He agrees, vote like Trump is running

Has it occurred to anyone that what happened to journalist Jamal Khashoggi is exactly what President Trump wants to do to many journalists in our country? His sucking up to the world’s dictators, autocrats and theocrats and inventing excuses for their inexcusable actions smells of “power envy.”

To that end, he has filled his cabinet with boot-licking sycophants. He has begun to stack the judiciary with crocodilian liars in his own image. He endeavors to codify tax-dodging schemes for the very rich, the same schemes he practices on his own way to personal wealth.

He takes personal credit for any rise in the stock market, and balks like a toddler, blaming others for every downturn. Meanwhile, he ignores the real elephant, our national debt, now at $880 billion and climbing fast.

He glories in his ignorance of science, scoffing at overwhelming, professionally vetted evidence for worldwide climate change. His bellicose, jaw-dropping public utterances, far from making America great, have made it an international laughing stock.

Some might consider his ascension to the presidency a historical hiccup. In fact, it is one, long, stanching, spit-flecked, room-clearing belch.

So, on Nov. 6, take Trump’s advice pretend he’s on the ballot. Russ Ostlund Stonington