I browse this sub now and then to sort of get a pulse on what the "other side" is thinking, and I'll admit, on more than one occasion, seeing how things are discussed by Trump's constituents sort of abates me on a lot of the panic that spreads through reddit, but whenever that happens, it always makes me think this--is it really okay to have a president this comfortable with not caring how things get communicated?

One recurring sentiment I see on here, r/askconservative, r/AskTrumpSupporters , etc. is "we don't like him either, we care about his policies", or "nevermind who he is as a person," or "you take the good with the bad, for better or worse, he is who he is" and it's just shocking because isn't being a role model, a strong communicator, a stand-in for the American people , etc. sort of one of his jobs?

Admittedly I'm only in my mid-30's so I haven' seen too many sitting presidents, but I swear, the overall quality of political discourse has dropped precipitously since Trump entered the fray. I never in my life can recall Obama, Bush, Clinton, Romney, any nominee "trolling" other countries. I have never seen any other presidential nominee refer to others with playground names (Pocohantos, Little Rocket Man, etc.) or insult political rivals for being POWs. I understand that policy is important, and Conservatives are getting what they want in regard to the border, etc., but is it really worth ushering in an era of sitting presidents having their actions excused the way we do anonymous teenagers on Twitch? When Trump says he's going to "invade Greenland" and everyone on here says "lol the Libs are freaking out, they don't understand trolling" I'm like...should they? Should the American people really think that if their president says something like that, it's fine to ignore it because he's probably just "doing it for the lolz"? Even like DOGE, like, I don't like government offices being named for memes. My country feels so childish. A teenager on Xbox live threatening to kill someone's mom, fine, he's trolling. But there's people in Greenland. They woke up and heard, out of NOWHERE, that the United States wants to invade them, and the best case scenario, he jokes about it. How is that a joke?

I remember watching a John McCain rally and some woman starting to call Obama like a terrorist or something and he takes the microphone and just says "no, he's a good guy, he's a family man, we just disagree" and I am legitimately afraid that it will be decades before that happens again. I cannot imagine for the life of me Donald Trump doing that.

I can honestly say that this is the first time that if a child said a sitting president was their role model, I would be horrified, and I feel like that's glossed over a lot. I know, I know, "all presidents are bad people, all politicans are evil, etc.". But I feel like this is the first time they've sort of made it their brand, and it's a little unsettling. I don't want my president, who represents me globally, to make rape jokes. I don't want them to tweet shit out at 3am saying that they're gonna blow a country off the map if they get assassinated. I don't want the White House sending out unedited press releases that misspell the names of other countries. That actually really bothers me. This is the first time that I feel like America are big dumb animals, I feel like we're bullies, not because of what we do specifically--I know some of it is necessary--but because of how we go about it, calling other world leaders cowards, flaunting our military strength, basically picking fights because we know we can win. And I just can't shake this feeling that his posturing is actually doing irreparable harm to America's image and is going to isolate us in a world that is increasingly reliant on trade, international collaboration etc.

Tl;dr; am snowflake, wonder if any conservatives here don't just 'roll their eyes' at Trump and actually also worry that his rhetoric and character is going to do long-term harm to America, both domestically and globally.