What would be some pros and cons of Donald Trump becoming president? What would happen if he became President?

PROS:

1. Donald Trump's background has been pretty well examined, and what you see is pretty much what you get, so he isn't an unknown commodity at this point and we probably have seen most of his worst attributes already -- granted, those negative attributes can seem bad, but notice that in any presidential election you could probably make a laundry list of the worst attributes of any candidate and come up with lots of negatives equal to or worse than Trump's;

2. Trump's business experience involves negotiations with business leaders and even governments around the world, and he likely has connections behind the scenes that surpass those of simply purely political candidates -- this gives him keen, realistic insights into economics in different parts of the world, as well as additional avenues to pursue trade agreements, and even perhaps some nuanced awareness of particular financial weaknesses of possible global competitors, not to mention experience and insight into the partnerships and/or antagonism between different industries and particular governments;

3. Trump has a confidence and powerful personality that, like it or not, tend to work well in politics, and make it far less likely he would become too strongly beholden to this or that external influencer -- we complain often about our elected officials being in the pocket of lobbyists and special interests, but Trump is his own special interest and he seems unlikely to let his own sense of personal power and rightness become manipulated or dominated by outside forces;

4. Trump is undeniably a great negotiator, and despite his bombastic public statements he has also mastered the fine art of navigating complex deals and convincing a wide variety of governments, industries, businesses, and investors to do what he wants and to work with him to achieve his goals -- while some might dislike this or that particular goal toward which Trump worked in those instances, as president a large portion of his negotiating would by necessity be in favor of very standard U.S. positions on international issues, and Trump would be applying his skills to push a lot of policies that came through/earned support from a Congress that represents the voters and that has created compromise deals and policies, rather than Trump just out there still negotiating his personal business deals that the public and our representatives weren't involved in;

5. Trump definitely supports free enterprise and favors less regulation of the market, so those who favor more libertarian economic policies might find Trump's views on these matters to be highly positive.


CONS:

1. Despite being well-educated on finance, Trump often seems extremely prone to embrace uninformed positions that turn into major embarrassments for him -- his promotion of the "Obama isn't a U.S. citizen" myth, his promotion of the anti-vaccination myths, and repeated comments that give the appearance (correct or not) that he doesn't check facts or stay informed about serious issues;

2. He's repeatedly made comments that many people felt had racial undertones -- including messages on Twitter asserting that black and Latino citizens commit most violent crimes in major cities, his aforementioned statements questioning Obama's birth and whether he's a Muslim, and other remarks;

3. Trump has been repeatedly accused of being untrustworthy, by investors and buyers as well as others, and some of the accusations include allegations of fraud -- lack of trust and concern about corruption are major problems for a presidential candidate;

4. Trump's leadership in business has allowed him to push his demands through and he's not been surrounded with people who might disagree and even try to oppose him, so he doesn't have experience building a team designed for purposes other than promoting his own narrow agenda and providing information that might be in contrast to his own position and goals -- a president has to compromise, and cannot expect to just do whatever they want while threatening to fire anyone who displeases them;

5. Trump seems impulsive and more interested in self-promotion than necessarily accomplishing significant goals -- even his finances are geared heavily toward promoting his personal brand and making him more money in order to further self-promote, with much of his behavior in public seeming largely motivated by garnering attention;

6. Trump's financial behavior has not always been successful, and in fact he's been through bankruptcy and openly admits manipulating bankruptcy laws to enrich himself at the expense of society and other people, so that he protects himself from risk by getting governments and banks to shoulder more of the burden and let him off the hook more cheaply -- lack of adequate responsibility, coupled with repeated failures on a large scale, plus actual broad lack of experience on Wall Street and with stocks, adds up to undermine his reputation as bringing good financial experience and expertise to the presidency.

There are of course more pros and cons to consider, but these are the primary ones as I see them.
Written Jun 4, 2015 • View Upvotes


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LOl @ number 2 and 4 pro
they are a Con
Trump is a BAD business man he simply has a lot of money but if he just put it in the bank not even a high interest saver he would have made more. than by following his decisions, you would be stupid to let him manage your money.
Trump actually loses money.
he is known not as savvy businessman but as someone that can be easily out manoeuvred and fooled by massaging his ego. with no foresight and no business acumen he is considered 'easy meat' he only has money because of the sheer amount he inherited means you have to lose a LOT just to lose the interest on that sort of wealth (5 times what most people earn in life time in a single year is what you'd get just leaving it the bank). and even Trump's mismanagement has only lost about half the interest.
 
 
And 5 is just ridiculous too
yeah the USA needs to be bend over further to allow corporations to penetrate deeper while they rape the normal people

One of the cons would be that the likes of Walter Palmer would get a medal.

Agree with veya on number 5. The market needs some refulation in order to ensure it benefits the majority of people and to protect the environment.

Add to the cons the fact his relationship with the entire Middle East region would be strained by the comments he has made about Muslims. Absolutely destructive to building stable relationships in the most unstable region of the world.

Eilzel wrote:Agree with veya on number 5. The market needs some refulation in order to ensure it benefits the majority of people and to protect the environment.

Add to the cons the fact his relationship with the entire Middle East region would be strained by the comments he has made about Muslims. Absolutely destructive to building stable relationships in the most unstable region of the world.

and China, he has insulted Asia too.
Plus South America, I mean the man has even insulted Canada

lets face it International relations will be a Strain globally.

You know who has 10 times more Pros



If the USA elects Trump
I'm Learning Mandarin,
Cause USA wil be floundering basket case like Europe.

There's no way Trump will be elected; if you know what the president does, and you know what Trump says he'll do as president, you instantly see he has no idea what the president does.

Ben_Reilly wrote:There's no way Trump will be elected; if you know what the president does, and you know what Trump says he'll do as president, you instantly see he has no idea what the president does.

I am not filled with confidence, that the voting public of the USA does know what a president does?