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How is Donald Trump a better qualified candidate for President of the US than Hillary Clinton?

Asked by Strauss (23835points) July 28th, 2016

Inspired by the current campaigns, as well as this question, that other question. This is intended as a discussion to contrast and compare.

Also, see companion question

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SmartAZ's avatar

That is like picking up a turd by the clean end.

ucme's avatar

Simple, he’s not a politician

kritiper's avatar

In comparison, Trump is like a fully loaded revolver in a game of Russian Roulette.

marinelife's avatar

He is not. There is no comparison. Hilary Clinton lays out 37 detailed positions on her website. Donald Trump has seven vague ideas, two of which are about building a wall.

Hilary Clinton supports the rights of all minorities including LGBT. Donald Trump denigrates women and minorities, including latinos and Muslims and other immigrants. He also badmouths women.

RocketGuy's avatar

He wants to make America white again.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

He is not a career politician

hornet's avatar

He’s better at marketing and manipulating the media.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Nope, and she is no better qualifies than he.

Pachy's avatar

I won’t get sucked into a debate about it but my understanding is that her reputation in other countries is far better and closer to the objective truth than it is in the U.S.

Abroad, she’s regarded as a smart, energetic, dedicated, experienced former first lady and secretary of state. Abroad, Donald Trump is regarded as a joke and a threat.

Hillary has her flaws. But for me, voting for her over her clueless opponent is a no-brainer.

filmfann's avatar

He isn’t.

SmartAZ's avatar

There’s just something about trusting a couple from Arkansas named Bill and Hilly.

rojo's avatar

Cannot think of a single way he would be better than Clinton.

OpryLeigh's avatar

For those who say that he is more qualified because he is not a politician, do you really think that this qualifies him to run one of the most powerful countries in the world. I know exactly what you are getting at when you say that this makes him better, politicians in general (meaning worldwide) lack the trust of the people by the way they conduct themselves but, with this is mind, from what I have seen over here in the UK, Trump is doing a fantastic job at acting like a politician without actually being one so whether he is actually a politician or not is irrelevant. The problem is he has all the traits we claim to hate in politicians without the actually experience of what it takes to run a country. That’s a dangerous combination!

rojo's avatar

You remember back in the late 80’s, early 90’s when we were told we should run our schools like businesses.

That worked out well didn’t it?

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