Elections have consequences.

Courtesy of Axios: 

From 2015 to 2017, Pew Research tracked global confidence in the U.S. president "to do the right thing" regarding world affairs. While almost all the countries surveyed have lost confidence over the years, Russia's significant increase stands out — jumping from 11% in 2011 under Obama to 53% under Trump. 

Other takeaways from the report: Merkel, Xi or Putin have more positive ratings globally than Trump. Arrogant was the most common word globally associated with Trump's characteristics. There is global disapproval across all of Trump's major policy proposals.

We have to keep reminding ourselves that this only took six months.

Though the data is from 2015 and 2017, I can guarantee that the numbers from 2016 would have lined up almost perfectly with the data from 2015.

That means that in only a six month period of time Donald Trump has completely trashed the reputation of the presidency of the United States.

I cannot even begin to imagine how much worse it will be in another six months.

New poll shows who America trusts. Spoiler alert: It ain't the politicians.

Americans' confidence in the military relatively high, and low for the press, elected officials & business leaders https://t.co/44FEtWPO2R pic.twitter.com/htnmuCfJ6V

— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) April 6, 2017

Interesting that the the only folks that Americans distrust as much, or more, than the media are business leaders and elected officials.

Now who is it that falls into both categories?

Wait, don't tell me I've almost got it. 

You can read the entire report here.

Powerful.

This is how I raised my daughter.

In my opinion it is how all girls should be raised, though I recognize that some may not agree.

Of course I am Daddy, and as the father my main concern was to keep her safe.

Keep her strong.

Empower her to stand up to adversity.

I did all of that.

However she is also smart, kind, and giving.

I think I may have helped with that as well. At least I hope so.

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