Farewell to Trump

Dear Mr Trump,

It is still fresh in my memory. Our Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi organised "Namaste Trump" a great reception program for you when you came to India in February of last year. I witnessed the program from beginning to end. And I relished your speech word by word. The mega event's illustrative purpose was to highlight your intimacy with India. You wanted to impress 4.4 million Indian Americans well before the U.S. Presidential Election.

In 2016, I was stuck to the television to keep me updated with the latest election advances, indeed not for you. I knew nothing about you before the election. I had a soft corner for Hillary- wife of Bill Clinton. I still remember how curious I was to apprise me with her reaction when Lewinsky revealed her affair with her husband.

You remained in the limelight during the election because of your controversial persona. People thought you couldn't stand before Hillary Clinton, a seasoned politician. But you won the mandate and left everyone spellbound.

When I was a young boy, Carter led superpower America. The United States Presidents from the period of Jimmy Carter, I consciously remember.

America executes Military actions in Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and Afghanistan. And forces other developing nations to sign the Nuclear Non- proliferation Treaty for the World Peace. Both Democrats and Republicans have to respect the American hypocrisy.

Since the Obama period, I get interested in US Presidents as a persona. The intimacy of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi with both Obama and you pumped my curiosity. And I was eager to know more about you two Presidents.

Modi seems to be closer to you than Obama. Both of you practice the same political ideology of nationalism and the democracy of religious/racial majority.

You are pragmatic. You know how to take care of value voters. In 2016, close to 81% of white evangelicals cast their votes for you, and it was more than George W Bush got. And you paid off their faithfulness.

Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh appointed to the Supreme Court,

Transgender Military bans and Muslim bans,

Defunding Planned Parenthood,

And creating a division of religious freedom,

You fulfilled your promises and proved your accountability like a trustworthy politician.

You are the first billionaire President of the United States with a total worth of $3.10 billion as of Feb. 10, 2020. Supposedly you may not be as hungry for money as other politicians.

None can deny. Your business-oriented mind helped you control the stock market as it stacked up well against most of your presidential predecessors.

U.S. stock market was up 54% on a price basis and 64% on a total return basis by the most commonly used measure S&P500. Since you got elected, that is more than double the 23% average market return according to Bespoke Investment Group data.

Major Stock Averages were all-time high last year despite instability in the wake of the U.S.- China Trade War. The S&P 500 crossed 3,200 for the first time hitting its seventh round-number milestone of 2019. However, business investment fell off owing to the unpredictability of trade war. Yet public market investors remained confident enough to put money into stocks.

Your market got a raise from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the Central Bank, which lowered interest rates. A decline in the unemployment rate to 3.5% had helped the market.

But destiny didn't seem to favour you. The outbreak of Coronavirus turned the scene upside down. The way you dealt with the situation was shamelessly disgraceful and foolishly irresponsible. Otherwise, I had good reasons that you could get the second term.

You indeed avoided new foreign military interventions. And you were right to your claim to scale back what was left of the operations you took over from your counterparts. You executed your plan to withdraw/cut American troops from Afghanistan and Syria. You conveyed a message to your people you were delivering both peace and prosperity.

You scrutinised American ties with other nations in the light of your nationalistic and transactional aspects. You found many of them becoming a reason for draining the nation's treasury.

So, you wanted to stop funding the security of nations that are not paying their fair share. Your preference seemed to focus on America's economy the same way every other country does.

American workers got a long-awaited increase in hourly wages by 3.4% during your administration. The unemployment rate for workers without a high school diploma fell to 5.3% a record low.

I understand that a politician is a breed of hypocrites and soft-spoken opportunists. You spoke whatever you thought. Your unpolished and uncensored outpourings reflect your inner self. You are loyal to your heart. Many a time, your speeches were filthy, childish, and utterly irresponsible. But you never bothered to camouflage you to speak something otherwise that wasn't within your heart. I am sure that a politician like you is rare to find.

The unfateful incident of George Floyd occurred during your tenure, cannot be a testimony of all-white opinion. The accused white police officer in Minneapolis was a devil in the garb of a man. Fanatics are psychologically sick people. There had been some incidents involving suppression of black brethren under the Obama regime as well. Good and evil souls are in every race. Even in those countries where people of colour are in the majority, you can find a White victim. But it doesn't mean it to all people of colour support.

Mr Floyd was killed in the same metro area as Philando Castile. He uttered the same final pleas as Eric Garner in 2014 when a white police officer placed him in a chokehold that he could not breathe before he died. In Ohio, Tamir Rice, a twelve-year boy, was playing with a toy gun before a white police officer killed him. These terrible killing of black men and boys took place within four months of each other back in 2014 is no exception.

It is a cycle of American state brutality that has repeated itself year upon year, generation upon generation.

In 2015 it would be Tony Robinson, then Eric Harris, then Walter Scott, then Freddie Gray, then William Chapman, then Samuel DuBose. Maybe those names have become less loud in the current history of Great America. Such oblivious nature of the people is the cause of the crisis.

Your irresponsible, stupid attitude to deal with Coronavirus epidemic and killing of George Floyd in police custody by a White police officer a few months before the election became hot issues to trap you. There was not enough time for the public to forget the problems as it generally happens in other situations.

Your opponents in politics and media campaigned aggressively on these issues. They brought you on the back foot in the electoral battle. From time to time, your childish pranks boosted their designs to throw you down.

Had you dealt with COVID-19 responsibly and effectively, had a white police officer not killed a Black American close to the election, you would have been re-elected for the second term.

After the defeat, your instigating speech out of senseless resentment enraged your armed, violent protesters to intrude into Capitol Hill on January 6, leaving four persons dead. Such an act has put you to the level of a disgraceful vagabond. Alas! You have assassinated your "self."

It seems to be the decree of destiny favouring America that a person like you didn't get a second chance. I pray for you and everyone in America and the whole world love, peace, happiness, and prosperity.