I’m not sure about you, but I wasn’t too keen on seeing Donald Trump fall into second place at Iowa’s caucus this past week. That’s a little too close for comfort. Maybe that’s a testimony as to why he’s still in this race. Unfortunately, there are many uninformed voters in the United States of America and Trump continues to dominate conversation and entertainment worldwide. He’s nothing more than a selfish businessman with little to know about foreign policy among numerous other skills to purely represent America. He’s downright asinine. Sadly, the presidential campaign has failed to suppress his horrendous opinions, and they continue on through platforms, comments, and interviews.   

Through his campaign for the 2016 election alone, Trump has demoralized and objectified women (which doesn’t surprise anyone), failed to maintain professionalism on all mediums, has discriminated against numerous groups of people and has also shown mass amounts of racism towards other groups of Americans. If our own president won’t stand up for our citizens, who is going to? Hate shouldn’t be an American value, and Trump blatantly disagrees.

“Making America great again” is a slogan that I can’t wrap my head around. Not to say that America isn’t broken, because there are plenty of things that need reform and revision, but Trump isn’t the ‘fixer-upper’ we need. Attacking numerous civil liberties, stripping away women’s rights and remaining oblivious and ignorant to many environmental and foreign issues don’t seem to be things that our Founding Fathers would have wanted for their future government.

I suppose it’s reasonable to focus on a few areas that might be among his most rational thoughts. Some of his more sensible platforms revolve around creating more jobs in America instead of outsourcing them and focusing on economic growth without relying on other nations. This seems to be the only opinion that I can settle with. Job growth has always been a position that candidates concern themselves with, however, every candidate does this. What makes Trump any different?

Some of these outrageous platforms consist of cutting Common Core education spending, stating climate change is nothing but a hoax, and directly bombing ISIS. Cutting Common Core education strips away the learning of core studies including mathematics and English language arts. Common Core testing standardizes benchmarks across states which mainly urges staff and students to strive for a common benchmark goal.

Continuously so, Trump demonstrates his mass oblivion on climate change. Ignorance isn’t an American value that epitomizes presidential image either. Instead of showing ignorance, inaccuracy and idiocrasy on these subjects, it’s time to start placing our polling points elsewhere. For the safety of you and everyone else, I think we’d rather approach bombing ISIS differently. Perhaps this is where a foreign policy brush up would benefit Trump.

When I think of a president, I think of someone on my side, my neighbor’s side and my family’s side—not someone tearing all of us down separately for different reasons such as gender, sexuality, and race. When did hate and fear become a United States value, better yet, where does hate fit into ‘making America great again’? Donald Trump fails to embody the unique differences that Americans have long sought to stand for. Hate will not be an American value.