Regarding the May 19 front-page article “Do 44 and 45 signal a new view of the presidency?”:
Mr. Trump was and is unqualified: never elected to office, never participated in government, had little knowledge of the legislative process or the Constitution. Mr. Trump did break the mold, in a bad way.
Voters were misled into choosing Mr. Trump with the false belief that he had successful businesses. Voters believed wrongly that Congress twiddled its thumbs during Mr. Obama’s last six years in office. But Republicans blocked Mr. Obama’s legislative initiatives — and many judicial appointments — so nothing was accomplished. Unfortunately, many voters did not understand the reality and thought Mr. Trump would be a solution, whereas the solution would have been to get rid of the obstructionist Republicans.
Susan McDonald, Washington