Letter to the Editor: Submitted by Ann Klees

To the Editor:

Letter to the editor gurus tell us to choose one topic to expound on. Dictator/President Trump has released a herd of dik-diks, and I am not “lion”, I can’t pick just one.

Deporting innocent immigrants, removing rights from LBGTQ people, cutting Medicaid for vulnerable Americans, destroying our education system, cutting Headstart, and SNAP (food stamps),  cutting key employees from our critical services: Veterans services, Social Security and Medicare, Internal Revenue, health and safety, environmental protections, aid to starving, dying families in war-torn countries. 

Putting incompetent yes men in positions of national security, removing our top military minds, using loyalist FOX entertainment hosts as cabinet members  to make our country as idiotic as possible. Putting himself on boards he has no right to be on: Kennedy Center, for one. Fighting with colleges and universities over funding and critical research for the good of all people. When he cut off funds from USAID, he condemned 55 to 300 thousand people around the world with AIDS to death.

His tarrifs have created worldwide chaos. He threatens our friends and cozies up to Putin. He has abandoned Ukraine to Russia, wants to take over Canada, Greenland, and Panama and put a resort in Gaza. His family is profiting enormously from his office while the rest of us see no relief.

Where in all this destruction do you see any help for you? He is a vindictive, petty man who doesn’t believe he has to follow the Constitution he swore an oath to protect.

Ann Klees
Waterville