LETTER: Could 'The Donald' trump America?

As far back as the 1920s, famous writer and misanthrope H.L. Mencken is quoted as saying: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents more and more closely, the inner soul of the American people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

With the election and reelection of Barack Hussein Obama, Mencken’s satirical opinion writing is prophecy come true.

I don’t have as many doubts about Donald Trump as I do with a large swath of the American people. There are about 65 million Americans, (Obama voters) not including the millions of illegal aliens who are voting in our elections, who are beyond being called gullible or stupid.

To suggest that Obama, a man with a very murky and highly suspect family and Marxist cultural background, is more qualified to be president than a self-made billionaire with a demonstrable record of turning around a billion-dollar business empire on the verge of bankruptcy, and in short order, amassing a positive net worth just shy of $9 billion, is the kind of cogency best left to morons.

If Donald Trump has already proven he can competently manage and reorganize his own billion dollar business affairs, is he any less competent to manage and reorganize the very incompetent, terribly mismanaged business affairs of an enterprise known as The United States of America?

I pray to the Almighty for this nation, because I am not certain that Donald Trump can be one of the very few men that can turn this nation around. The man is 69 years old; if he serves as president for two terms he will be 77 years old.

Is Trump just selfishly greedy for another 10, 20, 50 billion dollars? Or is Trump more interested in leaving as his legacy the fact that he was the one man who took the failing enterprise known as the USA, brought it back from the brink of utter financial collapse, and now our ship of state rides high in the water, sailing at flank speed. —William Biernat, Columbia Falls