Why on earth is everyone on the media trying to examine, interpret and figure out Donald Trump’s off-the-cuff tweets and press statements? They keep searching for hidden motives and meanings in everything he says. Isn’t it just possible that Trump’s “mind” cannot be fathomed any more than the minds of psychotic masochists such as Ed Gein, Ted Bundy or David Berkowitz. Trump is a megalomaniac who has to be the number one mullah, the final answer, the unquestioned leader of everyone and everything. He deludes himself into thinking that all he needs do is make a declaration, give an opinion, or act on a hunch, click his heels together 3 times and repeat his mantra over and over and whatever he says will come to pass.

An Arizona couple in their 60’s decided, after hearing Trump’s praise and confirmation of the benefits of hydroxychloroquine as a cure all for coronavirus, to ingest some of it. Trouble was, they found something called chloroquine on the pantry shelf in a fish tank product. Now the husband is dead, the wife is hospitalized. Were these people avid, hypnotized Trump cultists, like the followers of JIm Jones? Or, were they innocent and naive enough to think that everything Trump the President says is the absolute truth meant to save them?

The grief, misery and loss of life our “leader” Donald J. Trump is capable of causing and has already brought about through his bumbling, prideful and delusional madness will echo through the years ahead — — tarnishing the past achievements of our democracy. Now he says that that the economy must take first priority rather than slowing the disease by continuing slower more effective means such as self-quarantine and keeping one’s distance.

Hydroxychloroquine is a drug I’ve taken for a couple of years for RA. My doctor says I’d be in a wheelchair if I did not accept it. The side effects frighten me — — I must go to the eye doctor every 6-9 months to be sure it is not affecting my vision. Monitoring the drug is essential, blindness can occur before the patient realizes that vision is being affected. SED rates in the blood must be checked and I must see my rheumatologist every two months! I hate drugs, as I’ve been given some in the past that have seriously hurt me rather than cured me. We need medical information given to us by medical experts, not by a President who is better suited for the role of reality show host. He has no knowledge of medicine. He refuses to allow those competent few of his staff who possess such knowledge to contradict him. Where is Dr. Fuci now?

I’m closer to 80 than 70. I was born into an era when it was a compliment to have social graces, speak without indulging in profanity and to try to argue intelligently instead of to radically criticize those who you considered were uninformed. However, in this new time of fear, uncertainty and falsehood, I have one message to give the leader of our country: SHUT THE FUCK UP ! ! !