Dan Cirucci: The Curious Case Of The FORMER President

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

The Curious Case Of The FORMER President

Barack Obama is PRESIDENT Obama.

George W, Bush is PRESIDENT Bush.

Bill Clinton is PRESIDENT Clinton.

Jimmy Carter is PRESIDENT Carter.

But as far as the media and the self-appointed intelligentsia are concerned Donald J. Trump is simply “the FORMER president.” For the most part he isn’t even “former President Trump." No, it’s simply (and almost always) the former president.

Hey, for all the trouble he got into (and as hated as he was by many) Richard Nixon was always President Nixon. And let’s not forget that Bill Clinton was impeached (the first elected president ever to be impeached) yet he was still accorded the presidential moniker.

People of my parent’s generation positively hated Herbert Hoover, blaming him for the Great Depression. But till the end of his exceptionally long life he was always President Hoover. President Johnson? He was hardly a hero to my generation — the generation that bore the brunt of the Vietnam War — but he was President Johnson. Harry Truman? He left office with one of the lowest approval ratings of any president up to that time but he was President Truman. The same could be said for President George H. W. Bush. And, of course, the title also remained with the martyred President Kennedy, the military hero President Eisenhower and even the unelected President Ford.

But this is not the case with the former president, often referred to as the controversial former president, the disgraced former president, the polarizing former president and now, the indicted former president.

Okay. He may be all of those things. But he was, and he remains, the 45th President of the United States duly elected by the people of the United States. Toqueville, a great political philosopher and student of American democracy, called the President of the United States "the tribune of the people" because the president is the only official elected to represent the people of every state. As such, the distinction and the title remain with the person elected to the office.

So it’s now time for everyone, out of a sense of simple decency and common respect, to call the 45th President of the United States PRESIDENT TRUMP.

That’s what we do here —always. That’s what we’ll continue to do and what you should do as well!

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About Dan Cirucci

He's been cited by the late Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed across all media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, a Save Jersey blog columnist, frequent guest on the Matt Rooney radio show and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post, Broad and Liberty and other print and online platforms.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include all things Italian, politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

He and his wife Carole have two grown children and seven grandchildren.

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