It’s true that your major does not have to match your career and all that hype, but when someone is cutting your hair or doing your taxes, you would hope they’ve at least gone to beauty school or taken Calc 2, respectively.
During his campaign, Trump went off the magic of the "f*ck the system" philosophy, or the Bernie Sanders effect. Everyone is so pissed at the government for their faults, that we always want The New Guy, the outsider. And Donald Trump was the ultimate outsider. So outside, that he quite possibly never took a political science class at all!
So, why do I think this?
At Wharton (UPenn's renowned business school), young Trump probably took amazing upper-level Economics and advanced business and leadership courses. All good things, but nowhere in the Wharton curriculum (or Fordham University which he attended prior to a junior-year transfer) is a political science course required.
These are the two big things The Prez has a lack of POLSCI101-level understanding of:
1. Separation of powers concept
From taking High School AP Government, I know that the president can’t “swamp” nothin' when it comes to the judicial system.
Why?
Well, judiciaries serve for life, and you can’t just kick them off when they disagree with something you said. Especially when their disagreement is calling Trump out for doing unconstitutional things. Again learned in AP Gov is the point of the checks and balances of the judicial system: to check that the executive branch is being constitutional.
Trump thinks the judiciary should stay out of his way, but in fact one of the reasons they exist is to control the executive branch's power. Trump is used to being the sole power of his company. Now that he works in a system, it’s confusing him and testing his ego.
2. Basic diplomacy
In AP Gov, we learned about the many "hats" a president wears. The president plays many roles, some being Chief Executive, Commander in Chief, Head of Foreign Policy, and Head of Political Party. One of his main roles is being Head of Sate, or the "face" of the US. The president is supposed to personify the values of our country.
President Trump is recking our rep' with other countries. In the tweet above, Trump uses the insults of a 5th grader to blatantly bully a world leader.
Other groups/people he has insulted, as cumulated by the LA Times:
-Mexicans
-Women
-Ted Cruz
-both Clintons
-The media
-People with disabilities
-The pope
-Iowans
Through his lack of knowledge (or blatant ignoring) of these two intro-to-politics topics, it's obvious Trump was never a PolSci major. Nor did he need to be. A lot of presidents boast of degrees in economics, sociology and even geology. The point is he is lacking the basics, and it is becoming problematic to our country.
So...
Let's see the transcripts, Mr. President.