POST 23: Is or Isn't President Trump is a good leader according to Machiavelli.

In Machiavelli's The Prince he talks about what it takes to be the ideal ruler.
From the Elections to now, i would say that based on Machiavelli's teachings Trump has not been a good leader. According to Machiavelli, "the prince must consider, as has been in part said
before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches." (252) Since being Elected president Trump has not done anything to make the people not hate or find him contemptible. He has also equally failed i fulfilling any of the promises he made prior to him taking over  as president of the United States.

Apart from not coming through on any of his promises, President Trump has also been known to have a deeply misogynistic attitude. His vulgar, rude and insulting comments about women go against everything Machiavelli talked about. As a leader, "It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain."(252) During the Elections, Trump appeals to the emotional resentment people have in order to cast himself as a sort of protest candidate against the status quo. Trump harnesses this frustration and turns it against a fabricated "other" or "them and us", in this case immigrants, Muslims, racial minorities, and women all become his victims.

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  1. Kimitre RhodesApril 15, 2017 at 10:28 AM

    I agree with you Trump has not been a good leader. He is rude and inconsiderate. He does not care about all the families he has hurt by banning people to come to and leave America. Also building that wall at the Mexican border just shows people that he racists.

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  2. UnknownApril 15, 2017 at 6:51 PM

    I absolutely agree with you because his actions cause so much hatred towards him.

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