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by ashley sullivan0 views·Updated May 8, 2023
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  1. Hello there.
  2. My name is Ashley Sullivan and I am doing
  3. my leadership analysis project on President Donald Trump.
  4. Before I get started,
  5. I want to make it clear that I felt like when going into the lap assignments
  6. that Donald Trump would be great for me as I felt like I would be able to give a
  7. biased analysis on him and his leadership as I
  8. don't belong to the Republican Party or Democratic Party.
  9. And I don't really have any feeling towards him whether negative or positive.
  10. So let's go ahead and get started.
  11. So the type of followers that Trump has in
  12. my opinion would fall under the Kelly typology.
  13. They are conformist, they're passive pragmatic.
  14. I would say that they're conformist as they tend to just kind of go
  15. off of anything that he says a lot of them also fall into a
  16. group called the Q Anons, which is a
  17. um
  18. very liberal excited
  19. conspiracy theorist group.
  20. And then I would say passive as a lot of them turn the other way when
  21. there have been some very scrutinizing things that
  22. have been said or that Donald Trump has possessed
  23. um
  24. Trump and his followers many of Trump's
  25. followers play unproductive or even harmful roles.
  26. Um While following him, Lippman Bloomin
  27. sought to find understanding
  28. in how or why someone might follow a bad leader.
  29. Her thesis is that unhealthy f followership occurs as a result of
  30. people's need to find safety so unique and be included in community.
  31. I feel like
  32. a lot of Trump's followers, obviously, he was a leader in our country.
  33. He, he quite literally led our nation.
  34. And so that put people in a position of needing him to protect them,
  35. especially with things that happened during his presidency,
  36. which we will get into later with COVID and things like that
  37. when trying to decide whether Donald Trump was ethical or unethical.
  38. Um My opinion, I went off of North House's opinion of what makes an ethical leader,
  39. um which would be honesty, care for other respectful of others,
  40. dignity and someone who behaves in their personal life as ethical or moral.
  41. And I would have to say personally that Donald Trump is not an ethical leader,
  42. in my opinion, going based off of that,
  43. some examples of unethical leadership that Trump
  44. displayed would be the inciting of insurrection,
  45. um vulgar things that he had said about women that had came out his boy mentality.
  46. And these are just a few examples.
  47. So what makes an ethical leader?
  48. Um To me, it's someone who is a role model. It's someone who is honest
  49. and puts the needs of others before his or herself.
  50. Um I think that in presidency especially
  51. that is a role that should be taken,
  52. taken very seriously where you put the lives of the Americans before yourself.
  53. And I feel like a lot of his tactics and the things that he said and
  54. um the things that he would post on his Twitter account, for example,
  55. were not for the betterment of our country
  56. or the betterment of the people in America,
  57. but they were to stroke his own ego.
  58. Um I went ahead and added the toxic triangle, um destructive leaders, charisma,
  59. personalized power, narcissism, negative life themed and uh
  60. IP ideology of hate.
  61. Next, we have susceptible followers, um conformers,
  62. unmet needs um low core self evaluations, low maturity,
  63. utter ambition, similar worldview and bad values. I mean,
  64. it
  65. is very clear
  66. with
  67. just the susceptible followers that were, I mean, it really does show
  68. um Trump supporters, not all of them obviously.
  69. Um But for the most part, and then we have um conducive environment, instability,
  70. perceived threat, cultural values,
  71. um lack of checks and balances and ineffective institutions.
  72. Once again, perceived threat.
  73. Um And instability is a great example of the presidency that we or
  74. I'm so I'm so sorry.
  75. Um not the presidency but the administration when Trump was in office.
  76. So now we get into Trump's response to COVID-19. Um Just a few examples.
  77. Once again, he downplayed Coronavirus as the typical flu.
  78. He blamed the Obama administration as to why
  79. things didn't things take such a turn so quickly
  80. and assured Americans not going back to work while infected was fine.
  81. Um And because of this, I mean,
  82. there was thousands of deaths that took place under his leadership.
  83. The issue with Trump's response to COVID.
  84. I feel like while leaders have an obligation to take threats seriously,
  85. leaders of the nation when it is
  86. a direct national threat is especially important.
  87. Unfortunately,
  88. I feel as though Donald Trump's response came from a place of narcissism and ego.
  89. The two cannot coincide with good leadership.
  90. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died and had he
  91. led the charge of taking it more seriously.
  92. Maybe many may still be alive.
  93. I feel like what happens in leadership obviously rolls down to
  94. those below.
  95. And so when the leader is not
  96. taking things seriously, is not taking charge and saying, ok,
  97. get vaccinated and all of these things
  98. naturally, neither will his followers
  99. overall.
  100. I think that it is clear that while Donald Trump may be business,
  101. savvy and rich and a self proclaimed family man,
  102. he is not the greatest leader and was not the greatest
  103. um leader for our nation.
  104. I truly tried to come into this very biased and open minded.
  105. But as I went through each of the questions, it was just staggering at how
  106. clear it was
  107. that he was not the the best leader