Hillary is the majority vote winner. Yet ...
My Australian friend, I doubt you care - and I'm sure you are just talking to talk - but the reality is:
AGAIN, the USA does not elect Presidents by simple majority vote, we do so via the Electoral College. I don't think anyone cares what an Australian thinks of that (glad you hear you elect your Queen and PM by simple majority vote of all Australian voters), FACT is - never in the 240 year history of the USA has ANY significant effort been made to change how WE do this..... not by the Democrat Party, not by the Republican Party, not by ANY of the 50 States (large or small), not by Al Gore or any others who won the national vote but not the Electoral College vote.... and Hillary Clinton is not calling for such now. Again, as an Australian, you may or may not like this but since you aren't an American and this is not Australia, I'm not sure that's significant. If you want to become an American citizen and work to amend the US Constitution in the manner our Rule of Law requires - great (I'd be on your side) but that has nothing to do with the 2000 or 2016 elections. ALL candidates and ALL parties knew the rules going in.....
It is their respective competencies for the role of USA president that is pertinent.
IMO, as an American and a voter in US elections, I think they BOTH were too incompetent to serve, so I didn't vote for either. But we have a process. And one was chosen (or officially soon will be) and will be installed on January 20. It's the Rule of Law in our nation. Australia may do things differently, but that's a matter for Australians to like or not.
It may be that Donald will be sworn in only to be impeached as grossly incompetent soon after.
I doubt either would be impeached for being "incompetent." If that had been the case, probably most US Presidents would have been impeached. Nixon resigned before impreachment trials could begin - but the charges had already been prepared, he was going to be charged for a long list of specific deeds obstruction of justice and for lying about things he had done as president. Clinton was impeached (one of only two in the 240 years of the USA) for lying under oath to a grand jury. I doubt any president would be impreached for saying stupid or offensive things (likely all would have been impeached if that were the case). I think in practice it needs to be a very serious LAW issue pertaining to his exercise of the presidential office, a serious fellony done AS president. Although I admit, this is not well specified in the Constitution.
Our "check" is that he is elected to a 4 year term (unlike your Queen, for example). If he is not well regarded, he can be discontinued in 4 years. And of course, we have "checks and balances" - he can do NOTHING that requires money because the Congress controls all expenditures. He can't appoint any judges because that requires Senate approval. He can't make laws or change laws - that requires a majority vote of Congress. We have a Supreme Court that can rule actions void by being ruled unconstitutional. And while the Republicans hold a very slight majority of the Senate and a solid majority in the House, MANY of these are no fans of Trump! Remember, all living former Republican Presidents didn't support him.... all living former Republicans who can for President did not support him, even Paul Ryan sure did waver. He will have no easy time with the Republicans.... And remember - in the first term, US Presidents usually obsess over their popularity since they start running for re-election the day after their first term begins; Trump (I assure you!) has no desire to be a one-term President, that's the LAST THING he wants, he will do what he can to be popular and well set up for re-election.
I don't suspect you care, perhaps you as an Australian just want to have fun at the expense of Americans with things that aren't the case, and that's okay. There are Americans blowing off steam too. It happens every four years, just like clockwork. And usually, the nation survives. Sometimes that President doesn't get re-elected, usually (of late) they do.
- Josiah
