Our president-elect has never held a political office. He has no
experience on how government works. He will have to be trained from scratch.
Now we all have been hired for jobs with little or no experience and will
be required on-the-job training. The question is can you become proficient at
your job in 71 days?
It is more than learning where the washroom is or what your hours are or
when are the holidays, this job is more about getting the keys to Air Force 1
and having a guy following you with a suitcase. Those guys surrounding you in
sunglasses aren’t there to keep the paparazzi away.
In this job you will shake more hands, eat more food, get less sleep and
ask more questions than answers. You will have to deal with disgusting
situations and you get to meet the Pope; probably the Dali Lama too. Everything
you do or say will be recorded and translated and analyzed in languages you’ve
never heard of. Thousands of countrymen’s sons and daughters will stand at
attention when you walk into a room. You can’t go to McDonald’s whenever you
want but you can get a chef’s specialty roast beef sandwich whenever.
This job requires knowledge of economics, sociology, science, history,
horticulture, medicine, religion, weaponry, aeronautics and technology, just to
name a few. This job requires persuasion of not only your staff and other
members of your government but others around the world that may not agree with
your presentation. This is the art of the deal.
You will be required to attend more funerals and give sympathy to more
families than anyone on the planet. You will required to stand for photo shoots
with other leaders and attend boring ceremonies all over the world. You must
express your condolences and anger yet it is your job to motivate the country
that things will be better in a civil manner that a 3rd grader could
understand.
You got 71 days to learn all of this before you take your Oath.
Good luck to you and all of us.
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