There’s a lot of Trump fan mail in our Mailbag today. Did we miss something? A couple of years ago there were a lot of people saying, “You know who would make the best president ever? The guy who does that TV show where people get fired. The guy who builds gaudy hotels and whose mansion in Florida looks like it was decorated by Liberace’s more flamboyant brother. Yeah, that guy. That’s who I would vote for. Hope he runs.”

So, anyway, Trump wins, thanks to those people and Russia, and we get hollered at for making disparaging remarks about a failed steak salesman.

Here, help us open some of these letters, mostly in response to our column comparing Obama’s farewell address on Tuesday to Trump’s news conference on Wednesday.

“The difference between Obama and Trump is that Obama is a very polished, flamboyant, far-left liberal-progressive-socialist who, with his charming smile and convincing speech, has almost totally destroyed the American way of life,” writes Martha Morrissy-Call. “Trump is a businessman, not accomplished in the art of spewing rhetoric, but telling the truth in his, perhaps, crude way.”

We’ll stipulate to crude, though he’s still a bit shy of attaining that status. We have to pay closer attention; we missed a lot of those truths. Actually, we missed all of them.

Reader Rich Gallvy doesn’t seem to like our state, which is pretty weird, because it’s the best state ever, in the history of states. “The liberals in California need to move on,” he writes. “If you take California out of the equation, Trump most likely wins the popular vote.”

OK, and if you take Russia out of the equation, Clinton most likely wins the Electoral College. We admit it, ruefully: You guys won. Pozdravleniya, komrad!

Somewhat of a reader Larry Fuqua hates California even more as he fires all of his guns at once and explodes into space: “Since you are in California, that would probably explain your limited viewpoints,” he points out. “What exactly are your afraid of? I’m sure the Press-Telegram will continue to use your articles in their little hometown newspaper. It makes a nice little filler. Try writing about something that people actually care about. And, if you do decide to go away for the 20th, why don’t you extend your stay for the next four years? Maybe you could get some LGBT to write your columns. It is Long Beach, isn’t it?”

Jeepers! That’s a lot to unpack. We’ll just limit our response to one thing we’re afraid of: Trump handling the nuclear buttons like a carnival monkey playing an accordion. Is that good enough? Can we be afraid of that?

Among the more companionable letters we received, was this from our beloved 83-year-old reader Mary Morehead, of Bellflower, who sympathizes with us over our aversion to our mom’s stewed tomato and stale bread casserole, and Trump.

“Oh my God, I thought my mother was the only one in the world who made that monstrosity,” she writes. “And I sat through that press conference, too. I actually have members of my family who voted for that idiot. I thought I’d brought them up better.”

We all try our best, Mary, but we can only do so much.

Contact Tim Grobaty at 562-714-2116, tgrobaty@scng.com, @grobaty on Twitter