An Open Letter to Donald Trump

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An Open Letter to Donald Trump:

Mister…Donald Trump,

Honestly, truly, at this point, what the…I’m…how…I honestly don’t know. Seriously, it only took eight days until you achieved majority disapproval rating from Gallup. It took President George H. W. Bush 1336 days until he achieved that. How do you, as a single person, manage that?

And then you’re signing these executive orders as if they’ll go into immediate effect – do you even know how checks and balances or the separation of powers work? Your CITIZENS are scared of you, your choices, and your cabinet. I personally fear for my life now. You make me ashamed of my country.

Let’s start off with a number of the executive orders that you’ve already signed,and what they promise to do:

You signed an order to begin the repeal of Affordable Care Act. That order, by the way, will kill people. Innocent people that can’t afford healthcare will DIE simply because they can’t pay for it. It’s not greed or a privilege. Healthcare is a basic human right. WHY? We are one of the only leading nations without free healthcare. Our people, YOUR people, are dying because of something so miniscule. You’re afraid to care for your people because you’re being a childish cheeto.

Your order to expedite environmental review for high priority infrastructure projects is going to ruin our already crappy environment. This is just to be able to build stupid things that you want, like the Dakota Access Pipeline, which was pushed by you for nearly no reason. How, exactly, is this going to help further our economy, while also preserving the culture of a dwindling Native American group?

The Executive Order (EO) on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement is so enraging. Your supporters are boycotting Starbucks for promising to hire 10,000 refugees and complaining on twitter about not hiring veterans or military families. May I remind those supporters that five years ago Starbuck promised to hire 10,000 veterans and have since hired 8,000? And, according to sophomore Nicolas Dominguez, “Is providing an opportunity for refugees who are already here such a deplorable thing?” But nonetheless, you’re trapping US citizens overseas because other nations are so infuriated with this EO that they have closed their borders to us. We can’t escape you now even if we tried.

Your completely racist EO on Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry targets only people of color from middle eastern countries such as Syria, Iran and Somalia. These aren’t terrorists, they’re Islamic. You cannot stereotype these people based on the actions of a few. Do you know have many mosques have burned down from your supporters since you were decided as the president-elect? Do you realize those are the true terrorists? In fact, out of the 182 terrorists between 2001 and 2015, 165 were white and a majority of that were US born citizens. So really, who is this EO going to protect? Us? Or them?

Also, you’re a fascist. Like literally. No joke. A total fascist. And your supporters who claim to be “alt-right,” yeah those are just Nazis. Come on, you’re not fooling anyone. There are 14 common characteristics in a fascist leader and you take the cake for nearly every single one of them. According to Dr. Lawrence Britt, you 100% qualify for 9 of the 14 characteristics, partially for 4 of them, and the last one we have yet to see, but no doubt it’s coming in the future. So, quick question, when are you planning for your fascist regime?

Yes, it’s currently February, the honored Black History Month. And it could be your Press Secretary thinks that Frederick Douglass is…still alive? He clearly stated in an interview that “[Trump] wants to highlight the contributions that [Douglass] has made. And I think through a lot of the actions and statements that he’s going to make.” Now, what did he actually mean by that? Because there’s plenty of people who are rightfully confused about the topic at hand.

It’s been two weeks as you have signed 18 executive orders and presidential memos already. Obama signed 19 and you were up in arms on July 10, 2012, about “constantly issuing executive orders that are major grabs of authority.” Obama’s EOs were mainly to protect people by disallowing torture and closing Guantanamo Bay. Yours are discriminatory and hateful to the people of the US. How hypocritical can you be?

If you want to actually think before you act, like a true president should, then you need to stop thinking like a businessman and start thinking about being a morally right president. You’ve done nothing good so far. I hope the next four years are not like that.

Sincerely,
Tim Kihneman, Copy Editor