Trump is playing us all

President Donald Trump is merely a skillful, manipulative gaslighter and con artist who intentionally appeals to our worst inner qualities because he believes that this is who and what 51 percent of us are — angry, lonely, fearful, bitter, resentful, spiteful, selfish, self-absorbed, cold-hearted haters, some of whom fear projections that one day over 50 percent of the nation will be non-white.

Trump plays all of us for fools and suckers; he does not believe most of the stupid things that he cleverly spoons out to us.

It’s all an act. Some of us have fallen for his act. He must laugh at us every day — supporters and critics.

Stewart Epstein,

Rochester, N.Y.