A Letter to President Trump
By Princess Purple
Dear Mr. President,
First let me just say this, I didn't vote for you - I voted for the other guy. This being said, know that I respect the office that you are now holding.
I am tempted to bash you as I see and hear so many doing. The fact is, the office you hold prevents me from saying you are not my President.
You ran to be a representative of your political party. You then ran against the other party’s candidate. Both of these contests you won. Yes, some, like myself, are upset at the way things turned out. But the final outcome makes you my President.
The American electoral process did its job. It is a democratic process. The system has been our form of government for over 241 years, designed by our forefathers, and so far it has been a pretty good way to run a country. Every President before you had to go through the election process to become the head of the executive branch of the United States of America. Some presidents have been hated and some have been loved, but each had their chance to run the country and to try to please the American people. But, as one of your predecessors, Abraham Lincoln, so famously noted, you can't please all of the people all of the time.
Here is a brief organizational chart reminder in case you fell asleep in U.S. History class. The U.S. government is a three- part system: the executive branch, headed by the President; the legislative branch made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives (together they are called Congress); and the judicial branch - the Supreme Court. There are more details, but, hey, this is a social network, not a library.
Oh, speaking of libraries, they usually have a copy or two of the Constitution lying around. There’s probably a copy somewhere in your new house - the white one, not that gold apartment in New York. It’s a good read.
People are looking at you either to fail or to succeed in governing their country wisely during your term of office. It’s their country and they have put you in charge of part of it. Congress gets to make laws and to kick you out of office, if necessary. (You get to suggest laws and deny them - that “deny” part is called a veto.) The Supreme Court gets the final say of whether those laws are good or must be discarded. Your branch rubber stamps bills passed by Congress which then makes the bill a law, or you can veto the bill - but if Congress is really serious about a vetoed bill it can pass it again and do without your rubber stamp (well, technically it is signed with a pen so the President can hand it out afterward as a souvenir). Your branch also represents this country to the rest of the world both in diplomatic and military circles. Your image becomes our image. If you’re classy, we’re classy. If you’re a jerk, when we travel we introduce ourselves as Canadians.
Everything comes to an end, even presidential terms. How you act now influences how you will be remembered in history. Or, even, forgotten. The choice is yours.
Good luck over the next four years- the world is watching and so are all Americans.
American Citizen,
Princess Purple
P.S. You could learn to smile more.