To the Editor:

Commenting on another’s looks, as my sainted mother, Dorothy Clifford Collins, reminded her 12 children, is only acceptable if it is linked to an emergency for the other person. Like jaundiced eyes, blue lips, or a peculiar color of the visage. So, with her permission, I call your attention to Trump’s increasing molten hue. Is it a health concern that he has gone beyond makeup and bronzer and resorted to trowel and melted orange crayon, a kind of Oompa-Loompa with the white eyebrows but Jabba the Hutt eyes? Or is it his idea of a “refresh”?

Something is unusually amiss, even for Trump. Beyond physical issues, his hunger games for the Nobel Peace Prize include soliciting nominations (from Vietnam, Netanyahu, Pakistan, etc.), though some declined (Modi of India). Meanwhile, Trump is almost maniacally engaged in overtures of war in opposition to his campaign promises.
To change the news cycle and restore his equilibrium after the meeting with Putin in AK, Trump threatened American cities and blew up a Venezuelan boat without having any proof of contraband, and dispatching a nuclear sub and other military vessels to the Caribbean. For a suspicion. Why did Trump’s “Lord Voldemort”, Stephen Miller, ruminate about the “riches and resources” available In Venezuela? Why has Trump just renamed the DOD the “Department of War”?

On last week’s Truth Social, Trump posted a picture of himself as “Apocalypse Now” Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall), saying, “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.” “Chicoalypse Now” has Chicago in flames, captioned, …”Chicago is about to find out why we [now] call it [the DOD] the “Department of War!” Trump later denied he threatened war and whined that it was “fake news.” I found it on Fox.

Our US President is threatening blue American cities with federal military invasion because he rejects the politics of their democratically elected leaders, wants to invalidate states’ rights against federal military intervention, and is establishing military policing of civilians as a precedent. This is divisive and unconstitutional. This is not American. Trump appears to be encouraging civil war, a need for martial law, and a dissolution of our society, just as the rest of the world grows stronger against us. This is not meant to “fight crime,” but to subdue. And many of us are asleep.

So, Trump slaps on more warpaint to hide who he really is and what he intends, confident that his base will believe him for just a little while longer until he completes his plans., and distracts by attacking or threatening Americans cities, other countries, prosecuting his enemies, or tarting up the WH so it looks like a potentate’s palace.
Last Monday, the lewd cartoon in Epstein’s birthday book that Trump denied was his, but was “fake and nonexistent,” and a “Democratic hoax,” was released with his unmistakable scrawl, and refers to “wonderful secrets.” The WH operatives exclaimed that it was a “forgery” and “clearly NOT Trump’s signature.” That’s laughable. Typical Trump Victimization Syndrome.

Why is it that some Americans are comfortable that our president is a chronic, self-absorbed liar and amoral man, to the point that he has been held civilly liable for sex abuse and defamation?

Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore, Ca