8/26/2025

My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,

                  How many of my mantras do you remember? I’ve come up with so many of them, I can hardly keep track. Of course, you know WINTA & I like to think you repeat that one to yourself constantly as you ponder how best to get the Nobel Peace Prize (NPP).

                  SoW, I’d nominate you for the NPP if you could broker a truce between the Arakan Army & the junta so the Rohingya could go home. Hopefully, you heard that yesterday was Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day to make note of the 6700 who were killed & 700,000 who fled in a military crackdown in 2017. Bangladesh's interim leader, NPP laureate Muhammad Yunus, took the occasion to urge the international community to facilitate a process for their safe return because his country can no longer afford to house 1.3 million people in camps.

                  Perhaps you can invite MY to the WH to get his advice on how to win the NPP. He believes that “peace is threatened by unjust economic, social & political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation & absence of human rights.” Food for thought as you move forward in your administration.

                  Back to mantras. I hope you recall that God is Change! That one is inspired by Octavia Butler & helps me to welcome the dynamism of life. It goes along with the phrase, “this too shall pass” which Pres Lincoln explained in a 1859 speech saying, “And this, too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"

                  The last mantra that comes to mind today is my equation, “Truth + Honesty + Kindness = Love.” That’s a tricky one & I’d love to see more kindness from you.

                  Sorry to be preachy, but I think you need more folks around you who have the courage to be honest. Folks like South Korean President Lee Jae Myung feel that they have to flatter you. The CSM says diplomats have shifted “from traditional diplomacy to psychology” when meeting with you. I like to think you are a confident guy that doesn’t need folks fawning over him to feel good. Am I right?

                  BYBS,