PERSPECTIVE FROM THE 19^TH HOLE: This is the title I chose for my personal blog, which is meant to give me an outlet for one of my favorite crafts – writing – plus use an image from my favorite sport, golf. Out of college, my first job was as a reporter for the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon, and I went on from there to practice writing in all of my professional positions, including as a Congressional press secretary in Washington, D.C., an Oregon state government manager in Salem and Portland, press secretary for Oregon’s last Republican governor (Vic Atiyeh), and a private sector lobbyist. This blog also allows me to link another favorite pastime – politics and the art of developing public policy – to what I write.

It is incredible to hear and see all the negative words to describe “our” president, Donald Trump.

If you would have asked me about such words a few years ago, I would have said, “no, we don’t talk about our president that way, even if we don’t agree with him (or her). At least, respect the office, if not the person in it.”

But, now we have a buffoon, a blowhard and a former reality TV star in the Oval Office – that is, if he actually spends much time there. And he attempts to burnish his own image with deep and personal criticisms of anyone who happens to disagree with him because, of course, he considers himself to be the smartest person in any room.

Before writing this blog, I reflected on whether, in doing so, I was just continuing a debate marked by terrible words. If all of us are to behave in a more civil fashion, perhaps it should start with me.

But, in the end, I decided to go ahead if only because I will feel better for listing words that have been used to describe this worst of all U.S. presidents.

I suppose it would be possible for fans of Trump to laud a few achievements – getting Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, working with Congress to pass the most wide- ranging tax reform since the Reagan years, spurring economic growth, and rolling back portions of the huge regulatory burden left by former President Barack Obama.

But, he has almost continually sabotaged his own agenda by tweets that not long lacked decorum, but also impugned the integrity of those named in the tweets.

At any rate, with time on my hands in retirement, I made a list of words that have been used to describe Trump, over the last year – sometimes by me.

One of the best is BLOTUS. It is a take-off on the acronym POTUS, which stands for President of the United States. It was passed on to me yesterday by a friend who said the term described Trump to a “T.”

So, what does BLOTUS mean? It stands for “Biggest Liar of the United States.”

Other words to describe Trump:

Buffoon

Narcissist

Egotist

Shallow

Daft

“It’s all about me”

Ignorant

Arrogant

Liar

Blowhard

Idiot

Racist

Misogynist

Egomaniac

Bombastic

Clown

Obnoxious

Delusional

Unqualified

Repulsive

Pompous

Incompetent

Simpleton

The columnist who used the “simpleton” to describe Trump also said that, as Trump sustains attacks from political foes and the press he has been left “punch-drunk,” causing him to lash out again and again without “appropriate restraint.”

These are words that are not presidential. We deserve better. There is decorum to observe in the nation’s highest political office and Trump observes none of it.

Say what you will about Trump’s “achievements.” For me, they pale in comparison to his “it’s all about me” attitude.