To our President

To our president, Donald J. Trump, I write you to say farewell. As our president I neither despised you nor loved you. As neither a democrat nor a republican, I feel I might be able to bring a perspective to this letter different than most. Maybe you won’t like what I have to say, maybe you will, I don’t know, but I need to say it.

When you took office in 2016 I was a supporter of the Trump train, as many others were. I was excited for the promises of expanded second amendment rights. I was excited because you claimed to be in favor of LGBT community. I was excited because at first I hoped that we didn’t elect a politician into office, but an American.

It was my first presidential election that I was old enough to vote in. My first ever vote for a president was for you. I was so proud to do my part as an American citizen, and proud for who I voted for. At first anyway. However, I finally learned that there is no such thing as a good politician. These last four years I have learned more about politics than I wish to know. I learned how the government is playing the American people.

Your first promises were for federal Second Amendment laws, to lower the national debt, and for the wall on the border of Mexico. None of which came to pass. Second Amendment rights were pushed aside just as they are with any other politician. Then you decided to ban bumpstocks, and that was adding a nail to the coffin of the Constitution. Most people didn’t care, because who uses bumpstocks anyways? However, that isn’t the point. The real point is that you decided that this was another step you wanted the government to take to total control over American citizens.

You preached, preached, preached about lowering national debt. You not only did not achieve that promise, you actually raised the national debt by trillions. At what point does the national debt become enough for any politician to care? Maybe if you would have succeeded at “draining the swamp”, we would have cut the national debt by getting rid of the freeloaders in congress.

I did not care much about the wall on Mexico’s border. I never figured you would get Mexico to pay for it. I cared more about real efforts to help or eliminate illegal immigrants. I’m not sure if you did anything about that, but I do know you weren’t to blame for the “children in cages.” Obama was good at getting that blamed on you, and citizens were good at turning a blind eye to the truth.

I have to say, for me personally, I was severely disappointed in how there was never a single finger from your hand lifted to help the LGBT Americans. You claimed to be for the American people, yet you forgot a huge portion of them. I wanted to understand why you decided to cut transgender people’s rights in the military. Claiming that it was because of the money it cost taxpayers almost bought me. However, considering that the military supplies Viagra, which in overall costs is ten times more than transgender medical costs, it was hard to defend your reasoning given that bit of ridiculous information. Let alone all the other unnecessary military spending that goes on.

President Donald J. Trump, you did do some good things. Such as making peace with North Korea. Making America respectable to other country’s leaders again. Lowering income tax, even if it only helped the upper classes. Trying to expose the impact of false news from the media outlets. You did more for minorities than Obama or any other democrat ever did. You took out isis, and stopped that reign of terrorism, which was something Obama didn’t lift a finger to do.

It’s easy for people to complain about what you didn’t do, or what you did “wrong”, but it isn’t easy for anyone to give you credit for things you did right. Maybe the things you did right weren’t enough to cancel out what you did wrong? I don’t know. Everyone in the United States of America has their own ideas on how things should be. Doing things wrong, or right, is subject to each individual’s beliefs.

If I had one thing I could ask you, it would be “what do you think you did wrong while in office?” It would be easy for you to tell me everything you feel you did correct. Would you be able to admit what you felt like you did wrong? Would you be able to admit you did anything wrong? Were there things you were unsure about? Were there things you wish you could go back and do differently? Were there things that kept you up at night, still keep you up at night wondering if you made the right decisions.

I did not vote for you this time around. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t vote for Biden. I voted for someone who follows my beliefs more closely. I wish more Americans would follow suit, and vote for someone they want in, not someone they think will win. I don’t want to live in an America where the masses vote ignorantly just to get someone out of office. We need to vote for who we believe in. We need to vote for people who think the same as we do, and will uphold what we stand for. Americans don’t do that anymore.

I want to tell you that my vote didn’t matter much since the rest of my county voted for you, but I would rather have you in office for another four years. I am fearful of what the next president has in his plans. I fear how the democrats plan to use Biden to control this country. I fear what rights will be stripped from us. I fear a lot of things and hope that we survive the next four years. I can only hope that America will wake up someday and vote for someone outside of the duopoly. Someone not republican or democrat. That will be the only way to save this country.

What do I know though? Since right and wrong is only a figment of our beliefs, my beliefs for what will make America truly “great again” is different from the next person who has written you a letter. Too bad it seems that no one realizes that the government decides for us, even if the United States were to be controlled by the people, for the people.

Goodbye Mr. President. The next four years bring a lot of questions and uncertainties. Nothing in the future is never certain though, as that is life. We will take this new term one day at a time, and hopefully things will change for the better with presidents to come. Only time will tell.