My 11 and 14 year-old boys were depressed earlier and their dad wasn’t much better. I texted them this:

He has been elected to assume the title of president. We have had good ones and bad ones. We respect the office of the presidency but we do not have to respect the man or woman that holds it as a human being.

Our greatest moral leaders and thinkers….Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Alexander Hamilton, Susan B. Anthony, Jackie Robinson, and so many others were never presidents. We have occasionally had great moral leaders as presidents but it’s rare. Lincoln. FDR. Obama. We have been fortunate to have one as our president for 8 years.

Leadership is about who you are as a PERSON, not the title you have next to your name. President Obama will always be a true moral leader. Trump will fade into history and no one will be erecting statues of him to honor him or having national holidays to celebrate him as a person. No one will march in an elementary school parade in 30 years with him as their hero.

That’s what really matters. Remember that today.