This post comes after an almost three
year hiatus on posts at jackhaffey.blogspot.com.
The Donald Trump Presidency: Hoping
For the Best.
Following his electoral college
victory in November, 2016, we decided to give time to see how Donald Trump
conducted himself as the newly elected president before talking more about
getting capitalism right – and about him in the context of leadership with our
capitalism done right model.
A Note: In brief, our model is outward-focused, long term and value optimizing for the six primary stakeholder groups of every organization -domestic and global. The dominant capitalism model for the last 50 years or so has been the Professor Milton Friedman model, which holds that the only purpose of a company is profit, to make money for the owners. It is inward-focused, dominantly short term and win-lose.
Our capitalism-done-right thoughts apply to all organizations. Governments are, of course, very significant “organizations”
themselves and the proposed paradigm applies to them as well, as we have said
throughout our posts. In fact, our proposed paradigm of capitalism done right
(really, think of it more broadly as organizations doing right) applies to
companies, governments and all organizations around the world.
Because this conceptual and
behavioral paradigm that gets capitalism right applies to all organizations –
including governments – it seemed right and fair that we should take some time
to see whether the new president and his administration could or would rise to
the level we assert is necessary to create excellence.
Or whether, on the other hand, our
prediction about then-candidate Trump in our October 23, 2016 post proved spot
on correct. (our post is at jackhaffey.blogspot.com).
The Presidency of the United States
of America should be among a handful of government executive branch
servant-leadership models around the world worthy of emulation. The Declaration of Independence
and the United States Constitution provide a perfect guiding framework that
fits our model for leadership that will produce long term excellence –
domestically and globally - in all foreign and international relations.
This specific president, Donald
Trump, gave us an opportunity to check on whether his concept of leadership and
organizational purpose – and conduct – fits our model.
It is now clear it does not. Indeed,
his way is the antithesis of our way, our model.
Conclusion and Verdict.
Sadly but predictably, we were “spot
on correct!”
President Trump, you must read that
10/23/2016 post. It will set your hair on fire!
It is a sad commentary on our
democratic system here in the United States that the real needs and hopes of
all Americans, and the more pressing hopes and needs of various sectors of our
population (people in poverty, people harmed economically by job loss due to technological and
related changes, people seeking a more forceful advocate for certain religious
or rights-based issues, people concerned about the appropriate policies on
immigration, etc.) could have their concerns be preyed upon and pandered to by
such an inward-focused amoral, apolitical narcissist. We deserve so much better. The entire world deserves and needs so much better from our president. The world looks to us for wise servant leadership.
But here we are, in the summer of
2019 and the Trump administration, led by this uniquely selfish person
Donald Trump, has established itself as one-of-a-kind BAD. SO TRAGIC!
Therefore we must conclude
that our post criticizing you as candidate Trump on October 23, 2016 at
jackhaffey.blogspot.com has been ratified and affirmed as spot on prophetic by
your presidency, Donald Trump, day in and day out, from the moment of your
inauguration.
You have not let us down, President
Trump. In fact, you have been more inept, disordered and unfit than we ever
could have predicted.
So, thank you, President Trump.
Using your own style of teasing and persuading (underlined), you are even worse than we anticipated – that
much we can tell you.
Many people have been telling us you
have it in you to be so much worse.
We should hope not.
We will see.
You have already set our country
back thousands of years, domestically and globally. You might not know it, but
we have only been a nation for about 250 years. So, use your big brain and
genius attributes, along with your fertile and delusional self-concept, to
figure that one out.
By the way, your name is mentioned about 10 times in this post – High Fives!
