Trump Twitter-Additiction Tilts Toward Tiresome Tirades

December 4, 2016

Dear President-Elect Trump: 

Please cut the mind-numbing, stupid tweeting and focus on your promises. 

You are not the star of a television program any longer. You are the very embodiment of a nation. 

In other words, and with respect, stop acting like an idiot and start behaving like a person worthy of the responsibility you have been given. Unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud numbering in the millions is exactly the kind of illogical drivel we can do without. You want to make a claim like that? Then back it up with data or go through the legal process. Otherwise, shut it. 

Note to the Media: where the hell are you? WAKE UP!!! 

Are there no sober-minded advisors on your staff with the grit to help you eliminate your immature and self-defeating passion for reacting versus helping you respond intelligently? 

You won. Now grow up. Learn to temper your actions with wisdom. If you won't do it for yourself and your own children then do it for mine and their children to come. 

Seriously...please? 

Yours truly, 

An imperfect but conscious American.

Trump pulls China's Tail Again. To What End?

December 18, 2016

Dear President-Elect Trump: 

Your diplomatic sophistication has once again risen to the emotional height of a crack addict resisting arrest. I wake up again this morning to learn that you are shouting - yes shouting - that China should just keep an underwater drone they blatantly stole from an American military vessel. "Keep it!," you Tweet. I have a question for you? 

With great respect, are you stupid? 

Maybe let the adults handle this one, Pee Wee? 

This is not The Apprentice, Sir. Managing the paranoia of 1.4 Billion people requires a little more laconic finesse. I'd expect your kind of response from my crazy, chain smoking, bathrobe wearing, off the wagon neighbor whose newspaper I accidentally ran over with my car in our shared driveway. But from a person who would lead our nation? 

It occurs to this untrained observer that you may have an untreated mental health condition. Impulsive behavior at 72 years old is at least something to be a wee bit concerned about. We need tempered actIon and wisdom from you, not rabid distemper and judgement-clouded reaction. The world needs inspired leadership not the ravings of an insomniac narcissist with the impulse control of a teen drag racer at a street race full of Hooters Girls. 

Again, I ask, is there no sober adult supervision around to put some reasoned limits on your - at least questionable - lack of self control? 

I will give you one positive point. Your behavior is at the very least entertaining. Who doesn't love a fool?