So, upon reflection, the gift I would give Trump would be an emotional gift, the gift of fraternity.
A Gift for Donald Trump -
If you could give Donald Trump the gift of a single trait to help his presidency, what would it be?
My first thought was that prudence was the most important gift one could give him.
He could begin each day looking for friends, and he would actually get a lot more done
It’s not clear if Trump is combative because he sees the world as dangerous or
if he sees the world as dangerous because it justifies his combativeness.
I’d give him the gift of some crisis he absolutely could not handle on his own.
It is the utter conviction that we are engaged in an apocalyptic war against radical Islamic terrorism,
even though there are probably several foreign policy problems of greater importance.
The only way to survive would be to fall back entirely on others, and then to experience what it feels like to have them hold him up.
Out of that, I hope, would come an ability to depend on others, to trust other people, to receive grace, and eventually a desire for companionship.
A prudent Trump wouldn’t spend his afternoons barking at foreign leaders and risking nuclear war.