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Dear Mr. Trump

This is my second open letter to you which involves a totally different attitude.

By Otis ColonPublished 3 years ago 6 min read
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I feel embarrassed to write this letter as I praised you so much in the first open letter at the time when you were in the second year on your presidency. 

 
I have this feeling not because you lost in the 46 presidential campaign. Many people thought you would continue your second term as the U.S. President. And many of them took it for granted that you ought to be the president for the next four years. 


You have the obvious advantage when debating with Joe Biden—smart, savvy, logical, eloquent, etc. Also you got a large number of supporters when you delivered speechs in most states. 


But you did fail though you claimed the fraudulent votes in the campaign. Why?  


It isn't very hard to answer and maybe you don't know it clearly yourself. 


To be honest, it's kind of impossible that you would lose your second term for presidency. This is a same idea in many minds worldwide. 

 
You gave hope to lots of people—me included—when you won your presidential campaign four years ago (that is 2016) with an encouraging slogan "Make America Great Again." 


A successful business man doesn't mean an awesome politician.  


In the last four years of your presidency, as time went by, I even didn't follow you on twitter after I watched what you had been doing. That is to say I lost confidence in you as the U.S. President. 

 
A surprise? Let me explain. 


All things are two-edged, let alone being a President. You have big power, but you are also stepping on the ice. You are in people's daily topic whether they are your supporters or not, inside or outside the USA. 


Here, I list three deadly mistakes you made that mainly lead to your failure for the next four years presidency. 


The Border Wall

You proposed walls construction at the U.S.-Mexico border to curb illegal immigration, which is somewhat a highlight in your first presidential campaign. Yet actually, it's a big cost to build this wall. And you quickly saw it very hard to get funds for the wall and received strong criticism and disapproval. 


"We will let Mexico pay that wall," you said. But how did it work? Does it work? I cannot make sense that Mexico would do and upon what you said that so confident. 


As I wrote in my article An Invisible Immigration Wall Is More Important Than the Border Wall, you should better pay attention to something invisible that will cause serious outcome rather than a concrete wall. 


Then you were seemed cold-blooded in the children's eyes from many migration families in the U.S. who came for an American dream and yet haven't got the so-called legal status. Because you made them separated and their families broken. 


You once said in a public speech related to illegal immigration to ask a young woman from India to "go home." She was perplexed and cried because she came to the U.S. for a good life—maybe an ordinary life she dreamed of—and already looks on it as her home. Dramatically, she told this story in public after Joe Biden won the 46th election. 


The Trade War

You launched a war against unfair trade at the very beginning on your presidency. As a real estate magnate, you are smart enough to perceive the unbalance in the international trade. 


This a fact that some other experts or politicians are aware of besides you. And it's a fact that already lasts more than 15 years. The Presidents before you such as Clinton and Obama, I guess, knew it also. But they were cautious about it and didn't take any action on this for an overall consideration.  


When you said "our politicians are stupid" referring to this trade unbalance in your campaign, it just proved later that you were lack of a profound consideration and the knowledge of a particular society which you can learn in my book The Imperfect Scenery. Even the result of your trade war strategy is beyond your expectation.  


Although many of your supporters hoped that you should launch the trade war quickly and strictly, you seemed to have good patience to "play" with your opponent. Those unnecessary meetings, the scale of the tariff, the applicable trade goods, and the date for execution all went in an indefinite way. 


And you ordered American enterprises to move back to the USA thinking it's a good chance to improve the rate of employment at home. That sounds a good idea and the unemployment rate really hit at low points. 


On the other hand, you were very eager to keep a good relationship with that trade opponent in order to help American farmers export their farmland products to that country which has been in good situation for many years. And you were a little worried to destroy that relation and to be blamed. 


But actually, the trade strategy didn't work so well as the importation volume from that trade opponent was still on the rise in 2020.  


And the worst, we know what happened in 2020—the virus. Is it an accident? Why did it happen only during your presidency? People in some Asian countries eat bats, snakes, etc., for centuries. And as scientists conclude it's nearly impossible that man will be infected by some bats with coronavirus. 


A Real War

Your tough style made me think there would be a war during your presidency. Four years passed quickly and it didn't happen at all.  


On the contrary, you became the first U.S. President to visit North Korea. Isn't it ridiculous trying to make friends with a villain or a dictator? 


Still remember the war in Afghanistan after 9.11? And the war in Iraq starting in 2003? Then George Bush was the President. He is a courageous man who tells the world how great America is to seek justice and keep the world safe. The war is very worth it because it severely defeated the terrorism by killing the heads of terrorists and extremists. And the war freed Iraqi people ruled by a terrible dictator and helped them build a new country of democracy.  


We didn't see you had taken such a bold action. It's a little disappointing. Instead, you caused tension with mass media, even chaos—an insurrection at the Capitol—in the last moment as the President. All happened within the USA. Not only did you loss your presidency, but also your amazing Twitter account. 


So your attention and efforts went in the wrong direction. We need a peaceful and nice world to live in, which in fact, doesn't occur as we wish.  


The world runs between good and evil. Sometimes being tolerant just makes the bad grow and threaten. It's indeed necessary to carry out a war to annihilate them. And there should be no compromise! The pandemic is a lesson. Who's opened the Pandora's box of covid-19? 


Mr. Trump, your presidency is over. It's already in history, only leaving an unhappy remnant—the second impeachment trial. Many people around the world including your supporters and fans hope you to be re-elected after Joe Biden. I would say they are so lovable. I cannot foresee that future.

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About the Creator

Otis Colon

Please read my book (memoir) "Determined to Leave" at ko-fi.com/determinedtoleave

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