To the Editor:

This is from Donald Trump’s election-night victory speech: “I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all of Americans, and this is so important to me. For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country.”

I puzzle over the “all” in “all of Americans.” The definition of “all” is as follows: every, any, the whole of.

Trump’s “all” does not include anyone who disagrees with him. His “all” does not include transgenders who want to continue their honorable service in the military or who wish to enlist. His “all” does not include press members who reveal truths he refutes. His “all” does not include people who would lose health care coverage under plans he couldn’t explain, but will order, to satisfy his win-at-all-costs ego. His “all” discounts “SOB” athletes who put a knee down when the words, “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” are sung. His “all” pays little heed to Muslims. His “all” discounts Dreamers, who, while Americans, can’t vote and, therefore, hold little interest for him.

I guess the Electoral College’s choice for president has forgotten his election-night pledge. Now, I need to shovel “all” into yet another bucket of Trump lies.

Jan Bosman

Woodstock