Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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I know it's not nice to gloat, but it occurred to me today as I was riding my bike that I'm not dreaming about the election of Donald Trump. He really did defeat Hillary Clinton. Hallelujah! Thank goodness! Godspeed, President-Elect Trump. May you undo the damage done to this great country by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and their ilk. Had Clinton been elected, the damage would have been irreversible.

To the editor:

While your article was certainly salient, does anyone notice that the poorest counties in the country are in solidly red states? (“By drawing 50 'states' according to income, study reveals 'developing countries' within the U.S.,” Nov. 17)

Trickle-down economics has been a disaster for these states, yet the people return Republicans to power there time and time again. The blue states inevitably shoulder the burden to prop these states up through taxes sent to the federal government where they then only marginally make their way to the red states due to conservative state governments’ shredding of the social safety net.

Democrats need to improve their messaging if they ever hope to regain majorities in government; otherwise the divide in quality of life between the states will only grow. One only need look at the economies of Kansas and Mississippi versus California and New York as two examples.

Mike Aguilar, Costa Mesa

Note from KBJ: Good try, Mike. People aren't poor because they vote Republican; they vote Republican because they're poor and want a better life. All Democrats have to offer is equally distributed misery.

So Mr. Trump won the election. And now there are reports that he might disregard traditions that go along with the office, saying that he might not want to live in Washington, D.C. or the White House.

Did he not realize that being president of the United States is not a 9-to-5 Monday through Friday job to which he can commute?

It’s a 24/7 responsibility for the next four years. He will be “on call” to do it and he had better be at the office, or living above it, so he can do the job.

He just found out he can’t delegate many duties to the vice president and that he is mandated by law to actually do some things, like work for a living.

Did he expect to have state dinners at the Trump Tower? Where does he plan to receive foreign heads of state?

His attitude is a disgrace to the 44 presidents who have gone before him, who have upheld the tradition and been proud to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

SUE ANN CAMPBELL,

CUTLER BAY

Note from KBJ: Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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Here's something that members of the mainstream media (including commentators) don't understand, probably because few if any of them have been successful executives: Donald Trump will appoint only exceptionally talented, energetic, intelligent, knowledgeable people to cabinet positions. A business executive who cannot identify talent (which I use as shorthand for all of the above) doesn't succeed, and Trump is a fabulously successful businessman. He will allow his appointees to run their agencies as they see fit and fire them if they fall short of his expectations. This is called "delegation" and "accountability."

I predict that Trump's cabinet will go down in history as one of the best of all time. It doesn't hurt that Trump's cabinet follows one of the most inept and politicized cabinets in American history. Remember Timothy Geithner, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Kathleen Sebelius, Sylvia Burwell, Janet Napolitano, Jeh Johnson, and Susan Rice? Remember Lois Lerner and John Koskinen? Oh, and lest we forget, there's windbag, plagiarist, and borderline retard Joe Biden.