Mr Trump, are you okay?

Honestly, it is getting harder and harder to write civil, rational letters to a president who continues to act in an increasingly irrational fashion.  I apologize for any snarkiness that is intruding into this letter.  The fault is mine. 

Incidentally, this is our 25th letter to President Trump.  No responses yet.

 

 

 

President Trump

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington DC 20500

16 February 2017 

Dear President Trump, 

Are you okay? 

I ask because today’s press conference was frankly odd to watch.  You treated  the reporters with what seemed at times like rudeness.  When the one reporter asked what your administration intends to do about the rise of anti-sematic attacks, your response was to chew the reporter out for not asking you a simple enough question.  Sir, as President of the United States, you should perhaps expect complex questions.  And honestly, although the situation might argued to be complex, the question was pretty simple.   

So there are three possible explanations.  The first one is that you have never developed the social grace to respond to a question with a polite answer.  You might have said that your administration was still looking into the problem.  You might have said that you were concerned about the issue and intended to look into what could be done about it.  You might have said you were concerned.  You didn’t.  You accused the reporter of lying when he had initially agreed with you when you told him that he had a simple question.  This is not the way a president should act.  

The second explanation is that you really don’t care about the rise of anti-Semitism and are proud of that fact, so you enjoy messing with reporters. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is not the case. 

The third possibility is that there is something wrong.  You interpreted a question about your policy as an accusation that you were anti-sematic or racist.  You asserted, after you accused the reporter of lying, that you were not anti-Semitic and that you were not racist.  While there may be people accusing you of that, the reporter at the press conference was not doing so.  So perhaps you can see why I am concerned. 

So I ask again, are you okay?  Frankly I, and most of the rest of America, are worried.  Please write back and let me know.   

 Regards,

 Bill Boerman-Cornell