Hoping For Trump To Change

I HAVE NOT LOST ALL HOPE in Donald Trump. He could still win me over. First, he would have to announce his decision to stop supporting the effort to repeal Obamacare, and instead, support making changes to the ACA to make it work better. Either that, or the president could announce his determination to repeal and replace Obamacare with a European style single payer health care insurance system. You never know, that could happen any day now. The president is unpredictable, and ideologically flexible; whatever's good for his businesses, he's down with it, good to go. Then, he could reverse his position regarding climate change, and the participation of the United States in the Paris climate change accord. Trump could then stand next to EPA director Pruitt, and announce plans for a project, spearheaded by the EPA, to plant one trillion new tress worldwide, within five years. Such a dramatic proposal would doubtless get us all in the mood for taking personal action, right in our own backyards. A high ranking Danish political figure recently engaged Trump in a conversation, in which the Dane said he explained to the American president how a green economy translated into economic growth, and, rumor has it, Trump listened. That's a good sign. Another important step for Trump to get into my good graces would be for him to come clean about his connection with Russian election interference operatives, to spill the beans, to wax transparent, to get it off his chest, all the crime, the corruption. He would feel so very much better afterwards. No, I won't be holding my breath. But I still have hope, vanishingly small though it may be.