Question

Choose two public figures whose character and personality appear to be in conflict. Explain what you perceive to be their character and personality and how that perception is in conflict.

Must be 100 words long

Answer 1

• Barack Obama is relatively introverted, at least for a politician, and almost preternaturally low on neuroticism,emotionally calm and dispassionate, perhaps to a fault.Across his lifetime, Donald Trump has exhibited a trait profile that no one would expect of a U.S. president: sky-high extroversion combined with off-the-chart low agreeableness.
• Trump plays his role in an outgoing, exuberant, and socially dominant manner. He is a dynamo,driven, restless, unable to keep still.
• Trump unapologetically views the world through a performance hierarchy. In the real world, you either get the job done or you don’t which is in complete contrast to Obama's views.
• Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” is clearly positioned against Obama as a weak leader who is, in his mind, always making concessions and apologizing for America rather than boldly advancing our exceptionalism.
• The Obama family was and is the model of a modern happy family, while Trump’s sexist comments on women as well as his public behaviors cast doubts on the relationship between the President and his wife.
• Obama is a natural leader with vision and integrity who worked his way up from humble beginnings to become the President of America and did so free from the stench of corruption or scandal and with a history of serving his country.
• Trump is the privileged son of a millionaire who has had everything handed to him on a plate and managed to become President despite having the wrong temperament, a background full of scandal and controversy and no tangible policy platform.
• Obama supports social welfare programs and Trump appears to be favoring a reduction in social benefit programs .
• Obama wanted a modest laisse faire attitude with business, Trump wants to greatly reduce corporate and capital gain taxes, as well as reduce government supervision and environmental laws.
• Obama re-opened globalism as a good thing for America. He won his campaign on a mix of well-researched and developed logos, heavily charismatic pathos, and a public service career for ethos.
  
• Trump won his campaign on dubious logos, fear-driven and angry pathos, and private sector ethos. His campaign won out due to an anti-intellectual pathos and violently-distrustful ethos of Hillary Clinton.