To the Editor:

Mr. Waldrop, as always, nails the truth to the sticking-place in his last letter to The Smoky Mountain News. Fellow citizens, are you not beyond sick of having your mind constantly invaded by President Trump’s hate-filled, childish insults even to his own appointees? By his obsession with money alone? By his complete inability even to understand basic morality? By his enraged face?

No wonder over 20,000 psychologists and psychiatrists wrote Congress explaining that his behavior is so flagrant, so public, that it is unquestionably that of a dangerously mentally ill person? And just this month over 700 historians have petitioned Congress to impeach, explaining how the president is a grave threat to national security? Their letter was quoted in Forbes Magazine Dec. 17 and elsewhere.  

The president’s mental state, regardless of politics, has clearly been abnormal since way before the 2016 election. Psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins Medical School and Yale even wrote books explaining in detail the nature of Trump’s escalating mental illness, so extreme that it makes him unfit to hold any public office. Twenty-seven mental health professionals contributed articles to another book explaining how his behavior shows him to be unquestionably mentally. 

Never mind politics, people. This man should resign for reasons of ill health. 

Mary Curry

Cullowhee