President Trump, What legacy will you leave?

President Trump

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington DC, 20500

23 October 2017

 Dear President Trump, 

How do you imagine history will remember you?  Your policies so far have done little, though they have attempted to cut funding for the agencies that protect our clear water and air, cut health care from those Americans who need it most, cut taxes to those who have the most to give (and need the tax cuts the least), and have failed to offer aid and refuge to those fleeing war and oppression.

 Your off-the-cuff comments have offended women, athletes, members of your own party, the media, veterans, American citizens in Puerto Rico, the disabled, and many countries that have been America’s allies for decades.

All this noise (Twitter and otherwise) has increased the level of anger and misunderstanding between the left and the right, polarized important issues we should be working on, and gotten you in the headlines on a daily basis.  It has increased your infamy (though not your popularity which continues to drop according the Gallup approval polls)

But what about history?  Popularity comes and goes on a daily basis.  There are countless examples from Hollywood, the business world, sports, and politics that show how low once-famous people can dip.  Infamy is slower, but much the same.  History, however, takes the long view.  President Bush will be remembered for his response to 9-11.  President Obama will be remembered for his initiatives on Health Care and his restoration of America to a place of respect internationally (culminating in his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize.)

 What will you be remembered for, if anything?  A wall that never got built?  Deregulation that polluted our country so that later generations had to spend all their resources to clean it up?  Yet another tax cut to the rich? 

Consider the legacy you wish to leave when you are gone.   

Regards,

Bill Boerman-Cornell