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sheshe2

(83,355 posts)
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 10:26 PM Jun 2017

Trump flunks US Army's own leadership standards



How unfit for the presidency is Donald Trump? The term “unfit” has been bandied about quite a lot since January 2017, when Trump was sworn in to office. But how, exactly, do we define “unfit”  as the term applies specifically to the presidency of the United States? We can look to the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but it lacks a clear definition, stating only that the President can be removed if he "is unable to discharge the powers and duties" of the office.

We all know that Trump ran for president by saying that he was a great CEO and that he'd run the country like a business. I have my doubts about his effectiveness as a business leader. But even if he is somehow as good as he has bragged about, a president is not a CEO [he has yet to figure this out], nor is the White House a mob-family compound. Presidents of the United States need a completely different set of skills and personality traits from presidents of family owned real-estate conglomerates with no accountability, bosses of crime syndicates and "Dear Leaders" of authoritarian regimes.

But what are those skills? In a recent Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times, psychiatrist Prudence L. Gourguechon describes her search through professional literature for definitions of leadership – a search that led to many descriptions of business leadership, but few that defined the characteristics needed to carry out  the “powers and duties” of the presidency.

She finally found what she was looking for in a most intriguing place: The U.S. Army’s Field Manual , which contains a 135-page subsection [FM-22, published in 2015] entitled, “Leader Development.” After studying the document [so we don’t have to], Gorguechon distilled the Army’s criteria for high-level, strategic leadership into the five categories quoted below.

While it's tempting to cite examples of Trump's unfit behaviors regarding each of these traits, there are simply too many to list -- and even the most casual observer of the man's words and actions knows what we're talking about here. So, I'm going to quote Gorguechon without comment and let you remember your own favorite, illustrative moments from the Trump presidency so far.

Trust
Discipline and self-control
Judgment and critical thinking
Self-awareness
Empathy

Oh Please Read the Rest: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/18/1672949/-Trump-flunks-US-Army-s-own-leadership-standards

Trump by the US Army's standards gets a failing grade. He flunked and is floundering.
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Trump flunks US Army's own leadership standards (Original Post) sheshe2 Jun 2017 OP
Thank you for posting this, my dear sheshe! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2017 #1
Thanks Peggy. sheshe2 Jun 2017 #2
I believe that he flunks the standards of decent humanity as well. n/t Kleveland Jun 2017 #3
Ya got that right, Kleveland. sheshe2 Jun 2017 #4
each military person should ask "am I willing to die because of this man"? msongs Jun 2017 #5
Good question. sheshe2 Jun 2017 #6
My Army husband got out last year AwakeAtLast Jun 2017 #7
republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is unfit Achilleaze Jun 2017 #8
Of course he does Lee-Lee Jun 2017 #9

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,308 posts)
1. Thank you for posting this, my dear sheshe!
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 10:38 PM
Jun 2017

I saw a very similar article in today's LATimes but forgot to post it. It's excellent. The author allows the reader to draw her/his own conclusions.



K&R

AwakeAtLast

(14,112 posts)
7. My Army husband got out last year
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 09:15 AM
Jun 2017

Can't believe our luck in timing. Of course, he went in after 9/11, so maybe we're not that lucky...

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
9. Of course he does
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 09:48 AM
Jun 2017

Was that even ever in doubt?

Honestly most politicians do. Even the ones I like mostly couldn't hack being a leader in the military.

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