#152) This Is The End

August 14, 2017

Dear Donald,

I have good news and bad news.  The good news is that I won't be writing to you on a daily basis anymore.  The bad news is the reason why I won't be writing to you; it's because I truly believe your actions as President have brought us to the point of a crisis of government and it's time for Republican legislators to step up and take a stand against you.  So that's who I will be writing to from now on, the members of Congress who have the power to remove you from office.

In a mere 205 days you have brought the greatest nation in the world to the point of being a global laughing stock.  My hope now is that you can be removed before something irreparable (or world changing) happens.  At this point you have just pissed a whole lot of people off and spent a truckload of money. But the world IS still spinning and the essential systems of government ARE still in place.  It no longer matters to me that a conservative, anti-choice judge is named to the Supreme Court or what bathrooms transgender students are allowed to use (although these are issues that I would have fought tirelessly for just a few months ago).  Given the irrationality of your time in office, I am just glad there still is a Supreme Court and there are still public schools. That's how much you have lowered the bar for me.

But a president who can't tell fact from fiction, who's emotional instability is on public display daily, who doesn't understand the rules and responsibilities of the office (and who shows no desire to learn about them), who can't speak in complete or coherent sentences, who puts his very fragile ego ahead of the needs of the people, who is not willing to publicly disavow Nazi supporters, who lies and deceives and is in personal debt to foreign nations simply can NOT be allowed to continue in office.  The joke is over Mr. Trump.  It's time for you to move on and for us to close this sad chapter of American history.

Just like the baseball sluggers Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds who live on in history books with an asterisk next to their names because of their infamy (achieved home run records but only through the illegal use of steroids) so too will you probably get an asterisk (and long side notes) about the exact process of your demise and departure.  Your infamy will live on in history books, Internet memes, and endless Youtube videos. But don't worry…it will all be good for the Trump brand and you will make even more money.   

Only once you are gone, however, will our country be able to get back to some level of normalcy and decency.  I look forward to that day.

Sincerely,

Amy Beaton