POTUS

I can’t sleep so I decided to rant in here. Bear with me. haha

I’ve been busy and lots of things kept me occupied. This weekend I managed to visit my best friend’s and her newborn in another state. I didn’t get to see the baby just yet, he was in special care newborn unit and only parents are allowed to go in. So I guess I’ll visit them again in few weeks. And today was my cousin’s engagement day. The whole day was busy. Then at night time, I managed to catch an episode of this Netflix series, The Crown.

And now is way beyond my bedtime (I sleep really early especially if tomorrow is working day) but I just can’t sleep. My mind is preoccupied with lots of things too; work, life stuff, random stuff etc. Anyhow, few days ago was election day for Americans and we all know Donald Trump is elected to be POTUS.

I didn’t really religiously follow the chronology of this election. I watched one debate and mostly I read news from the media. Safe to say, I fell victim to the idea of how the media wants us to see Trump, an idiot. It was deliberately misconstrued. I stop at that. I didn’t really dig deep on that.

Although I am actually open to anything (I don’t limit my reading to anything, any views whatsoever), I don’t really understand political views in America. So I see him just as how media portrays him. You know how media is a champion of manipulating things? It’s the same concept everywhere, even in my own country. So when he won the election, I was baffled on the idea of him winning the presidency. My initial reaction was that he played the racism, sexism card very well. I believed he tackled on their (Sexist, racist, misogynist etc) emotion well enough to win their votes. And I even believed those who voted him were those rural area voters. Pardon me for such generalization.

I am not American and I was on neither side. Not Trump nor Clinton. But I was thinking like people would vote for Clinton considering she has political experiences and whatnot. After Trump won, I read a LOT. It was an eye-opening moment for me that I began to understand how and why people voted for Trump. I see him in a different perspective. From someone with the least possibility to run a country to someone who has merit and capability of such. I see that as much as people hate issue on racism, sexism and all that, people hated political correctness even more. These people grew tired of all that coming from politicians, all those hypocrisy. And Trump himself is not an idiot but media manipulated his words. I watched Trump’s winning speech, it was not that bad. He seems genuine and he really cares about America and he wants to make America great again. Probably having a businessman running a country isn’t that bad. At least he is a realist and knows how to work hard, how to achieve things, a goal-oriented type rather than having someone who is just all talks and being subtle and juicy about the crimes they themselves created.

But it’s too early to tell. He could be a blessing in disguise but he could even be an evil. Only time can tell. If he’s all about making the country great again, it’s fine but if he’s all about banning Muslims, immigrants and all that, then we’re all doomed.

All I can say is that give him time and see what he does.

Anyway, after he won, lots of memes about him and there’s this particular one that was funny. They replaced Dormammu to Trump and was like “Donald Trump, I’ve come to bargain”. I’d imagined that scene from Doctor Strange every time it comes out and laugh. Haha

Well I should now force myself to sleep. I’m gonna be busy at office tomorrow anyway. Good night

Update: I have no idea where this is going. I mean look at Trump these days. Unbelievable! I wonder if Trump is really an idiot or was it all just an act? Hahaa