

When being a businessman didn't make you qualified to run a country in the same way that being a career politician doesn't make you qualified to run several Carrabba's Italian Grills, at least not without reading the franchise owner's manual first. When being even a junior senator with several terms under your belt meant intense scrutiny over your qualifications.

gets to be Leader of the Free World.įor a moment, I wistfully remembered when that used to be true of our world too. The Sims 3 could not even fathom a universe in which someone who's handed level 10 of the business track just. He'd have to complete 10 different levels of government before being elected. Per standard Sims protocol, Trump would have to serve as an intern and then work his way up. No league of wealthy Sims to see Donald's celebrity status and be like "sure, why not." No foreign governments looking for an opportunity to infiltrate the highest office of government. The road to the presidency is paved in, um, hard work?Īt this point, the game threw a wrench in my plans for Trump: there was no option to just apply to become Leader of the Free World.
