Clearly it’s desirable to have a president that will be a role model for our children.

What will our children learn from Donald Trump (a person whose life is the antithesis of the life of Jesus) who continually distorts and lies, who calls people who disagree with him nasty names like a 5th-grade schoolyard bully, who is thrice married and has had extra-marital excursions, who is narcissistic in the extreme, who has admired dictators, who gave a massive tax cut to the already morbidly rich, who denigrated members of our armed services, and being sociopathic is void of any empathy for others in dire circumstances?

And what about JD Vance, a possible president if Trump is elected and doesn’t survive his four years in office? Consider the following: Vance has accused Vice President Kamala Harris of being personally responsible for the deaths of 13 service members in Afghanistan in 2021 and of opening the southern border to “let these cartels bring in the poison that’s killing our families.” He has said that she plans to buy oil from “every tin-pot dictator,” is more interested in building the economy in “Communist China” than at home and longs to put truck drivers out of business and to force them into computer classes. Whew! He just pulled that out of thin air.

Vance said during an interview that he would have done exactly what Trump wanted on Jan. 6, 2021, and blocked electors from states that voted for Joe Biden. Trump and Vance are poster boys for sore losers. Trump’s Scottish Coat of Arms proclaims “Numquam Concedere (Never Concede).”

We thank Vance for his service in the Marines and sympathize Trump’s “heel spur,” but he and Trump are not suitable persons to be president of the United States and Commander in Chief of our Armed Services.

David Keranen

Bakersfield, California, and a former Copper Country resident. He is a graduate of Michigan State and Cornell universities and a veteran of the U.S. Army.