It is no secret that the current President of the United States, Donald Trump, is controversial and inflammatory. Half of the country (mostly the people who voted for him in 2016) loves him and the other half truly despises him. I belong to the former category, but this does not mean I agree with his every action or choice or word.

Let’s start with Twitter, something I wish the President would just hurry up and delete. Twitter is a great platform to express your views and reach millions, if not billions, of people at the quick touch of a screen or the click of a button. However, President Trump is extremely impulsive and often employs Twitter to counter-punch his opponents and become wildly defensive. Some of the President’s worst moments have come on Twitter and, while his Tweets typically provoke a good laugh, he must remember exactly who he is. The President of the United States, the greatest country in the world. Being the President of this prosperous nation comes with being the Leader of the Free World. The person with this daunting weight on their shoulders should perhaps spend their time working with government officials and the citizens of the country to achieve the very best for the nation instead of Tweeting random messages at all hours of the morning. They also might want to reconsider labeling officials and leaders of the opposing party with sometimes offensive – and oftentimes rude – nicknames. No one will miraculously become a Trump supported when he repeatedly calls Hillary Clinton “Crooked Hillary” or Maxine Waters “Low IQ Maxine.”

The recent murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose death is detailed in a previously published article, has sparked global uproar and, yet, one man has stayed relatively silent and reserved in regard to the violent slaying. After being informed that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the killing of the Saudi journalist by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), President Trump remained loyal to Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince, who is reportedly a close ally of the White House, according to the New York Times. Both opponents and staunch supporters of the President expressed their outrage after his calculated response to the killing in his official statement. Mr. Trump argued that it would cost billions to retaliate against the Saudis, but most people are willing to accept those consequences after such a grisly and vile slaying of a man living in Virginia and writing in the Washington Post, and even claim the President was exaggerating. It would have been easy to punish Saudi Arabia with sanctions and, with the extensive support the nation receives from the United States, Trump could have almost effortlessly pushed the Crown Prince out of power. The world was completely underwhelmed and widely disappointed in the President’s response to such a horrific act, and there is little room to defend Trump’s decision.

Common sense is one important aspect that has been severely lacking and almost entirely absent from American politics in recent decades. It came crashing back into the political arena when Donald Trump announced he was running for President back in 2015. Little did people know that the reality TV star in his large tower would bring about a political revolution and extinguish much of the political correctness that had been developed over the past decades. They definitely did not anticipate that he would become the next President, and quite frankly, neither did I. Over two years later, however, I understand why Donald Trump is our president, and Hillary Clinton is not. President Trump truly embodies the actual feelings and opinions and views of a multitude of people across the country. He is new, refreshing, honest. He truly wants the absolute best for this country, and he is on the path to achieving even more success than he already has, but common sense is what got him elected. He realized – or, more likely, he finally said what millions of Americans had been thinking for years – that the United States simply cannot let every immigrant in or continue to hike up taxes for the rich or pay for everyone’s healthcare. This does not make him evil, it does not make him Hitler, and it does not make him a bad person – it makes him a practical man with a realistic worldview.

In the grand scheme of things, I would rather have someone who gets things done than someone who simply talks about getting things done like most politicians of this age. Donald Trump may be too confrontational and may need to consider changing his sometimes harsh approach when interacting with others, but, at the end of the day, I prefer common sense over political correctness, and change over political stagnation.

My father has continuously impressed upon me that “actions speak louder than words” and the same theory applies to President Donald Trump. His words might not be very eloquent, and he may be quite rough around the edges, but his actions are benefiting the United States, and that is what ultimately matters.