How do you know someone.

How do you get to know a person? You have to spend time with them, from there you can make your determination on the kind of person in front of you. I have had three instances in my life where I made a determination on a person’s character first hand. I spent 23 years in the restaurant business and met a lot of people, a few who I found out first hand, the outside perception did not equal my own first hand experience.

The first instance the general manager I worked for turned out to be the total opposite of the outside opinion. All he wanted was those that worked for him was to work hard and do your job. In he second instance, shocker, he was nothing as portrayed. I was told by this man to take an impromptu couple of days of vacation just after he moved to the store. I was able to surprise my girlfriend in Las Vegas. Guy number three, threw me under the bus big time and almost got me fired. Karma came back and bit him in the ass.

When Donald Trump announced his quest to be President people started coming out of the wood work to denounce him. He is a racist. He is misogynist. Ben Carson is black and is in his cabinet. Kelly Anne Conway was the first woman to win a Presidential Election as campaign manager. On the flip side good things he has done also surfaced. The kid he flew across the country in his plane because no airline would, because the boy need a medical procedure. The couple he helped in a broken down car along the highway.

Here is my take. We aren’t going to get close enough to Donald Trump to get to know him personally. We will have to take information where we can get it, do research. I don’t make my decisions from the news as a whole. I look beyond the news, both sides give their “view” not the news. I follow President Trump on all the major platforms. In the two plus years as President I can’t find a single thing that leads me to think he is racist and hates women, Rosie O’Donnell aside. I am still looking and get my wife’s input on all of the good, bad and indifferent information that comes down the pike. So in closing folks go beyond the news and do some research. We need to make our own opinions not “follow” the opinions. Until next time.