Reacting to Trump as Republican Nominee for American Presidency

America, WTF? No, seriously, WTF?! Did you guys get tired of having a sensible, optimistic, respectable and cool president, aka Barack Obama? Do you miss having an entertaining, giant bag of comic material like Bush as your Commander-in-Chief? 

 Back in 2015 when I heard that Donald Trump was going to run for president, I'd laughed it off as a joke that will end soon while my dad with his years of experience said to me that Trump could actually win. Horrifyingly, to me and to him, he wasn't wrong. While I haven't paid much detailed attention to the American presidential race, its hard to ignore the highlights that have been the screw ups of the Republican party and the rise of Donald Trump. 

 For what I know, all with the exception of Jeb Bush, every Republican nominee has been a nutcase in his or her own right. A couple of names are clearly remembered, Dr. Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and the last to lose, Ted Cruz. But the biggest and loudest bigoted whackjob, Trump has pulled ahead and become the defacto Republican Nominee. Trump, who bans people from recording stuff at his rallies so they cannot share with the world the outlandishly idiotic and mad things he says. He has a great number of supporters simply for promising to build a giant wall along the border of USA & Mexico to stop illegal immigrants, and for the banning of entry to all Muslims. He actually said on an interview that he thought his daughter was so hot, he would bang her if she weren't his daughter. THAT is the man who could become the President of USA. 

 Time for some Trump memes now





The comedians are overflowing with material on Trump, but the joke is close to becoming a horrific reality. He is a threat to logic and reasoning and many of the people's freedoms in the US and to the world. I can't even imagine how the Rest of the World would put up with him at International diplomatic events and how quickly relations would deteriorate between America and its partner nations. British PM David Cameron has already made his views on Trump clear, and even tried to get him banned from visiting the UK, but unfortunately didn't get enough votes to make it a reality.

 On the other side, it is up to the Democrats to stop this end-of-the-world kind of scenario from becoming a reality, but neither of their remaining choices seem to have a backing to guarantee Trump's defeat. Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, one of whom will be America's best shot to save themselves from certain chaos and international embarrassment, need to pack heavy with policy and popularity if they want to defeat the bigotry, racism & ignorance of America that is personified in Trump. 

 The world is headed for interesting times, and I feel it may be best to wait and watch from my room in India before I make long term plans to maybe move into the western world. 
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