Donald Trump's integrity questioned

Apparently, Donald Trump thinks he doesn't need to interview for the job he wants. Put simply, Donald Trump thinks that debating is a waste of time. He's said that he's leading by such huge margins that he'd be foolish to debate. In Trump's mind, everything is about him. There's no narcissism in Trump's family. He got all of it.

The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board wrote this editorial to call out Mr. Trump. In their editorial, they wrote "Donald Trump has a big lead in the polls for the GOP presidential nomination, but he’s acting as if he has already won. After skipping the first GOP debate, he is also planning to blow off the second one, scheduled for next week at the Reagan Presidential Library in California. Instead Mr. Trump will give a speech to union workers in Detroit.

Trump has essentially said that people know him, that he doesn't need to debate the other top-tier candidates. That suggests that Mr. Trump is worried that he'll slip up with a display of narcissistic temperament or with some snotty remarks like he's famous for on Truth Social. This news segment is proof of Mr. Trump's highly-publicized thin skin:

What's been known for quite awhile is that Trump becomes more popular when he's quiet for long periods of time. That's because he isn't a nice man. That's because he isn't a man of integrity, with the exception of him having transactional integrity.
To state the obvious, Mr. Trump is running to be President and leader of the free world. Voters deserve to hear him defend his record and his platform.

Abortion. Mr. Trump said this weekend that Gov. Ron DeSantis made a "terrible mistake" by signing Florida’s six-week abortion ban. Yet Mr. Trump refuses to explain where in pregnancy he’d draw the line, saying vaguely that "we’ll come up with a number."

How? By spinning a giant wheel, like on a TV game show, except marked with "10 weeks," "15 weeks," and so forth? The public takes the abortion question seriously, and Mr. Trump owes a serious answer.

Covid-19. Whose pandemic policies worked? Mr. Trump has exchanged barbs with Mr. DeSantis, and a recent Trump advertisement intones that "Lockdown Ron" failed Florida. But Florida was one of the earliest states to reopen, and it became a mecca for many Americans fleeing the locked-down blue states.

"Even January of 2021, I was getting hit by the White House task force under Trump," Mr. DeSantis recalled recently. "Weeks before he left office, they were sending us missives to Florida, saying, 'Impose a mask mandate, and close bars and restaurants and businesses.'" Covid was a classic example of an unexpected crisis that Presidents have to face, and Mr. Trump’s record deserves a public vetting.

Mr. Trump loves criticizing his opponents (mostly Gov. DeSantis realistically) when he's the only voice talking. That's what a cheap shot artist does. Is he afraid that he'd get demolished if he criticized Gov. DeSantis about COVID on a debate stage when Gov. DeSantis can respond directly to Mr. Trump's cheap shots? If he isn't, he should be. Gov. DeSantis is much smarter than Trump plus he's got the truth on his side. Nothing stings Mr. Trump more than getting corrected. Mr. Trump loves spewing misinformation without fear of getting corrected.

Let's remember that Trump once said that NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo did a better job with COVID than Gov. DeSantis did:

Christina Pushaw, Team @RonDeSantis Rapid Response Director, responded this way: Trump isn't the great president that he claims to be. He's just a loudmouth without integrity. I'll take President Reagan anytime over this cheap shot artist.

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