So we have a brand new president of the United States, and of course, everyone has their opinion about whether President Trump has been good or bad, will be good and bad.

Everyone has their opinion about Biden and Barack Obama and on and on.

And I'm just curious, what makes someone a good president? What makes someone a bad president?

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This is the James Altasier Show.

Obviously, we want our presidents to be moral and ethical, and we want them to be as transparent

as possible with the citizens.

Sometimes a president can't be totally transparent because some things are secret.

Let's say there's negotiations with other countries or economic policies that are going to be implemented that nobody should

know about in advance and so on. But we want in general our presidents to be transparent. We want

them to have some degree of courage without taking too many risks. And I'll explain what that

means in some of the example presidents from history. We also want the country to grow

economically, but that doesn't always happen because of one president. Like, for instance, the Great Depression

starred with Herbert Hoover, but it continued under Franklin Roosevelt. Was Hoover guilty of causing

the depression? Was Roosevelt guilty of continuing the

depression? I'll get to that in a second, but a lot of these things are a little unclear,

because it's a little unclear what the president actually does. First off, what does the

President of the United States actually do?

What is his job according to the Constitution?

And I'll tell you, it's not a lot.

Here are the official duties of the presidency.

Now, it's expanded a lot since the Constitution was made,

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