To the editor:<\/p>\n
By now, we have seen what Trump has done in his short second term. Either you are for him or against him based on what you have experienced. Despite any perceived or actual good he has done, a major problem remains with him, and it has been best described by the English moralist and literary critic, Samuel Johnson: <\/p>\n
\u201cThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is precisely who Trump is, his essence, and he admits it and it guides him. It must guide him because he does not have a moral compass. This is not complicated. He is grossly flawed in all attributes common to great men. <\/p>\n
Never forget what Trump is for one moment. <\/p>\n
1. He is an authoritarian.<\/p>\n
2. He is a convicted criminal. The charges stemmed from a scandal involving\u00a0\u201chush money\u201d payments\u00a0to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. He cheated on his wife with her. <\/p>\n
3. He is a person who has been\u00a0legally determined (by conviction or court ruling)\u00a0to have committed a sexual assault against E. Jean Carroll.<\/p>\n
4. He was the instigator of the precisely documented January 6th Insurrection. House January 6 Committee (2022 final report): The bipartisan committee concluded that Trump was\u00a0\u201cthe central cause of January 6\u201d\u00a0and that the attack \u201cwould not have happened without him.\u201d It detailed how he and his allies pressured state officials, the Department of Justice, and Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election, and then summoned supporters to Washington and encouraged them to march on the Capitol.<\/p>\n
5. He reacted coldly when Mike Pence\u2019s life was threatened. There is strong, multi-source evidence that Pence\u2019s life was in danger on January 6 and that Trump both pressured Pence beforehand and responded inadequately as the attack unfolded. <\/p>\n
6. He tried to overturn the 2020 election. He is a sore loser and a cheater.<\/p>\n
7. He cheated on his wives. <\/p>\n
8. Trump is\u00a0not formally or self-declared\u00a0a white Christian nationalist. His\u00a0messaging, coalition, and political strategy strongly overlap with white Christian nationalist ideology, and scholars widely agree that he has\u00a0mobilized\u00a0that movement, even if he doesn\u2019t theologically belong to it. <\/p>\n
9. He claims to be a Christian yet does not adhere to the fundamental tenets of Christianity.<\/p>\n
10. He does not believe in or abide by the Constitution.<\/p>\n
11. He has no coherent economic plan or any semblance of a Universal Health Care plan that he has shared with the voters. <\/p>\n
12. He wastes your time wondering if he\u2019s going to a mythical heaven.<\/p>\n
13. He whines about his loss of the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a champion whiner. <\/p>\n
14. He is increasingly delusional. He quickly forgets how many countries and leaders dislike him. <\/p>\n
15. He wastes taxpayer money on tacky White House upgrades.<\/p>\n
16. He claims to be a peacemaker while invading Democratic cities to fight the apparitions of his distorted imagination.<\/p>\n
17. He cannot be trusted. Trust erodes in him daily. <\/p>\n
18. Trump is like a prisoner trying to do good deeds for an early release. <\/p>\n
19. He is thoroughly inconsiderate and inconsistent. He\u2019s good at these. <\/p>\n
20. Across the ten most frequently cited national polling sources \u2014 including\u00a0Reuters\/Ipsos, YouGov\/Economist, Gallup, Quinnipiac, Morning Consult, Emerson, Fox News, ABC\/Washington Post, Pew, and RealClearPolitics aggregates- Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0current average approval rating\u00a0(as of mid-October 2025) is approximately:<\/p>\n
Approval:\u00a0\u2248 44%<\/p>\n
Disapproval:\u00a0\u2248 52%<\/p>\n
Paul Kiefner<\/p>\n
St. Augustine, <\/p>\n
formerly of Cape Coral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: By now, we have seen what Trump has done in his short second term. Either…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-18167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}