Letter to the Editor: Trump’s Goals

It seems the Libertarians, ruled by the Koch brothers, want to eliminate all government; the evangelicals what to bring on the end times/Armageddon, leading to the Rapture and thus their salvation (and to hell with the rest of us non-believers); too many SCOTUS Justices want to destroy democracy as we once knew it and Members of Congress (MOC)  are all too willing to enable anything in their desperation to maintain control, regardless of the harm it does to the country. Some people, including the president, apparently think some or all of these things are a good idea.

Since Donald Trump is desperate to please his (dwindling?) base of supporters, his cabinet appointments are resigning in disgrace or being fired (but not directly by him), and his White House staff and aides are quitting in droves, I have a few suggestions for him to achieve his goals (whatever they really are) and to make his base happy:

1. Replace outgoing UN Ambassador Nikki Haley with Laura Ingraham, whose tact and diplomatic rhetoric are stellar.

2. Appoint Sean Hannity as White House Chief of Staff because he has so many good ideas about how to make things function well.

3. Make Rush Limbaugh the National Security Director, for the obvious reasons.

4. Put Alex Jones of InfoWars in charge of the Dept. of Defense, thus accelerating Armageddon; his deputy could be Jared Kushner, who has plenty of time to spare.

5. Replace the U.S. Supreme Court with members of the Freedom Caucus (but only the white males), to insure our/their freedom.

6. Re-appoint Alan Greenspan to the Federal Reserve, so he can finally privatize Social Security and bring back the subprime mortgage crisis.

7. Create a Cabinet position for Mike Huckabee – National Religious Leader comes to mind – so the U.S. will officially become a Christian theocracy.

8. Tell MOC to pass legislation tomorrow, which imposes a one-term limit only on Democrats and lifetime appointments to Trumpy Republicans, to guarantee their, and Trump’s, entrenchment in perpetuity. I’m sure the president would sign that!

If Mr. Trump takes the above-mentioned suggestions – and we all know how open he is to taking advice from others – I can almost guarantee he’ll accomplish what he seems to want: to be the King of the Chaos he’s created. But he can’t do that without help from his many enablers.

To paraphrase The Christmas Carol’s Tiny Tim, “God help us, every one!” Unless, of course, God has vacated the premises.

Kate Houston

Ephraim, Wis.