At the end of July, famed Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan wrote a scathing commentary on President Trump’s character entitled, “Trump is Woody Allen without the Humor.” In it, she likened the failure of the president to bring congress together, pass the Health Care Bill, or accomplish any form of foreign policy or diplomacy work to the fact that he is a drama queen. “The president’s primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash, or naïve. It’s not that he is inexperienced, crude, or an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling,” Noonan wrote.

If it was said of George H. W. Bush that he reminded everyone of their first husband, Noonan says, “Trump must remind people of their first wife.” However, rather than associate Trump’s behavior and character with that of women—who as far as I’m concerned and as evidenced by his own wife have far more dignity than he does—it’s more accurate to liken his character to that of a child.

Noonan argues that the reason the president is struggling to obtain a positive approval rating and maintain a consistent team is because he is ignoring “traditional norms and forms of American masculinity.” Rather than being stoic and strong, he is whiny and self-pitying, easy to take offense and quick to speak without thinking. These behaviors are not just “unmanly,” they are extremely immature. They are the behaviors of a child who is frustrated and gets fussy when they don’t get what they want.

Recall the Republican Presidential Townhall where Anderson Cooper asked Donald Trump to explain why he retweeted a sexist and unflattering picture of Ted Cruz’s wife. The president’s response? “I thought it was a nice picture.” After Cooper further prodded the candidate, Trump resorted to a default response that many parents are familiar with hearing from their children, “He started it.” Even Cooper couldn’t overlook that response, calling it the argument of a five-year-old.

He was right, but that’s the character the now president displays. He insults people who don’t agree with him or give him what he wants, anyone who calls him out is deemed a liar, and he doesn’t listen to advice from those around him. He embodies the immaturity, irresponsibility, and ignorance of a child, but seems to lack the curiosity that usually comes along with it.

What’s the damage of having a president who asks like a child? Beside the fact that, as Noonan puts it, “the whole world is watching, a world that contains predators,” predators that are surely seeing the weakness in the White House and thinking about how they can use it to their advantage.

Turn on the news at any given time or open a newspaper, and there’s sure to be at least one story about the turbulent White House and toddler of a president. Yes, these stories make people angry and show the world the raw chaos of the American political climate, but they’re also setting an example for our children—and not a good one, at that.

Just recently the president spoke at the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, a great opportunity for him to overcome past grudges and display a positive role model for thousands of boys learning how to be men in the modern world.

But instead the president decided to continue to harp on his same old chords, complaining about former president Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton, the news media, and the “swamp” of Washington, D.C. In fact, the president’s remarks were so out of line that the Boy Scouts of American released an apology to parents and scouts present at the jamboree.

Here we see the perfect opportunity for the president to act as a mature, respectable, intelligent role model for just some of the children of this country, and what do we see? A president who doesn’t know his audience, and can’t get past an election that took place over 200 days ago. A president that uses time that could be spent encouraging boys to pursue their dreams, respect others, and make the world a better place to instead talk about how terrible everyone in Washington is to him, and how nobody appreciates him. A president who can’t get over himself long enough to talk to children and teenagers in a positive way.

News stories have already been written about children bullying other children in school using the president’s words, especially white children bullying minorities. According to a report in The Hill, an eighth grader insulted a black classmate by saying, “Now that Trump won, you're going to have to go back to Africa, where you belong.”

A professor in developmental psychology at the University of California, Janna Juvonen wrote an article about how Trump fits the bill perfectly when it comes to understanding what makes a bully tick: he mocks others, distances himself from blame, makes it out to seem like he is being attacked, denies involvement in negative scenarios, and makes up his own facts to inflate his self-worth.

Yes, Trump is Woody Allen without the humor, as Noonan writes. He is whiny, cowardly, weak, and a bully. If it was said of George H. W. Bush that he reminded everyone of their first husband then Trump must remind every parent of their two-year-old child when they’re lying about eating the last cookie and really just need a nap. Maybe Trump needs a nap.

Trump is not the second most “presidential” president, as he claims to be, he is a child that never grew up. He needs to be called out for his behavior and character, if for no other reason than to show our children that being a bully is not an acceptable way to make your way through life.