Categories: Letters to the Editor, Opinion

My concerns about Donald Trump and his administration are so abundant I could not possibly enumerate them here. However, one strikingly over-arching issue has emerged in the past month that clearly characterizes him and his administration: lies.

I am neither a Republican nor a conservative, but Sen. John Mc-Cain is both, and last week he stated he was “alarmed by the growing inability and even unwillingness to separate truth from lies” by the Trump administration.

And Mark Cuban, a highly successful conservative businessman and self-described friend of Donald Trump, recently said that it is “a waste of time to try to turn Pinocchio into a real president.”

There are things called truths, which are supported by facts (actuality), and there are things called lies, which are unsupported fabrications (imaginary). There is no such thing as “alternative facts” (which the Trump administration alleges exist); those are lies.

When I was a child, I was taught not to tell lies by having my mouth washed out with soap. I think it’s time to gather lots of soap, go to Washington, and “clean house.”

PAUL DEIERLEIN

Schenectady