Letter to the editor: Time for Trump to step aside

It is well past time for President Donald Trump to step aside and relinquish control of our nation’s response to the coronavirus. We need real leadership and compassion, not excuse-making, blaming of others and preposterous ad-lib comments about Easter timelines and miracle cures. Seeing our commander in chief, surrounded by his echo choir of bobblehead advisers, bumble through daily briefings filled with self-platitudes and deceptions is getting old.

We need to put a military person in charge of this disaster, one with the leadership and organizational skills of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower — one who listens to experts, believes in science and makes rational, fact-based decisions and pronouncements.

While I do not personally know the name of such a person, surely he or she must exist somewhere in the military hierarchy. Perhaps the person could be found among the generals Trump previously fired.

It is time to send Trump and his family packing to Mar-a-Lago — time to place a competent leader in charge.

Philip S. Kift

Ligonier