It's easy to attack and criticise. Much harder to provide positive advice. SQR would like to declare a brief truce with President Trump and offer some positive advice to the embattled leader of the free world.

Let's start by asking a simple question.

Does anyone know who the real Donald Trump is?

Donald Trump the man that is, not the reality TV star or public performer.

Trump’s wives must know him and the same must be true of his family members, children and close associates. His children genuinely respect and look up to him. They’ve worked alongside him, been raised by him and must have seen his good and bad. The love and respect Trump’s children have for him is a tremendous testament. You can pick up a newspaper or trawl through any successful social media news site and read about fathers and sons and daughters who are suffering from tremendously difficult dysfunctional relationships.

Trump set up strong trust funds for his children, sent them to top universities, gave them great jobs and strong career opportunities and mentored them by working closely with them. He has been a source of constant guidance, support, generosity and love and a consistent model of a calm reassuring patriarch. By any standards he has been an exemplary father and role model for all his children and is beyond criticism on this issue. Bravo.

After watching Trump on the campaign trail and his first few months in office it’s clear that Donald Trump, the man, also responds aggressively to any slight or insult, can’t tolerate any notion that anyone bosses him, is incapable of allowing anyone to take credit for any of his successes, regards Fox News as his bible, draws the majority of his information from television, is extremely loyal to people who are loyal to him and serve him well, stays up late by himself stewing over minor stuff, enjoys publicly venting his disapproval and is much more disciplined and happy when members of his family are around.   

SQR has the feeling that if Trump ever hopes to drive his poll numbers up, he needs to reconfigure the self-image of the president he believes himself to be and marry his business skills to his strong family instincts. 

President Trump might benefit from learning to think of himself as a father to the young, unemployed people of America, many of whom come from broken homes and disadvantaged communities, and commit himself to working for the youth with the same vigour, clarity and strong moral values he has shown to his own children. If he did this he’d be on sure, confident ground and be well on his way to becoming an outstanding leader.