Is it too much to ask...

[WiffenPoof]

...that our President be decent human being?

I mean, he continues to act like a bully, a petulant child.

I have a lot of requirements of my President. I want him/her to be intelligent, compassionate, a dynamic leader, etc. If you can't be any of those things, you can at least be a decent person.

Donald Trump is simply not a decent man. He fails in this, the most basic of requirements.

What a disgusting human being.

[jodymarie aimee]

1. you just figured this out NOW??

well, better late than never I guess..

[WiffenPoof]

12. No need to get snippy....

Of course I didn't just figure this out.

If you must know it came from an essay I was writing which was essentially "A Letter To Those Who Voted For Trump."

I had seen what seemed to be an endless number of descriptive words when attempting to define Donald Trump. For me it came down to what it meant took be a decent human being. I mean would you have this person be counted as one of your friends?

The term "decency"seemed to cover all the bases.

Reminded me of the judge who confronted Joe McCarthy during a session of the House On Unamerican Activities... Something like:

"Have you no decency, at long last?"!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. Not at all, WiffenPoof.

I suspect his behavior comes from being raised as a person of privilege and virtually never leaving his ivory tower.

One litmus test for being a decent man or woman is to ask "how would this person be received out in the general public as an everyday worker or companion?".

In my world, he would be thrown out on his ear. The folks that raised me would take a hickory switch to him for bad behavior, or simply run him out of town.

In his world, his wealthy and power-hungry companions probably think he's perfectly OK.

[xxqqqzme]

3. A base test question

my husband and I used was to ask 'Would we go camping with this person?'

I saved a lot of time and energy.

[LakeArenal]

4. Way too much to ask....

[lastlib]

5. I think of the scene in the original 'True Grit' movie.....

...when Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) tells Mattie about his wife leaving him:

"...she said, 'Goodbye, Reuben, the love of decency does not abide in you.'" I'm sure that AnusMouth's previous wives (and maybe his current one, too!) would say the same thing about this pResiDunce. The love of decency does not abide in him.

[njcpa1978]

13. The wedding vows were:

You must pretend to love him until death do you part, or until some other gold digger comes along who can pretend better than you can.

Amen.

[pwb]

6. He always looks constipated.

Never smiling or happy. Like all republicans trying too look tough when they have probably never been in a fight or punched in the face. Wusses.

[Martin Eden]

7. Indecent. Ignorant. Malignant narcissist. Pathological liar. Racist.

Those are among the core characteristics of this pResident.

[DownriverDem]

8. trump reflects

his supporters. I am disgusted every day with him in the WH.

[yardwork]

9. Ask the people who allowed him to become president.

It's been obvious for several years - at the very least - that Trump is not a decent person. Everybody who voted for him, everybody who voted third party, everybody who stayed home or wrote in Mickey Mouse instead of voting for the Democrat knew or should have known that Trump isn't a decent person.

I have no patience for people who are just now figuring that out.

[njcpa1978]

10. And if you saw HRC on Rachel Maddow -

You had to be saying to yourself, we could have had Hillary. She stepped through the major issues facing the country with insight, understanding the players on the world stage, explaining positions clearly and mindful of the consequences. What did we get a POS POTUS.

[StevieM]

11. Yes. It is. You are asking him for something that he is simply not capable of. (eom)