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Says Donald Trump not presidential

Pull back the curtain, or in Trump’s case, the hairpiece, and I believe we’d find a man afraid to live in his own physical self. Pretty indicative of his depth right there.

I believe he’s conning frightened people into believing that he is a real world leader. The key word is frightened.

We must embrace the opposite, in most cases, of the political banter he exploits lest we be sucked into the very war that extremists (I don’t like to honor the inhumane extremists by using any of their said names) so desire.

Trump is still the front runner for the Republican Party. I believe he represents is old west fear and obsession with power.

His rhetoric represents a threat to freedom for all Americans. And it’s just what the extremists want, to threaten our freedom.

What started out a joke has now become extremely dangerous. The world is not reality TV. The world is watching Donald Trump and, likely, judging the intellect of large numbers of Americans based on his words.

True intellect is more crucial than ever in our president.

Firing Muslim people from America is not constitutional. This is not “reality TV.”

Linda Fitzsimmons Pierce, Bellingham

This story was originally published December 18, 2015 at 4:01 PM with the headline "Says Donald Trump not presidential."

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