3/18/2026
My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,
How are you feeling today? Confused? Distraught? Anxious? Conflicted? Frustrated? Enraged?
Maybe all of those.
I ask, because you only let certain emotions show. I’m afraid you’ve internalized the toxic message of our sexist society that “real men” don’t cry. You’ve surrounded yourself with other people who have been similarly socialized & it’s making everyone suffer.
It doesn’t have to be that way. You could show the full range of your feelings & express the dissonance you have about how to get yourself out of the mess you’re in.
Disparaging your friends in front of the whole world, like you did yesterday, is not going to ameliorate your discontent. If anything, it’s going to make you feel even more alone.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin was trying to help you with that yesterday when he reminded you “you have a capacity to get on with him (Keir Starmer), you've got on with him before.”
I’m inquiring about your feelings because I found myself weeping reading about Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, MN, who was killed on March 1 in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, during an unmanned aircraft system attack. She was just days away from returning home to her husband & two children. You witnessed her coffin’s “dignified transfer” last week when you made that wardrobe error of wearing a baseball cap.
If you feel like weeping when you participate in the “dignified transfer” this afternoon, you should! It will show that you are feeling the full effects of this war. I’m afraid that some of the propaganda being put out by your team makes it look like you think this war is fun. According to J Poniewozik writing in the NYT, your “social-media videos turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment.”
In addition to the military families who have lost loved ones, millions of Iranians are suffering because of what we are doing. Please stop it now. WINTA!
The world does not need any more heart ache. The children of Burma, Sudan, Ukraine & Gaza have been enduring hardship for far too long.
As you ponder how to get yourself out of the terrible situation you are in, please consider this observation from Viktor Frankl, “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
BYBS,
