As a job, an athlete or a sports figure, isn't exactly comparable to President of the United States...
I believe Trump wants to succede for himself and the nation.
Maybe, but nothing he's done thus far is indicative of that all. If you think differently, you're just turning a blind eye at this point.
The issue with popular vote deciding elections is that it will ultimately come down to population dense areas, along with fractional vote percentages.
The EC has problems just the same; but if people want to replace it, it needs to be with something viable.
The environmental factors are almost entirely out of your control, at least as long as you're a youth (being born into a poor family v. being born into a wealthy family, and all the conditions that change from one to the other), so it's quite a stretch to argue that it's a choice because of them.