Last Friday, in a speech to the National Rifle Association, President Trump spoke about his victory in the Electoral College. He noted that he was the only candidate to give a speech to the NRA during the campaign. And, he warned his audience that in the 2020 election many Democratic candidates would be clamoring to speak to the NRA as well, possibly even Elizabeth Warren, whom he attempted to caricature as “Pocahontas.”
Also on Friday, in an interview with Reuters President Trump stated, regarding the Presidency, “This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.”
On April 23rd, in an interview with the Associated Press, President Trump was asked, “Is there anything from your business background that just doesn’t translate into the presidency, that just simply is not applicable to this job?”
To which he replied, “Well in business, you don’t necessarily need heart, whereas here, almost everything affects people…in business but you’re trying to just negotiate a good price…Here, everything, pretty much everything you do in government, involves heart, whereas in business, most things don’t involve heart…In fact, in business you’re actually better off without it [heart].”
No wonder President Trump finds the job of being President so hard. By his own admission, his years of business experience have literally trained him to exploit, objectify and dehumanize anyone who stood in his way of making a profit. But it is not true that business does not require heart. Business, like government, affects people. And any job that affects people requires heart. The reason that President Trump believes business does not require heart, is because he has taught himself to value profits more than people.
As a native man, I am appalled that, in a speech in 2017 to the National Rifle Association, President Trump ignorantly and childishly caricatured a female political opponent as Pocahontas’. Some have defended President Trump because his opponent, Elizabeth Warren, has been accused of misappropriating native identity. But even then, this sort of name-calling is not helpful. Not only is it beneath the office of the President, but it also minimizes the Native community as a rhetorical weapon in President Trump’s divisive administration. If he truly wants to defend natives, then perhaps he could respect our treaty rights and block the Dakota Access Pipeline. But he has already made his decision on that. Unfortunately, this sort of behavior is the price we pay for electing a businessman who blatantly celebrates his previous life, which taught him to conduct himself without regard for having heart.
In the same interview with Reuters, President Trump “reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House.” And he stated, “I loved my previous life. I had so many things going.”
I encourage President Trump to follow his longing and return to his previous life as a businessman. And sooner is probably better than later. Because an office that expects you to govern for the good of hundreds of millions of people, an office that has been stripped of the legal constraints of conflict of interest, and an office that gives you access to the unbelievable power of launching nuclear weapons, is not an office that someone without heart should occupy.
Mark Charles
(Navajo)
Wirelesshogan 
Unfortunately, this might be the sign of the times. Now, as during the election, he has used the ploy of Divide and Conquer. During his speech to the NRA, he posed Senator Warren as being anti-gun. In addition, he implied that she was Native American, hence Native People were also anti-NRA or anti-gun.