1/8/2020

My Dear Friend and President, DJT,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-applauds-greek-comeback-in-white-house-meeting/2020/01/07/2cd76c90-3191-11ea-971b-43bec3ff9860_story.html

It sounds like your meeting with KM yesterday was amicable. It was nice of you to compliment Greece for getting itself out of its economic crisis. I hope you didn’t promise him any weapons.

            I hope you & I can make some good decisions in the next few days. My decisions have to do with my car, trivial in the scheme of things, but perhaps representative of a larger problem of needing to simplify my material life so that I can concentrate on other more important things.

Your decisions are much more monumental and I am hoping that you will take your time and avoid acting on impulse. In the articles that I read this morning you are criticized for your “seat-of-the-pants governance,” for having a “chaotic and mistake-prone public response” and perhaps worst of all “accomplishing what no one in the Iranian elite thought possible” uniting “a fractured, exhausted and desperate Iranian public in a show of unity.” I hope that the speech you are about to give helps us understand your strategy.

            Best,