7/9/2025

My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,

                  Have you named your alter ego yet? If not, I encourage you to do so. Reca helped me get through my day yesterday by helping me rise above the fray when I felt disrespected. Rather than get overwhelmed by emotion, I took a breath, stood up straight & moved on. Your alter ego could help you avoid your angry outbursts which do not play well on social media.

                  I see that you’ll be meeting Joseph Nyuma Boakai (JNB), today. Please congratulate him on the peaceful transfer of power that his country had in 2023, which helped improve Liberia’s score to 4/4 on the Freedom House measure of whether the national authority was elected through free & fair elections.

Should JNB be hopeful you will reaffirm your commitment to regional stability, democratic governance, & inclusive economic growth? Please encourage him to follow through on his executive order to establish a war crimes court to adjudicate the atrocities that accompanied the civil wars of 1989 & 2003.

JNB needs help fighting corruption & will probably ask for you to restore some of the USAID funds you cut.  Liberian women don’t have access to reproductive care now & kids are dying of malaria. I encourage you to do something about that.

Liberia also needs help with protecting their pangolins, the most trafficked mammals in the world. The Chinese like their scales & the Liberians like their meat. They are easy to hunt because they roll up into a ball when threatened so you can just pick them up.

Since you are all about the deal, how about loaning JNB some $$ so he can take care of his people as they build mines to capitalize on the neodymium, lithium, cobalt, manganese, & uranium that China helped them to find. I know you don’t want to see XJ continue to corner the rare earth market.

As usual I request you keep an eye on Burma.

BYBS,