The Washington Times ^ | 2017-01-18 | Matt Mackowiak
President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office Friday and become our 45th president.
All Americans should be praying for him, whether they supported him or not. After all, we are Americans first. He will need the prayers, as Mr. Trump is inheriting a larger and more complex set of urgent challenges than any president in my lifetime.
It is true that he is not inheriting a deep recession as President Obama did, but even an incomplete list of pressing matters sitting on the president-elect’s desk is honestly overwhelming.
It is true that he is not inheriting a deep recession as President Obama did, but even an incomplete list of pressing matters sitting on the president-elect’s desk is honestly overwhelming.
Consider: There’s the Syrian humanitarian crisis and civil war; Russian aggression in Eastern Europe and intervention in the U.S. electoral process; North Korean nuclear weapons programs; Iran violating the nuclear deal on a monthly basis; the weakest economic recovery in 70 years, with over 90 million Americans out of work or out of the workforce entirely; a national debt that has nearly doubled under Mr. Obama; the failing Obamacare health care reform; and a southern border that is objectively not secure.
Add to that the fact that Mr. Trump, while comfortably winning the presidency with 306 electoral votes and capturing 30 states, garnered just 46 percent of the popular vote in a four-way race.
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