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Fortune just released its list of the world's 50 greatest leaders. President Trump didn't make the cut.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/688043/fortune-just-released-list-worlds-50-greatest-leaders-president-trump-didnt-make-cut
On Thursday, Fortune released its fourth annual list of the world's 50 greatest leaders, and there's one name glaringly absent from the list. Theo Epstein, whose Chicago Cubs broke their 108-year curse in November, tops the ranks of the greatest global leaders in business, government, philanthropy, and the arts, followed by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Pope Francis, Melinda Gates, and Jeff Bezos, the Amazon chief and owner of The Washington Post. Not making the Top 50 is President Trump.
Trump's second national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, made the cut, coming in at No. 7 with this question: "What will happen if and when his adamantly independent thinking conflicts with his duty of loyalty to the president"? Also in the Top 50: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), one of Trump's top Republican critics (No. 9); German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Western hemisphere's anti-Trump (No. 10); Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio), one of Trump's last GOP primary rivals (No. 12); and a chorus of other people who famously don't see eye-to-eye with Trump, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (No. 31), comedian Samantha Bee (No. 19), and LeBron James (No. 11).
So how did the nominal leader of the free world not make the cut? "Remember as you scan our list that we evaluate each leader within his or her own field of endeavor," Fortune's Geoff Colvin says in his introduction. He began his introduction with the glaring visibility of "tarnished leaders" today, mentioning ousted Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Trump himself, whose "approval ratings are lower than those of any new president for whom such polling exists."
Colvin also listed the three characteristics that great leaders must promote, including that they "acknowledge reality and offer hope," and "build bridges." "As the acerbity of political discourse threatens to infect the whole culture," he writes, "the best leaders stay refreshingly open to other views, engaging opponents constructively rather than waging war." Well, there's always the new Forbes Billionaires List, where Trump at least made the Top 554. Peter Weber
fierywoman
(8,004 posts)leftstreet
(36,198 posts)Everybody needs to tweet this to Trump
blue neen
(12,395 posts)Not just this year. Any year throughout time immortal.
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,924 posts)It was the 50 greatest leaders NOT NAMED TRUMP. See, it wouldn't be fair if he was in the competition. He would be at least numbers 1-10 all by himself. Anyone who says otherwise is just a liar or a hater or can't get over the last election or has been reading fake news. That's how the world works in Trumplandia. Actually, how fitting is it that a dead guy (John McCain) made the list and Trump didn't?
yonder
(9,898 posts)Demovictory9
(33,204 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,412 posts)Fortune.
GusBob
(7,450 posts)That article is 2 years old
Demovictory9
(33,204 posts)GusBob
(7,450 posts)I wouldnt have said anything if not for that
Blecht
(3,805 posts)Blindly posting Twitter shit that people dig up from years past -- just stop.
Sneederbunk
(14,879 posts)lpbk2713
(43,099 posts)That miserable scumbag is not worthy of that title.
Blue Owl
(53,791 posts)n/t
Skittles
(157,038 posts)anyone who seeks to divide instead of unite is NOT A LEADER
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Just wanted to tell you that MANY people are saying that Donald Trump is the GREATEST LEADER EVER. They tell me that all the time. Did you know that he won the Presidency with the largest margin in the history of the world. Many people also say that some of those people on that list - well, they've never been fans of most of them.
BigmanPigman
(52,129 posts)any time soon. Of course he could alter it as he has done in the past.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,312 posts)I'm sure it was one of those mags he worshipped and dreamed about being featured in
SeattleVet
(5,559 posts)Fortune spanks tRump!
Princess Turandot
(4,814 posts)Trump still isn't included.
Article: https://fortune.com/longform/the-worlds-50-greatest-leaders-2019/
List:
https://fortune.com/worlds-greatest-leaders/2019/search/