Editor, Gazette-Journal:Throughout history, the names of national leaders have been assigned epithets that described their personalities or administrations. Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Ethelred the Unready and Peter the Great are prime examples of this.Now we have President Donald Trump. He has affected this country in a negative fashion like no other president in history. He disbanded USAID, allowing food to rot rather than distribute it to starving people, he removed SNAP benefits from millions of Americans, he sent masked and armed ICE agents to knock down doors and pull people from their homes, he deported undocumented immigrants without due process, he fired thousands of career government employees without cause including scientists from NIH and CDC, he has canceled vital projects that would benefit citizens from states that voted against him, he seeks to cancel programs that would improve the air that we breathe, he plans to send armed troops to patrol cities that he doe...
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