Walter Ludtke's Sept. 2 letter, "As a president, Donald Trump is doing well," said, "It is time to look past popularity and assess the president on his performance as measured against his campaign promises." I say it's time to look at the results of the few campaign promises he's managed to keep and judge him on those results.

His trade war has proven to be a disaster, and according to the Commerce Department, the U.S. trade deficit widened in June for the first time in four months as exports fell and imports grew. Our neighbors to the north in Washington stand to lose $480 million in agricultural exports to China and 2,500 cherry growers in Washington will lose some $86 million this season alone, all because of retaliatory tariffs by China.

While unemployment numbers are low, the majority of jobs created are in the service industry and are mostly low income jobs and "blue collar" jobs or jobs with less potential for responsibility and income, are now considered "new collar" jobs.

His tax plan gave massive tax breaks to the wealthy and big corporations and has turned a modest budget shortfall into an enormous budget shortfall. Now Republicans are threatening to make drastic cuts in Medicare and Social Security to make up for the deficit.

And finally, the arrests of refugee immigrants and the forced separation of children from their parents entering this country legally is simply cruel and inhumane.

Not only have his campaign promises proven to be disastrous, his legal woes and personal behavior as president and private citizen are just too much to stomach.

Terry K. Cunningham, Northwest Portland