Just Give Him Some Time...

Are you someone who said this when Donald Trump was elected President?  Well, a friend of mine just penned a letter to Mr. Trump.  He's given me permission to publish it here.  It's an excellent summary of what Trump has done during the time he's been given so far, and lays out the case for bringing that time to an end.

Dear Sir:
After having observed you for the past twenty months, I feel compelled to express my concerns about your “presidency.” They are:

• First and foremost: You are a liar. You exaggerate, misrepresent and fabricate facts not in evidence. I need not remind you of the countless occasions that you have lied. You know full well when and where you have done so. In short, you are morally corrupt, devoid of any integrity; thus, untrustworthy as the President and as a leader of the free world.

• Your inflated ego prevents you from seeing reality and heeding the counsel of political and economic experts who have the knowledge and expertise to advise you appropriately.  You have surrounded yourself with “advisors” who serve nothing more than to feed your ego, and who have forgotten that their allegiance is not to you, but to the citizens of this country. Your hubris knows no bounds. Remind yourself that you lost the popular vote by three million.

• You have alienated our long-standing allies and have instead cowed to some of the most violent oppressors of human rights. Your shameful adoration of Russian President Putin, for example, and your unwillingness to defend the country against Russian interference into our democratic practices borders on at least malfeasance and nonfeasance, not to mention the possibility of treason.

• Your ignorance of basic economic principles defies description, as is evidenced by your insistence on effecting barriers to international trade, i.e., tariffs, that have adversely impacted and which will continue to adversely affect American consumers, businesses and others, not to mention especially farmers, for example, who will experience shortfalls in prices for their soy beans. Additionally, you use the threats of tariffs to further alienate some of our closest friends, e.g., Canada. This is ill advised and does not serve well the interests of the nation.

• You dehumanize people of color, women, followers of different religions, and the disabled by calling them “dogs”, “rapists”, “terrorists” and “lowlifes”. You are a bigot. Your lack of compassion, and your vile comments about your detractors fail to meet the expectations of “presidential demeanor.”  You belittled Senator John Mc Cain’s captivity, for example, a man whose service to this country, courage, intelligence and integrity far exceeded any you could ever dream of.  

• Your clownish behavior as evidenced by your “portrayal” of  “proper presidential behavior” was just that:  Clownish and just plain childish.  You have courageously proclaimed you would like to hit someone “in the mouth” from a lofty stage. Is that the expected behavior of a President or of a bully? Your rhetoric has divided the nation, emboldened neo-Nazi and other hate groups, and implicitly condoned violence, such as what we have seen in Virginia and elsewhere.

• Your tweets reflect the emotional and intellectual immaturity of a petty, twelve-year old adolescent. I need not say anymore about his. You repeat yourself; your vocabulary is gravely limited, unbefitting of a President of the USA.  

• Your unfounded criticism of the media reflects just how thin-skinned you are, unable to listen to critiques of your administration and of your behavior.  You fail to understand, indeed accept, that a free press---including public radio and television--- is the foundation of a thriving democracy as well as a constitutional guarantee. Your shouts of “fake news” ring hollow.

• Contrary to your campaign promises to select only “the best people”, you have filled your cabinet with incompetent and unprepared persons---lickspittles---whose only interests are in advancing the fortunes of polluting industries, for-profit schools, Wall Street, the wealthiest members of society; perpetuating your lies to the press, and opposing environmental laws and regulations intended to safeguard the health and safety of American citizens. In this regard, your administration’s utter disregard for the environment, as well as your attempts to roll back environmental protection regulations and laws, is unconscionable. 

• You ignore scientific proofs for global warming and support pollution emitting and outdated industries and technologies…e.g., coal… rather than advocating for and investing in sustainable and renewable energy.  Your withdrawal from the Paris Agreement was a mistake, and further evidence of your utter disregard for the welfare of our country, its citizens and the earth.

• You have denigrated federal agencies such as the FBI and the Justice Department, including the Attorney General, and ridiculed the rule of law. You forget that the AG’s do not pledge to be loyal to you, but to protect and defend the Constitution of the US.  Stop, in the name of justice, interfering with the legal system, and attempting to sidetrack investigations into alleged crimes of your administration.  

• Finally, I view your immigration policy as one designed solely to discriminate against Mexicans, and citizens of Central America---people of color. Your administration has also launched a “witch hunt” against US citizens of Mexican descent, to deprive them of their US passports, which I also view as discriminatory.  And do not delude yourself into thinking that Mexico will pay for your “wall.” It won’t.  Your practice of separating children from their parents is cruel and inhumane. Neither that practice nor your wall address the root causes of the immigration crisis at our southern borders. And, please, stop saying that the Democrats want open, uncontrolled borders; they don’t.

To conclude, I beseech you, sir, for the good of the nation, please resign as the President. You would be serving the country far greater than you can ever imagine by doing so.  (End of letter.)

In the time he has had, President Trump has made all the worst tendencies of the Republican Party stand out. Can be convinced to resign?  Is a graceful exit possible?

NOTE: Yes, It's been a year since my last post.  Chalk it up to not being able to keep up with all of the damage done by the Trump Administration in that time.