All of us should consider the blessings that our current president bestows upon us. For example, the blessing of “leadership.”

Presidents of the United States are many things, but above all they are called upon to demonstrate leadership. Webster’s Dictionary defines leadership as “the quality of character and personality giving a person the ability to gain the confidence of and lead others; as, Washington’s leadership was indispensable to the success of the American Revolution.”

We saw leadership when President Kennedy declared we would go to the moon, saying, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

President Bush showed leadership after 9/11, going to the pile to show his support and making the following statement:

“Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes, or in their offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers; moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror.

“The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed; our country is strong.

“A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

“America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.”

President Obama demonstrated leadership after yet another school shooting by actually singing “Amazing Grace” to express how deeply the country mourned.

Our current president has expressed his leadership by pushing through the “big beautiful bill” that, among other things, stripped needy people of medical coverage and food support while giving the richest among us enormous tax breaks, by sending ICE out to attack Americans who protested mass deportation without due process, by removing the leader of Venezuela, forcing that country to give up a significant amount of their oil, insist he had a right to take Greenland, Canada, and Cuba, and join Israel in attacking Iran, all without clear explanations as to why any of this should be done.

He also explained his right not to inform other countries of the Iran attack by telling a Japanese diplomat that they didn’t notify him when they bombed Pearl Harbor, shocking her into gasping.

And he shows his leadership repeatedly by posting on his own social media platform, expressing thoughts no leader ever has before. For example:

These actions provide We The People opportunities to consider the kind of leadership we want for our country. Which style represents us best? Which style of leadership do we feel proud to follow? Which form of leadership do we find ourselves embarrassed by?

The leaders we embrace define who we are. And yes, that changes a bit from president to president. Our current president provides us the opportunity to consider how we feel about our country and our leaders today, and what form of leadership we want to embrace going forward.

We should embrace that opportunity because the current form of leadership has certainly embraced us in the eyes of the world.