April 20, 2017
Dear Mr. President,
Sometimes it seems like you miss being on the campaign
trail. I can see why too because on the
campaign trail you get to give the same speech over and over again. You can talk about throwing Hilary Clinton in
jail (or building the wall, or radical Islamic terrorists, or repealing
Obamacare) in Wisconsin, and then 6 hours later in Kentucky, and then 8 hours
later in Florida. The repetition really
gives you time to get comfortable with the information. So even if you don't
know about the issues you can spew forth a lot of memorized facts (possibly not
true facts) without ever even thinking.
But now that you are actually the President of the United
States, it is time to start thinking.
Stop relying on your old stand-by come backs when someone calls you out, like "the protesters
are being paid" and "that's fake news" and my favorite,
"only the media care about that".
It's time to start reading the briefings and learning about what's
actually going on in the world and crafting some presidential-type of responses. Your improvisational approach to leadership
hasn't landed you in too much troubled yet…but
it will. So instead of just reframing
your key campaign themes (because that's what gets you the biggest applause and
makes you feel most comfortable) learn about something new and add a few new
words to your vocabulary. It will be
good for you.
On the campaign trail you had your stump speech about
Obamacare down pat. You could holler it
out loud and smooth like a barker at the circus because you repeated it a hundred times a day
in every city that you landed in. But when
faced with the reality of creating a new health care plan, this is what you had
to say:
"We
have to come up, and we can come up with many different plans.
In fact,
plans you don't even know about will be devised because we're
going to
come up with plans – health care plans – that will be so good."
This was your plan to "replace" Obamacare. And we
all know how that ended. Maybe get
yourself a tutor or something.
Sincerely,
Amy Beaton
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