President Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C. 20500
10 February 2017
Dear President Trump,
An article in the Washington Post two days ago (Feb 8)
summarizes your phone conversations with foreign heads of state. It speaks of some successful calls, including
one to China which has set a good tone for your relationship with them, but
also describes several calls that were rude or contentious (Australia, France,
Mexico, Pakistan, and others).
In your discussions with foreign countries, particularly
those that are our allies (Australia, France, and Mexico, for example), can you
please treat them with the respect and dignity that they accord us? To do less than that is to endanger the progress
that statesmen from both US political parties have committed their lives
to.
In your discussions with foreign countries that we are not
on good terms with, can you please tread carefully? There is no sense in
antagonizing countries like North Korea or China. It may well be that North Korea, for example,
does not have a missile capable of reaching the US at this time as you
mentioned publically last week, but they can easily reach South Korea, a country
we have been allied with for some time. Taunting North Korea puts our friends
in South Korea at risk.
I am not a diplomat.
I am just a guy . But even I can see that the behavior you have shown
toward other nations is unreasonable. As
one of the most powerful countries in the world, we can afford to show some
gracefulness to the other countries.
Since you are our representative, it behooves you to show evidence of
that grace in the way you speak.
Please consider this.
Regards,
Bill Boerman-Cornell
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