Dear Donald,

Have a seat. We need to talk. And when we say that, we don't mean that you and we need to talk. We mean that WE THE PEOPLE need to talk, and that you need to listen.

We need to explain some things to you.

1) You work for us.

We know that you have spent most of your life being self-employed. You're not accustomed to having a boss, and therefore you're not accustomed to having real accountability. But on November 8, 2016, you were hired to become our employee. You seem to believe that you are in charge of us, but actually, we are in charge of you. You are accountable to us. And that means all of us, not just those who voted for you.

2) Most of us didn't want to hire you.

While 63 million of our neighbors voted for you, 66 million of us voted for Hillary Clinton, who warned us that hiring a businessman to run the country was a bad idea if the businessman was both dishonest and so incompetent that he bankrupted casinos. And more than 100 million of our neighbors chose not to vote at all. So altogether, nearly 170 million people did not vote for you - an overwhelming majority. With only 27 percent of eligible voters voting for you, the American people did not hire you. In other words...

3) You were hired by accident.

The American people did not hire you, the Electoral College did. A majority of American voters never wanted you. But we got you, anyway. And for three and a half years, we have experienced frustration, anxiety, alarm and outright horror as your job performance has gone from being every bit as bad as we thought it might be to being worse than most of us ever dared imagine.

4) Most of us can hardly wait to fire you.

Since the last election, we have been counting down the days to the next one, because it is the only opportunity the United States Constitution gives us to act directly to terminate your employment. Indeed, the number of us who are eager to fire you includes more and more people who voted for you in 2016, and who now deeply regret it. They don't like you either.

In fact, some of them dislike you so much that they have formed a group, Republican Voters Against Trump.

But that is not all. Some other Republicans who dislike you have formed another group, The Lincoln Project.

But that is not all. Some other Republicans who dislike you have formed a third group, Republicans for the Rule of Law.

Donald, your job performance has driven away people who believed you, people who trusted you, people who cheered for you at your rallies, people who liked you, and even some people who might have said that they loved you. They don't love you any more. They don't like you any more. They don't want to play with you any more. They're not your friends anymore. Now they're our friends. Now, like the rest of us, they actively oppose you. Now, like the rest of us, they want you to go away.

Let that sink in, Donald. The number of people who can hardly wait to fire you grows every day. We have no doubt that by November, there will be enough of us to bury you in a landslide election that will make you a laughingstock for decades to come.

To recap, you need to understand that:

1) You work for us,

2) Most of us didn't want to hire you,

3) You were hired by accident, and

4) Most of us can hardly wait to fire you.

All of that was a prelude. Now we'll get to the point of this letter, which is simply this: those of us signing this letter have realized that we actually CAN’T wait to fire you. We absolutely cannot.

In normal times, we would. We would wait until November to fire you, and focus our energy entirely, between now and then, on getting the votes needed to do that.

But these times are so far removed from normal that they force us as employers, to abandon normal thinking. They force us to remember that we are not merely voters, whose entire participation in our common life is limited to the single act of casting a ballot. No, we are, each and all, citizens - human beings sharing an obligation to bring all of our intelligence, all of our creativity and all of our agency to the public square for informed discourse, enlightened decision making and collective action for the common good.

We are not just voters, and voting is not the only action that we can take. It never has been. Indeed, it is only by taking other actions that most of us have gained the vote.

The last day of your contract is January 20, seven months away. As your employers, we have realized that we cannot afford to keep you for another seven months.

We can't afford to keep for another seven months an employee whose mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis has, of this writing (June 17), resulted in the deaths of 119,161 Americans since February 6. We have lost fellow citizens at the rate of 883 people per day. That's two 9/11s every week.

If that continues for seven more months, then an additional 190,728 Americans will die, bringing the total to nearly 310,000 - more than 3.5 times our military deaths in all of our wars and conflicts since World War II combined.

That's not even taking into consideration any likely increase resulting from people becoming as careless about protecting themselves and others as you have been all along.

We can't afford to keep you.

