President Trump Pros And Cons

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Being the President of the greatest nation ever is no easy task, the person put in that position has been put on a pedestal no higher and they are viewed as the leader of the nation. In resulting in being in the public’s microscope, watching every move and decision they make. With being under the consent watch by the public and media, even the darkest secrets and controversial decisions that the President makes will come to the light. Both former President Nixon and current President Trump had, in which in President Trump’s case have, a controversy that looms over their presidency. So far, each president have a similar presidency and both have their presidency faith on the singular decision in both cases causing a national controversy. …show more content…

President Trump became what many young people consider the “Kardashian of Politics”. The leader of the nation has been upon the public’s eye ever since his show called the “Apprentice” in which allowed him to become a name that began to sour in the minds of the public. It seems to be the sole purpose of the media is now to deliver all the Pres. Trump’s tweets to a national broadcast for the public can dissect. As soon as the President was put into office there has been an overwhelming pile of negativity upon the president. As Jennifer Harper states, “‘As President Trump approaches the end of his first 100 days in office, he has received by far the most hostile press treatment of any incoming American president, with the broadcast networks punishing him with coverage that has been 89 percent negative,’wrote Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella, both analysts for Newsbusters.org, a conservative press watchdog.” This shows how much negativity the media tried to release upon the public and to put it into perspective what the media puts out the public blindly consumes and follows. Both former President Nixon and current President Trump have their presidency on the hot seat by the negativity by the media and overwhelming dislike from the …show more content…

Richard Nixon’s party was the Republican party so of course he felt he was a better candidate for the nation than the candidates who represented the democratic party. But Richard Nixon didn’t commit his crime because of his feeling of being the better option for the presidency, he committed his crime out of fear as Dylan Matthews once again states, “ ...is that Nixon was worried that O'Brien knew about his financial dealings with billionaire tycoon Howard Hughes, for whom O'Brien served as a lobbyist in addition to his DNC duties. A large loan from Hughes to Nixon's brother had become an issue in the 1960 presidential race (which Nixon lost narrowly), and when Nixon took office in 1969, Hughes reportedly gave him $100,000 (about $650,000 today) by way of the president's friend Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, some of which, a 60 Minutes report alleged, went toward Nixon's house in Florida. If that was in fact what the money was used for, it'd be natural for Nixon to fear what O'Brien could do with that knowledge.” This quote shows Nixon to be insecure with the fact that when his enemies have a step on him and he would do anything to stop that. Matthew’s statement also made Nixon to continuous in how he would look like in the public’s view and more likely viewed the negative perception to be more likely. Nixon tried to bug his