Dear President Trump,

I know you are accustomed to defining reality as you think it should be.  Doing so is called fantasy.  The problem with that, of course, is you miss vital information in reality as it is.  There are a few things I do not think you understand in the cocoon you have built.

First, if the election were today you would lose.  By a landslide.  That’s right.  There has never been a President with approval ratings as low as yours.  The American people do not like what you are doing and how you are doing it.  As long as you surround yourself with family, friends and supporters and do not really listen to the critics you are not likely to get this important piece of reality.

Second, you are not CEO of USA.  You are not the boss of the government.  I know you are used to being the boss, are used to having all your underlings hanging on your every word, seeking to do your will, agreeing with you all the time, fawning and respectful.  That may happen in a corporation where you can announce in reality show fashion, “You’re fired!”  That does not work in our government.  You cannot fire the legislative branch.  You cannot fire the judicial branch.  You are to be a leader, not a CEO, not a bully, not a boss.  Leading is much more difficult than being the boss as it requires you to listen.  Your tweets are an indicator that you think we are all hanging on your next pronouncement of how good you are and how bad someone else is.  That’s just not true.  We read your tweets because we are amazed at the extent you simply just do not get it.

Finally, you are a public servant as is every elected official.  You are to serve the public, the entire public, not just your rich cronies and friends.  You are to serve citizens regardless of their ethnicity, race, sexual preference or identify and religious beliefs.  You do not get to say I will serve these Americans because I like them but I will not serve these Americans because I don’t like them.  You will be judged on how well you served the nation, not yourself.  You have spent a lot of time in this first year serving yourself, playing golf, appointing friends and family who are not qualified for anything other than blindly supporting you, tweeting whatever enters your mind, dishing out group and individual critiques.  None of that serves the county.  It serves you.  Please stop.

Putting Russia, money laundering, perjury and lying aside, yours will be remembered as the greatest failure of any President this nation has ever seen.  You will be remembered that way not by your friends and supporters because they are a minority.  You will be remembered that way by the vast majority of us who still cannot believe you simply do not get it.  The apprenticeship for elected leadership is public service, not self-service and public pontification.  You will be fired one way or another.