To the Journal editor:

I thank Mr. Ruhinen for his thought-provoking, insular letter. It gave me pause to look up the exact meaning of “objective” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. This is what I found.

Two particular meanings were found. One was an adjective, the other, a noun.

The adjective was “treating or dealing with facts without distortion by personal feelings or prejudices.”

The noun was “an aim, goal or end of action.”

Undeniability, President Trump’s distortion of facts, injections of his personal prejudices and lack of action in regard to COVID-19 continues to be problematic for the American people.

Innocent people across the nation have died due to the lack of vision, inability to acknowledge or grasp the immediacy of the warning signs coming from China, as early as late last December.

On the news (recently), he continues with his own agenda to disavow any knowledge of COVID-19, stating he didn’t even know about it till (February). We were aware of the threat as early as Jan. 4 by expert scientists who had intimate knowledge of this imminent pandemic.

The U.S. death total is near 43,000 with more than 800,000 cases. The death total continues to rise.

Political finger pointing at the Obama administration serves no practical purpose except to stir discontent from a nation that needs to gather together and unite to fight this menace to our way of life.

The objective aim or goal should be for our president to ease our fears and anxiety, have concise answers to rapidly arising problems related to this virus with experts ready to advise and offer practical solutions to this crisis. Trump’s dissembling attitude toward this pandemic serves no purpose now.

I am nonplussed that I must turn to state and local leadership because we have no viable federal leadership in place to meet this situation head on.

Also, I find it offensive that Trump appears apathetic to America’s plight. His cavalier attitude toward a country he wore an oath to serve and protect proves time and time again he is unsuited and unfit to sit in the Oval Office.

As a person who dearly loves my country, I respectfully beg to differ with you, Mr. Ruhinen, in light of the fact that Donald Trump is not doing his job.

DEBRA LINDE

Palmer