What it takes to be president

Hint: It’s not experience, intelligence, or morals

Pax Ahimsa Gethen
Sep 6, 2018 · 6 min read
Protesters at the 2017 San Francisco Tax March hold a caricature of Donald Trump clutching fistfuls of money. All photos by Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

This week, I’ve been monitoring the fallout from the latest drama surrounding President Donald Trump; namely, the forthcoming book by renowned journalist Bob Woodward and yesterday’s op-ed in the New York Times by an anonymous senior official in the administration. Both accounts repeat what has been said since the beginning of…

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen

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Queer agender trans male. Black vegan atheist, photographer, blogger. Pronouns: they/them/their. http://funcrunch.org, https://www.patreon.com/funcrunch

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