John R. Culleton, Jr. is retired from employment but active as a newspaper columnist (Carroll County Times, Carroll Eagle.) He also typesets and indexes books, mostly for self-publishers. His paid employment included work with the Social Security Administration, Maryland Department of General Services, Baltimore City Department of Social Services and manufacturing firms Link Group, Penberthy, GTCO, His degree in English is from the University of San Francisco. He spent three years in the Army during in the Korean War era.
Trump has sealed his own fate by his multiple misdeeds and broken promises. He can’t run against Hillary Clinton because she won’t be on the ballot. In all likelihood his opponent will be Joe Biden but any of the top five Democrats can beat him.
Our current president has declared himself the greatest holder of that office in history. There is a sermon in the New testament that warns against such self-glorification. More recently the poem “Ozymandias” by Shelley makes the point.