4/24/2019

My dear Friend and president, DJT,

            How was your visit with the photographers yesterday? Did you get a chance to chat with Doug Mills, your favorite NYT photographer? Folks say you like him because you are a visual person. I am, too. Give me a graph over a paragraph any day - the more complex the better. Did you see Doug's photo of José María Olazábal's ball skipping over the water at the Master's this year? Reminds me of a Seurat painting.

            I was surprised to see that you are spending 4 hours traveling to and from Atlanta and only 2 hours on the ground there. Are you sure you want to have a 2:1 travel time/stay time ratio? Our family avoids any ratio that is greater than 1 and we prefer to arrange things so we spend at least twice as much time visiting as we do traveling. There's so much you could do in Georgia. I'm sure the folks in Waycross, which has a terrible cancer cluster, would appreciate a visit. They would like to know which of the industries in their little town is responsible for making residents so sick. Or rather than travel in the state you could just stay at the Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summitwhere you could visit with Elinore F. McCance-Katz, your Assistant HHS Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use. She's worried that social media is exacerbating adolescents' isolation and sense of desperation which leads to drug abuse and suicide. She might have some ideas for how you can set a good example for youth in our country by using your Twitter account differently.

            On a different matter, have you been hearing about how Mick Mulvaneyprevented Kirstjen Nielsen from talking to you about Russia's efforts to interfere in our elections? I hope you'll be more receptive to conversations about how to protect our populace from disruptive foreign propaganda. We have enough disruptive domestic propaganda. We don't need any coming in from the outside.

            Take it easy,

            RCA