To the Editor:

Re “The Week When President Trump Resigned” (column, Aug. 20):

Kudos to Frank Bruni for his laser-sharp take on Donald Trump’s unpresidential sojourn at the White House. Unfortunately, Mr. Trump can still wreak a lot of damage through executive orders and appointments (especially judicial ones).

And yet if he does step down before there is a change in the makeup of Congress, the next in line, Vice President Mike Pence, is likely to promote, with greater success, the agenda of his right-wing allies on the Hill. Much rests with the 2018 elections.

HOWARD MILLER, DOBBS FERRY, N.Y.

To the Editor:

Donald Trump never cared, even a little, about governing, not from the moment he came down that gold-gilded escalator and landed, incredibly, in our laps. His was, is and will forever be a journey with only one passenger. No room for compassion, morality or any other virtue. No ruminating about a nation’s ills and how to heal them. Nothing but an ego trip across America gone wild.

We should not have been more deeply shocked and dismayed by the newest exhibition of depravity. Be honest. This is a broken record. Look back at the insults, the tone deafness that attaches to this man like white on rice.