Dear President Trump
I’m not here today to criticize you. I’m not here today to praise. I’m not here to only convey my personal opinion. I’m writing to represent the thoughts and concerns of how your presidency affects the future of teenagers worldwide. Research shows that most millennials don’t feel represented and oppose most of your ideologies. More than 6 in 10 millennials disapprove of your job performance, according to a new poll. As shown your popularity is quite low among younger generations. As a millennial I will now explain the reason for that and tell you how you could change this fact.
First most millennial’s feel like you don’t want our support. However it is a very significant group to have support from. If you have the approval of younger generations, this will mean that the population feels that you’re reforms are going to make America great in a long-term scale.
You need to be more open to new ideas and long-term solutions and stop being so extreme. Consider your policies on global warming. Many uncertainties were brought up by the fact that a leader of such a superpower, as the U.S., does not believe in global warming. This concerns our generation and parents today. Amy Castro is an example of many millennials who are personally concerned about this. “Ignoring global warming is a way he’s ignoring the future of younger people,” the 27-year-old tax collector told me during an interview at L.A.’s Grand Park. “It also just makes me and most people I know classify him as ignorant and feel distant from him and his ideas.”
(Picture taken at Grand Park)
The fact that you are contradicting a proven fact makes you seem uninformed as a leader. “Global warming is scientific, there’s no way he can go against that”(Amy Castro, 27). According to NASA “Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.”
Furthermore your ideas make you seem biased. The fact that you think a way to combat terrorism is to limit access to the Internet concerns people. You recently gave a speech and said, “We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet and we have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas closing that Internet up in some way.” . This makes people feel worried especially younger generations who are internet’s biggest users. And what about worldwide people who enjoy seeing your morning tweets Mr. President?
Seventeen-year-old Marcela Lutfalla, is my roommate from Brazil. She was really concerned when found out about the possibility of limiting Internet access. “I feel that Donald Trump’s ideas sometimes seem like a joke, but then I remember he is the president and it’s not a joke anymore, I plan on studying in the U.S. next year and not being able to access internet to Brazil would be terrible. I know many American friend’s which would be disgusted by his idea.”
Mr. President, can you please be more adaptable? This is the only way for Americans to unify and improve living conditions. Millennials are the future, we need your help to have an upright future. Young generations don’t feel represented by your presidency. If the population feels distant from their government, they’ll feel even more distant from one other. Unifying the population is the only way of making America great again.
Yours Sincerely,
Julia Azevedo
