Dear Mr. Trump.
You are not qualified to be president.
You are a prime example of what any politician in any country, at any level of government should not be.
Void of empathy.
With 322 million people residing in the United States, people like you make up a very small minority.
What would you know about leading them?
The average household income in your country is $53,482 a year according to the United States Census Bureau.
Your net worth is $4.5 billion dollars.
You encompass the wealth gap that is occurring in the United States right now.
And the problem is that you do not see that as a problem.
According to CNN, the rich class has 6.6 times more money than the middle class.
But you started from the bottom, right, Mr. Trump?
You said at a town hall in late October that you only got a “small loan” of $1 million to start your company.
That makes you qualified to understand the working class?
That is your justification for dismissing the lower class as lazy.
If you did it, why can’t anyone else.
Your reality is not the same as the reality of the 46.7 million people living in poverty in the United States.
Your black and white world of people who work hard and people who do not does not represent the people of the United States.
Is your annual household income the only definition of working hard?
Does a million dollars in the bank define working hard?
Are people not just working hard enough when they cannot afford rent, food, or basic healthcare?
None of your views are new or secret.
On Mexicans: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime.”
On Muslims: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
On African Americans: “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.”
On women: “All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.”
This is the black and white world you live in, Mr. Trump.
There is no gray area.
You do not define them as people, just that black person on the corner or the Muslim down the block.
This is the not the world you actually live in, Mr. Trump.
You want to keep on bombing the Middle East, that will not solve terrorism problems.
You want to reverse Obama’s gun control executive order, that will not save the thousands of people killed in acts of gun violence in your country.
You want to build a wall to keep out Mexicans, that will not solve the immigration crisis.
You want America saved for the white people?
That will not silence the 72 million American people who are African American, Hispanic, Aboriginal or Middle Eastern.
But of course, you do not see this gray.
And guess what, Mr. Trump. If you are elected President of the United States of America, you will have to wake up and see the gray.
The world is made up of people from all view points and walks of life.
If people are not like you, do they count in the world?
Not everyone on welfare is lazy.
Not every Muslim is a terrorist.
Not every hispanic is an illegal alien.
But this is not how you see the world.
And this is not how a president should see the world.
But the world will have to work with you, and you will have to work with the world.
How do you see your neighbours to the north, Mr. Trump?
You might be the man we will have to deal with in trade, peacekeeping, agricultural, and environmental issues.
Will your black and white tactics work on a world scale?
Of course you’ll care about our oil but will you start to care about agricultural production in our grain belts?
Will you care about rural survival of places far from your Manhattan lifestyle?
This is what it is about being a president, Mr. Trump.
And it will affect all of us.
