President Trump, We the People have work to do; the country has work to do; the world has work to do. With your decisions, so far, you have us all riveted to your personality and are preventing us from doing our daily work.

By requiring so much attention, pro or con your decisions, you are affecting the productivity of the country.

You are not yet acting presidential. To be presidential is to be statesman-like. To be presidential is to act on behalf of the entire population.

In the few short days of your presidency, you have managed to give us a long series of bad actions, through which you are subverting our country’s values and our sacred institutions.

As on your campaign trail, you are proving yourself to be a misogynist: You have nominated for a Cabinet position only two women, one VERY CONTROVERSIAL.

You are proving yourself to be a racist: On the eleventh day into your presidency, the first day of Black History Month, you managed to antagonize Black People and to offer a peculiar perception of the Holocaust.

Not even a month into your presidency, you have declared a verbal war on the Muslims, all Muslims, not the few radical ones.

You are intimidating the judiciary and your attacks raise safety concerns for judges who now feel they need extra police protection.

You are edging the country toward a police state.

A police state is ultimately supported by the Orwellian “speak”: an alternative fact is not a truth, it is a lie. Confucius put it in no uncertain terms: If you want to corrupt the people, corrupt first the language.

The press is not “the opposition party.” The press and the media in general form the Fourth Estate. The press, as the Fourth Estate, is the guardian of the truth—which does not mean that the press tells us always the truth and nothing but the truth.

Will you personally disavow attempts from your Administration to silence scientists within various Government Agencies? Like teachers, who, because they are directly or indirectly paid by the public, ought to exercise their faculties on behalf of the common good, government scientists are especially sworn to serve the public interest. To silence them is to block them from serving the public, including your political base.

Mr. President are you aware of the urgent need to come to the assistance of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau whose work has yielded nearly $12 billion in financial relief provided to about 27 million American consumers? 

You are perverting the traditional collegial manners of the United States Senate. With your mostly indefensible nominations, you have tied the Senate in knots. To get out of this predicament, the Senate President felt he had to SILENCE Senator Elizabeth Warren: She was only reading a letter by the late Coretta Scott King, the wife of the martyred Martin Luther King Jr., a letter written in opposition to what she perceived to be racist actions of your nominee to head the Justice Department. To silence the opposition is a classic Gestapo tactic.

You are twisting the purposes of the House of Representatives. Rather than working on projects aimed at the betterment of our common good, you are forcing our Representatives to spill revenues out of our blood, sweat, and tears—to do what? To keep half of one of your campaign promises. Remember your full promise. Remember who was supposed to pay for the wall along the Mexican border? You did not disclose that the American people were to pay for the wall. I trust that the American workers and the American small businessmen and business women—your political base—will soon realize this sleight of hand and will instruct our Representatives to do better things with our hard-earned money.

Why build such a wall? The final reason is that you are unwilling to work on two hard realities, the reality of the narcotics trade and the reality of our frayed foreign relations with Mexico.

Mr. President, if you do not reduce the demand for narcotics, your efforts to reduce the supply will come to naught.

Mr. President, in order to reduce inevitable frictions with Mexico, you have to allow Mexico to solve its internal problems of production and distribution of wealth. This is a problem we share with Mexico. This is our COMMON problem of economic justice.

Rather than trying to separate ourselves from Mexico, and other Latin American countries, let us enter into a friendly competition with Mexico, and all other countries of the world, to see who is best able to solve the problem of economic justice. Fewer workers will then devote their lives to the production of destructive drugs; with legitimate jobs in their beloved homeland plentiful, fewer people will need to cross the border.

Do we have any problems with our Canadian friends to the North?

Mr. President, we Americans have work to do. Mr. President, the world has work to do. YOU HAVE WORK TO DO ON YOURSELF, FOR YOURSELF.

Perhaps, Mr. President, if you cannot change your ways, and fairly soon, you have the duty to raise your internal fortitude—and resign. As a growing chorus of specialists is asserting, you may need to recognize that you are temperamentally unfit to govern a country as unruly as the United States, and grant yourself the privilege of enjoying your hard-earned retirement to private life.

At first, I tried to beg you to curb your authoritarian tendencies, lest you become another Mussolini or Hitler, and plunge the country into an unmitigated disaster—as they unavoidably did.

There is still time for you to change your ways.

But rather than calling on your intellectual and moral resources in cautionary tones, I am now making my plea to you in a firm voice: Unless you change your ways, be ready to be impeached.

Not everyone can be the President of the United States of America. You seem to be psychologically unfit to respond to this call.

Your worst betrayal of the American values is THE BETRAYAL OF THE INTERESTS OF YOUR OWN CONSTITUENCY.

Workers and small business men and business women entrusted you with their vote based on your promise to FINALLY take care of their—long neglected—interests. Clearly, the Republican and Democratic elite have for long served their own interests only, and not the common good.

You promised to clear the Washington swamp. Once in power, you have been surrounding yourself with people who lurk in the swamp.

For me, the turning point came at your nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to sit on the sacred Supreme Court bench.

Listening to your presentation and to the remarks of Judge Gorsuch, I was full of hope. This is a brilliant mind that does what is just.

As soon as I learned of his record I felt betrayed.

How can you expect, Mr. President, that a man who has consistently cast his weight against the interests of workers will suddenly change? He will favor the corporate interests. He will flood the swamp.

Mr. President, you have betrayed the interests of your constituency.

Admit now that so far you have made one mistake on top of another. Change your ways. Or resign.

You know, or you should know, that there is an impending implosion of unprecedented severity of the Stock Market. Too many responsible people are warning us of this inevitability.

You are doing nothing to prevent the disaster in the Stock Market that will affect the poor, the middle class, and THE RICH. On the contrary, your actions are draining the intellectual and moral resources of the country to work on the prevention and the cure of this disaster.

Enough of your antics. We have work to do. Either you help us do it or, please, get out of the way.

Carmine Gorga, PhD, is president of The Somist Institute. He was born in Southern Italy when Mussolini ruled.