Daily I pray that the Trump administration will fail to:

• Build Keystone and Dakota pipelines

• Build wall between U.S. and Mexico

• Gut Environmental Protection Agency to destroy public lands and offshore waters for gas and oil

• Withdraw from Paris Climate Accord and global efforts to save the planet

• Deregulate business and industry (inevitably leading to severe recession if not catastrophic depression when moguls run with their money)

• Cut taxes for the wealthy and increase burden on everyone else

• Privatize education and Social Security; gut Medicare and the Affordable Care Act

• Kill Planned Parenthood and ban abortions despite medical necessity

• Promote torture and increase detention at Guantanamo

• Instigate pogroms against immigrants, Muslims, people of color, gays and women

• Override constitutional rights

• Ever get his finger on the nuclear button

In fervent prayer,

Maryneal Jones, Columbus, N.C.