us in the right direction. The country is not in bad shape at all, despite what the conflict-driven media will have us believe, and I really am excited about various opportunities we face.

So if I was allowed to ask one questions, I would ask straight forward, how do I explain to my daughters to stay away from people with a proven track record of infidelity, adultery, harassment, absentee fatherhood by choice, and perhaps even worse - when those people are in fact becoming the most prominent people on earth. Do the ends justify the means? Do the results of public success outweigh misaligned private actions? How do I steer them to the right side of morality when the Oval Office could be the result of the opposite?