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Letter: That’s what I’m hearing

(Patrick Semansky | AP) President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Washington.

Some people say President Trump isn’t doing everything within his power to defeat this pandemic and counter its attendant economic crisis.

Some people say President Trump simply doesn’t take his role as commander in chief seriously. He reportedly spends hours watching cable television and on the phone in exchanges with cronies. He spends little time consulting with experts and often dismisses their advice, and instead makes impulsive decisions. He assigns large swaths of his schedule to unspecified “executive time.” He spends days on end golfing and conducting rallies, etc.

Some people say he is not only psychologically, morally and intellectually unfit to be president, but that, in addition, he is simply too lazy and preoccupied with his own image to be president.

Some people say Trump spends too much of his “executive time” getting properly coiffed and oranged each day.

That’s what some people say. That’s what they tell me. That’s what I’m hearing.

Andrew G. Bjelland, Salt Lake City

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