Letter to the editor: Both Trump, Biden should retire

If former President Donald Trump truly believes in making America great again, he will become the patriot he has asked others to be and will announce that he will not be a candidate for president in 2024. One of the last things this country needs is a vindictive narcissist in the White House.

Because I thought that both major parties nominated flawed candidates in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, I voted for Trump because I believed the political philosophy of his administration would be more closely aligned with mine. During the early years of his term, when he had strong, competent Cabinet members, his administration took many steps to get this country headed in the right direction. His desire, however, to replace those Cabinet members with sycophants, his actions during the last year of his term, and his actions since he left office have convinced me that he should never be returned to the highest office in the land.

While I have spent most of this letter addressing Trump, I have the same message for President Biden. Mr. President, please save us further economic pain and suffering by announcing that you are retiring on Jan. 20, 2025. A rerun of the 2020 presidential election can only exacerbate the tension that currently exists in this nation.

Somewhere in this country there must be someone, whether Democrat or Republican, who possesses the leadership necessary to heal this country’s divisions and guide it toward being the prosperous land of freedom and opportunity that our children and grandchildren deserve.

John F. Hose

Greensburg