My Dear Friend and President, DJT,
This will be another short letter as I have to go to Sacramento this morning to commune with STEM educators from all over the state. Our mission, help teachers teach their students to think rather than memorize. Sounds simple but turns out to be quite complicated! Isn't that how most things are?
I know you prefer to simplify problems and whittle them down to an us against them situation. You did that last year at your UN speech when you vilified Kim Jung Un, calling him "Rocket Man." I think you are coming to realize it's not so simple in Korea, and Kim Jung Un is as inscrutable as you are.
I think you'll find that when you speak with Ivan Duque, the new president of Colombia, that things are not as simple there as you'd like. Eradicating coca farming means that growers will need to replace that crop with something else, and it will not be nearly as lucrative. Using tough-guy law-and-order tactics will just fuel another resistance, and Colombia will be back where they were a few years ago with a civil war on their hands.
I hope that Stephen Miller had some help writing this morning's speech. Last year's UN speech was way over the top. The assembled world leaders want to hear that the US is a peace maker, a team builder, a leader in democratic values. I want to hear that too.
Hope it all goes well,
RCA