Dear Editor,

Listening to the President reminds me of the old parlor game of determining which story is true and which story is false but with Trump it is which story is false and which story is half false?

Trump’s illusory, self serving rhetoric is as fanciful as children’s fairy tales except children tales have a moral lesson, remember Jack and the Beanstalk?

Once upon a time, good son, Jack, and his impoverished, widowed Mother were out of food. Grocery prices were rising, and gasoline was expensive. Their milk selling income was tenuous, at best. Out of desperation, they voted to sell their only cow, Milky-White, and get food.

On the way to market, Jack met a wily, “tell them what they want to hear,” bigger than life,” salesman who saw Jack’s vulnerability. He offered Jack “pie in the sky” misinformation (five magic beans) for Milky-White which Jack accepted.

Mother America was furious and disgusted. She threw the beans out the window, which overnight grew to the heavens.

This 1734 English fairy tale continues with Jack three times climbing the stalk and each time hastily fleeing the aroused, angry, alien-like Giant. Each time, Jack returned,

first with the Giant’s gold cryptocurrency coins. Then Jack took the hen that lays golden tech company eggs. Lastly, Jack nabbed the magic harp that was golden for far right politicians however the harp warned its master before the wife could intervene.

The “Fee-Fi-Fom, I smell the blood of an Englishman” Giant chased the fleet footed Jack down the beanstalk and in so doing the slow moving, 6′ 2″ alien Giant with the Union of South Africa accent fell to its death. Jack had chopped down the magic beanstalk.

Voters Mother America and Jack lived very rich ever after.

The Moral of the story deals with Trust: the value of Trust and who to Trust? Good over evil.

There’s more truth in the fable than in Trump talk. The fable requires some reflection. Trump talk only requires absorption.

Don Scott

North Warren