Of Jobs, Trump, and Existing

JUST AS THE BIBLE is the most important book in the world, the most important and influential book ever widely circulated, Donald J.Trump, whether we like it or not, is either the most important person in the world, because of his power and influence, or he's in the top two or three. I'm an Aaron Judge fan, and I like the Pope, but neither of them, despite Judges's RBI total and status as the Yankee's "Captain" and best hitter in baseball in the tradition of Lou Gehrig and Thurman Munson, rise to the level of the Commander-in-Chief of the world's most powerful nation and military, commanding thirty to fourty thousand nuclear warheads. Or have we discarded some of them through treaty obligations? Suffice to say, a bunch of bombs.I'd sooner have Thurman Munson, even though he is deceased, or certainly the Pope, in charge of all the bombs. Trump might make a good bat boy for the Yankees, if he could shed a few pounds and stay awake long enough to follow the game, and know when to run out on the field and pick up the bat after every Yankee at bat. Not all of us are in the jobs for which we are best suited. I taught in the public schools for years, beacuse it was easier, far easier to get a job there than sending out two hundred ignored applications to colleges and universities. Trump was a horrible businessman, and is a dangerous, inept, corrupt hack politician, but he was a helluve television star. His show "The Apprentice" was so hot that it propelled him to the American presidency. There are many books which I prefer to the Bible, many polticians, all politicians, whom I prefer to Trump. It is worth remembering that heads of state have emerged from even stranger places than billionaire business status and impromptu television celebrity stardom. Abraham lincoln was a railsplitter, which kept him lean and in good shape. U.S. Grant tried anything and everything in private free enterprise before finding his true self in the military. His resume' reads like that of a drifter, and he probably couldn't get a job today. He couldn't pass the drug test, for alcohol, not that there are any. But by God, U,.S Grant was a winner, an implacable force in battle. So what if he was drunk all the time? Whatever he is drinking, Lincoln said, give a bottle of it to every officer in blue uniform. After graduate school, when I discovered that neither columbia nor the University of Mmissouri would have anything to do with me, I decided to swallow my pride, and teach in the public schhools, if they would have me. They would have me, but only as a substitute, until I proved myself. I spent years proving myself in a very high quality public school system in a college town where teaching jobs were in great demand but short supply. I languished as a fill in for so long that I started enjoying it. Shitty pay, but it was fun, since kids love subs, and subbing has the benefit of choice. When the call comes, you can either take it or leave it. You choose your days off. So, who's to say who the most important person in the world really is, or the most influential? Trump's professors at the Wharton School of econoomics, two of whom are still iving, swear that he was the dumbest son of a bitch they ever had in class. Their words, not mine. Grant made do, and got by. The Bible still sells in a world where books generally are neither sold nor read. And, giving credit where due, Trump, no more likely to succeed than Grant or the patchwork endlessly rewritten Christian Bible, managed to make it work, against all odds. In this universe,nothing is likely, including existence itself,and everything is a fluke. The good news is that the old cliche is true; anybody can become anything, even, sometimes, what they want to be.