“If someone asks you how to write your name, would you bark out each letter? And if they get angry, would you then return the anger? Wouldn’t you rather gently spell out each letter for them? So then, remember in life that your duties are the sum of individual acts. Pay attention to each of these as you do your day…just methodically complete your task.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.26

Step back, breathe,and control your emotions. Pick the battles that are important not small skirmishes that do not effect your ultimate goal. The trump knows how to use smoke screens and misdirection.

“Clear your mind and get a hold on yourself and, as when awakened from sleep and realizing it was only a bad dream upsetting you, wake up and see that what’s there is like those dreams.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.31

Should I “give him a chance” instead of thinking in the future what havoc he will bring on the USA. How about I think of the negative and be prepared for anything.For me that works better.

“For to be wise is only one thing-to fix our attention on our intelligence, which guides all things everywhere.” Heraclitus, Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 9.1

How about the trump voters try using their intelligence instead of emotions. Would that make them see exactly what he is? Maybe they are just lacking the intelligence thing.

“Whenever you get an impression of some pleasure, as with any impression, guard yourself from being carried away by it, let it await your action, give yourself a pause. After that, bring to mind both times, first when you have enjoyed the pleasure and later when  you will regret it and hate yourself. , Then compare to those the joy and satisfaction you’d feel for abstaining altogether, However, if a seemingly appropriate time arises to act on it, don’t be overcome by its comfort, pleasantness, and allure-but against all of this, how much better the consciousness of conquering it”Epictetus, Enchiridion,34

I wonder if the trump has much self control. Does he stop and weigh his actions before acting? “Grab them by the pussy” may be one instance where he used self control. Right.

“Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?” Epictetus, Discourses, 4.3.6b-8

Don’t be afraid to make a big change. Resist the trump.

“Our soul is sometimes a king, and sometimes a tyrant. A king, by attending to what is honorable, protects the good health of the body in its care, and gives it no base or sordid command. But an uncontrolled, desire fueled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king into the most feared and detested thing-a tyrant.” Seneca, Moral Letters, 114.24

Wow is this spot on for the trump. Now he is into nuclear proliferation to let the world know he has the biggest hammer and wants to make it bigger. WTF! Is everybody just roll’in with this. This clown is more a threat then the terrorists.

“There is no more stupefying thing than anger, nothing more bent on its own strength. If successful, none more arrogant, if foiled, none more insane-since it’s not driven back  by weariness even in defeat,when fortune removes its adversary it turns its teeth on itself.” Seneca, On Anger, 3.1.5

Angry Tweets-the trump. Maybe I should tweet this to him?

“We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind-for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.52

I have no opinion on the trump being elected.     Nope I will need a lot of work  to practice this one, maybe I should start smaller.

“Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate” Seneca, Oedipus, 992

The trump with twitter rants and attacks on anyone who criticizes him is our Nero.

“You cry, I’m suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way?” Seneca, Moral Letters, 78.17

Seneca seems to have met the trump.