{"id":3513,"date":"2016-10-16T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2022-12-26T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T19:09:11","slug":"you-hate-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=3513","title":{"rendered":"You Hate Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/damiengaleone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3514 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/damiengaleone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"trump\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/damiengaleone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/damiengaleone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/damiengaleone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/damiengaleone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/damiengaleone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/trump.jpg?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>About two years ago, I gave up the word <em>hate<\/em>. Similar to its cousin <em>love<\/em>, I found that I was using hate too often and inaccurately. I don\u2019t hate mushrooms, I just don\u2019t eat them. I further found that using <em>hate<\/em> too often, made me feel negative. To instantly use it as my go-to reaction was too easy and just made things more unpleasant than they needed to be.<\/p>\n<p>So for two years, I have lived <em>hate<\/em> free.<\/p>\n<p>After long and careful consideration, I have decided to take the word <em>hate<\/em> out of retirement to say this:<\/p>\n<p>I Hate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And you do too.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you are voting for him, you hate him. Just think about it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->When was the last time you had to deal with someone who never ever admitted they were wrong? How did you react when your colleague was totally in the wrong, acted foolishly, and refused to take responsibility for his actions, apologize, or simply recognize that he had made a mistake?<\/p>\n<p>Did you like that person?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>You shouldn\u2019t have, anyway. People who don&#8217;t take responsibility for their actions have no integrity, people who don&#8217;t recognize their mistakes don&#8217;t grow. Is that what you want in the person running your department or the company where you work? Of course not. Everyone makes mistakes, admitting them and taking responsibility for them takes guts.<\/p>\n<p>When you were a kid if you weren\u2019t a bully, you had a bully. We all did. Like all bullies, ours was a thin-skinned baby. Whenever the tables were turned on him, he literally ran home and got his mommy.<\/p>\n<p>This is Trump. He bullies like a mean-spirited bag of wind, spouting lies against all against him, and when someone snaps back, he yells that they are mean to him or that they attacked him. You can almost picture him running to tell his mommy.<\/p>\n<p>Did you like your bully?<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s a bully and if you had to deal with him personally, you would hate him.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up with a kid who was a terrible sport. When he was winning one of our street games (hockey, baseball, football) he mocked others, rubbed it in, ran up the score. But the <em>very<\/em> second he was on the losing side, he complained, accused, pointed fingers, and blamed others. He became a grumpy and bitter sore loser, crossing his arms over his chest, pouting, and then storming away shouting an inevitable, \u201cI quit!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every time Trump gets outgunned in a debate or in any way, he points fingers and makes excuses. Nothing is ever his fault. It was that guy\u2019s fault or this lady\u2019s fault. He would throw his mother under a bus to save his own ass or to pathetically and desperately attempt to make himself look better. He has done exactly this to his own running mate, people outside of the political game, and several people in his own party.<\/p>\n<p>Do you like the back stabbers, sore losers, and bad sports in your life? I sure as hell don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>If Donald Trump was a person in your life, you would hate him. Because most people don\u2019t like a self-serving blowhard bully who pathologically lies, blames his mistakes on others, and never admits his missteps.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t want to spend five minutes in a room with him, so I will say it once more and then I will put the word <em>hate<\/em> back into retirement. This time, I hope, permanently.<\/p>\n<p>I Hate Donald Trump. And so do you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two years ago, I gave up the word hate. 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