I have resisted the temptation to write to you for years. I figured it wouldn’t do any good, but I have decided it would do me some good. So, this is for me and not for you.
Foolishly, I believe that most people want to do good. You can reason with them if you can calm most people down and get them out of their frenzy. Then again, when I was on my psychiatry rotation in medical school, I met this patient who thought that the Richardson (Richardson, TX is a suburb of Dallas) police were beaming ideas into his head. That was the first time it was clear that reason does not work with everyone. But that is your genius. You don’t let anyone calm down. You keep them in a state of frenzy. You promote one crisis after another.
So, how did you end up here, Donald? You are sitting in a cold courtroom with sketch artists drawing your melancholy face. Just three years ago, you were sitting in the White House as President of the United States. That’s a long drop. You are not on trial for having sex with a porn star. You aren’t even on trial for paying a porn star for sex. Instead, you tried to lie about those payments. You claimed that they were legal expenses. So, this is a campaign finance violation. You tried to hide these payments from the public because you thought it would hurt your election. This is the funniest and most ironic thing about this whole case. The folks who love you don’t care if you slept with a pornstar. They love the fact that you don’t play by the rules. So, you are on trial because you underestimated your followers. (Is it over or under-estimated?) Probably the worst part of this ordeal is that the facts in this case are not in doubt. According to these facts, someone, Michael Cohen, has already gone to jail. You are really between a rock and a hard place.
The GOP
Do you feel that your grip on the GOP is slipping? Not too long ago, it seemed that if you asked the GOP to jump, they would snap to attention and ask, “How high?” Now, someone you endorsed, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, decided to back funding for Ukraine. Ukraine. The country that defied you. The little no-nothing country that had the nerve to stand up and say no to Donald Trump. Johnson turned his back on you like there are no consequences to crossing the Don. What is going on? Have you lost your power?
Middle East
Don, I’m sorry, but I blame a lot of the chaos in Israel and Gaza on you. When you were president, you told Israel that they could do whatever they wanted. Israel is not acting like a country whose foundation is based on the Torah. Instead, they are running through Gaza like Thanos from the Avengers. They are killing men, women, and children. They are killing militants, civilians, and journalists. By some accounts, over 100 journalists have died covering this stupid, fruitless war.
Now, Israel and Iran are playing a perilous game of chicken. They are throwing weapons at each other to show political hardliners in their respective countries that they are tough. All we need is some miscalculation where 100’s (if not thousands) of civilians die, and then we have World War III on our hands. Again, this is your fault. Iran was complying with a nuclear treaty that was working. You tore up that treaty because…Why did you tear up that treaty? I remember because you thought Obama didn’t know what he was doing. When, in fact, it was you who was clueless.
There is unrest on college campuses. Sorry, Don, but these are students who are informed, and they are frustrated. Israel is wiping out Gaza using American weapons. They (the students) believe that’s wrong. They want the killing to stop. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the protestors an “antisemitic mob.” He is wrong. Most of the protestors want the violence to stop. They don’t hate Jews. They hate Israel bombing civilians. Don, this is the kind of nuance you don’t understand. Or at least you pretend that you don’t understand.
