Re “Amid warnings, Trump takes rosy view” (Page A1, March 25): Is President Trump forecasting his own fears by denying scientific knowledge of how best to survive this pandemic—through a rapid shutdown of the country—and instead predicting a more “beautiful” way would be for the country to open up and just be “raring to go by Easter”? In a virtual town hall on Fox News, Trump then proceeds to forecast that, should we not heed his warnings about “harming” our “flourishing economy,” we “are going to have suicides by the thousands. . . . You can’t just come in and say let’s close up the United States of America, the biggest, the most successful country in the world by far.”
Are we left to wonder whether Trump’s ever-ready slogan, Make America Great Again, is slipping away from him, and whether his fears of being dethroned by the pandemic, which is truly out of his control, feed his own panic?
We each must face our life-and-death situations, some easier than others. Yet it is together that we must unite to protect and provide for the whole.
Judith Kneen
Medford
Note from KBJ: President Trump will be re-elected, Judith. Write it down.
