Donald Trump is a businessman. Will he make a great President? This is the business case.
Throughout the election campaign, Hillarity Clingon kept pressing the fact that Donald Trump has no government experience.
To quote Hillarity's most famous lines, what difference does it make? What difference does it make that Hillarity does have experience? Obviously, the mechanics of a position are more familiar if you've been around them for a while, but it's rather like the Ritz hotel in London advertising the fact that they are near a Starbucks as one of their major selling points. What??? Who gives a monkey's about that? It's irrelevant.
Naturally, knowing the ropes would make things run a little smoother, but when you're in business you often have to learn on the job, as it were. Every situation is different - every customer is different - and to act in one situation as you did in another could have the situation practice some impromptu dentistry upon you.
Besides, having only the rudiments as a guide is often a great source of innovation. If you have the established to guide you, it's always a temptation to run your schemes along already-lain tracks rather than to lay your own. After all, that way is easy but, as Einstein reminded us, one popular definition of insanity is to do the same thing and expect different results. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got: everyone knows that. And Trump is a game-changer: he's proven that by defying all expectations to become the President-Elect.
Some novice.
Perhaps The Don took a leaf out of Sir Clive Sinclair's book. When Sir Clive was developing the ZX series of computers in the late 1970s, he took the essentials of computer architecture, the rudiments, the bare bones, and clothed them in his image. The result was, of course, ground-breaking, and the ZX 81 and ZX Spectrum computers remain high on every geek's list of deities. Either way, running the United States is not going to be that different from running a large multi-national corporation, many of which are perhaps as large as some smaller countries. The President is the Chairman and, perhaps, Managing Director, the Cabinet the board of directors. Each of these directors has a speciality, and each their ability to delegate, sub-delegate and the rest. The company has its objectives as does the country and, whilst economics might weigh more heavily for the company, it's not an insignificant part of the country's palette.
I believe it was Bill Clinton, in his 1992 election race, who said "it's the economy, stupid" (as opposed to his 2016 motto I'm with Stupid) - and indeed if you've got the beans, you've got the means, as it were. Economic success will open more doors than a house-to-house chauffeur, and this is where the genius of the business-government crossover lurks. Of course, that Trump has more plans than making the American economy great is crême-Anglais on the apple pie, salt on those there hominy-grits, ketchup with that Macdieselburger, but the way he's going to do that is firstly down to bringing home the bacon.
And he's got previous for that.
What do you think? Is President Donald Trump going to be like Reagan crossed with God? Or is he going to be better than that? As always, let us know in the comments, like and share like you know the drill.
