Character is destiny, and Donald Trump's character is ours
Without undertaking a psychological inquiry into his emotional well-being, we know a lot about President Trump's character, based on what he says and writes about himself, not to mention what we've seen from him over four decades as a public figure. He is boastful (he brags about it). He's transactional. He's hypermaterialistic, and he cares a great deal about appearance. His relationship to the truth is, at best, shaky (he brags about that, too). He likes conflict and unpredictability. He believes that admitting error is a sign of weakness and that he should hit back 10 times as hard at his critics. He doesn't like to read, doesn't care much about policy details, and makes decisions from the gut.
These are not the kind of values and attributes I'd like to pass on to my children, but there's no question that they have brought Donald Trump great success, including propelling him to unlikely victory in a presidential campaign.
But these character traits are not serving Trump well as president, and they are threatening the country. It is character even more than policy that has immersed Trump in an unprecedented parade of scandals. It is character as much as policy that is most imperiling our nation.
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Most elected officials run for office out of a sense of public service, but they also tend to have very healthy egos. Still, as he himself says, President Trump is not like other politicians. He is a character unlike others, and his character is unlike others. As a result, we're destined to lurch from crisis to crisis, peril to peril, as long as he is president.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/15/character-destiny-donald-trumps-character
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