While sitting in my history class, the professor managed to make it through a significant portion of the lesson without going off topic. Merely entertaining the small percentage of the class still paying attention, he mentions the epitome of controversial topics, Donald Trump.
After he mentions the candidate’s recent poor choice of words and uninformed opinion, the entire class perks up and listens to the debate at hand, my teacher shouting in utter shock that Trump does not know the leader of the KKK and how the country is in a “weird” state.
Throughout the rest of the class, my professor continued to bounce back and forth with topics. Jumping from the PowerPoint bullets to something regarding one of Trump’s ignorant statements.
I find that Trump makes it into almost every conversation, which will then turn into a political discussion, ending with “Bernie Sanders is better.”
In addition to Trump’s unwelcomed interruption in class, I notice that my peers can barely spend a full day without reading a tweet or post from this man. I sat in my dorm room with a friend for nearly three hours, solely talking about Trump and his idiocracy (When you google idiocracy, “idiocracy Trump” shows as the recommended search).
I am also guilty of this. I constantly find myself either critiquing his every move and speech, giving new insights to what could possibly fix the current situation, but in reality, I’m indirectly supporting his campaign by giving him even more air time.
In today’s society, it’s difficult to attend any social gathering without Donald Trump coming up in a conversation. While most of the comments are deliberate disagreements with the crude businessman, it’s possible that we, as a nation, are giving him too much attention.
With the race to the presidency underway, the United States has been “graced” with a person, such as Donald Trump, to be leading in the polls as well as all social media feeds.
Yes, he is the main joke on Tumblr blogs and Twitter comments, but the amount of public fame he gets is astounding. I also find it funny that many of the people who didn’t take his campaign seriously, at first, are becoming terrified.
I know of many people who said that “He’ll never become president” or “He’s just running for publicity.” This may be true, but we are coming to a pivotal point in this election and to see Trump’s face on the animated states on CNN, it's scary.
Although I disagree with his arguments and ideas that will supposedly “make America great again," I find that his name is mentioned nearly 10 times per day (five times in one particular class) too many.
I understand his role on the Internet as a joke (see picture below) but once he becomes an interruption and a driving point of conversation every day, it becomes serious.
This man may become president and no matter how much we retweet a picture his toupee flying off or a statement about his “small loan of $1 million,” it will never stop his rude, uninformed, sexist comments.
We as a nation need to remember that we have a right to voice our opinions and to dictate who runs the country; it's time to stop threatening to move to another country in 2016 and be proactive.
When Canada legitimately offers an entire island for American refugees if Trump were to get elected, it’s time to re-evaluate American values and vote.