We can't afford to keep for another seven months an employee whose same mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis has resulted in the loss of 40 million jobs, wiping out more than a decade of job growth in two months. Last month brought 2 million new jobs, and now you boast about that being the largest one-month job gain in history. Great. Two million down, 38 million to go. At the rate of 2 million a month, it will take us 19 months to get employment back to where it was in January.

We can't afford to keep you.

We can't afford to keep for another seven months an employee who apparently lacks an understanding of his own job.

On January 20, 2017, you took an oath, as every President does, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. But since then, you have consistently spoken and acted as if you have never even read so much as the first paragraph of the Constitution, which says:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The Constitution which you swore to preserve, protect and defend was written to form a more perfect union. We the People cannot afford to keep for another seven months an employee who, instead of working to form a more perfect union, has for three and a half years consistently sown seeds of division and distrust, of resentment and rancor, among the American people.

We can't afford to keep you.

The Constitution was written to establish justice. In a time when the extrajudicial execution of a Black man has brought the entire nation to a new willingness to acknowledge racial injustice in our justice system, We the People cannot afford to keep for another seven months an employee who has yet to recant or revoke his call, many years ago, for the execution of five Black boys for a crime of which they have been proven innocent. Nor can we afford, in a moment when the entire nation appears to express a new willingness to acknowledge both the sinfulness of slavery and the devastating effects of systemic racism, an employee who appears determined to continue celebrating people who waged war against the United States to defend the practice of enslaving other people.

We can't afford to keep you.

The Constitution was written to provide for the common defense. We the People can't afford to keep for another seven months an employee who publicly declares that as President of the United States, he chooses to believe the President of Russia rather than his own intelligence agencies - a declaration that might well have given the Russian President such aid and comfort as to meet the United States Constitution's standard for treason.

We can't afford to keep you.

The Constitution was written to promote the general welfare. Do we need to say more about your handling of the coronavirus outbreak?

The Constitution was written to secure the blessings of liberty. We the People can't afford to keep for another seven months an employee who essentially declared war upon the First Amendment, with a militarized response to suppress citizens exercising the rights guaranteed by said Amendment. We understand that to declare war upon the First Amendment is to declare war upon the United States Constitution itself, which is to say upon the entire Nation which exists ONLY as the union of states who adhere to the Constitution.

The military leaders who have since decried that action understand this, and if you don't - we can't afford to keep you.

Finally, in these abnormal times, we can't afford to keep for another seven months an employee whom we do not and cannot trust to act like a normal person. Not a saint. Not a hero. Not a genius. Just a normal, stable person, demonstrating a normal degree of empathy or conscience.

We deeply wish that we could trust you to act like a normal person, Donald. But we cannot ignore the evidence of our own eyes and ears, which has confounded all efforts to view you and to treat you as normal. Nor can we dismiss the expertise of the mental health experts who, immediately upon your election, wrote an entire book warning us that you were dangerous; or the thousands of other mental health professionals who signed a petition stating that, AND WE QUOTE, "Trump is mentally ill and must be removed." While the press has largely ignored them, choosing rather to speculate among themselves whether or not there is something wrong with you, we cannot. We cannot afford to.

Indeed, we wish that someone in your inner circle, the people who benefit most from your position and who should have the strongest reasons to care for you, would care enough for you to intervene to look after your mental health. But because they have not, your presidency has become a clear and present danger to us all.

Our concern for that danger is compounded by signs that your neurological health may be in decline. We have noticed your increasing difficulty in forming words, and in completing sentences. We have noticed changes in your gait and in the use of your arms and hands. We know that you are first and foremost, simply a man, who is 74 years old, and whose father had Alzheimer's Disease, an affliction that tends to be hereditary. None of us should be surprised if age takes its toll upon you in ways that it commonly does for other men. And if it does, we should not be afraid or ashamed to say so.

For the safety of our nation and for your own well being, we say "Donald, it's time to give up the car keys."

For the safety of our nation and for your own well being, on this day, June 20, 2020, We the People call upon you, Donald John Trump, to resign from the office of President of the United States.

We take no pleasure in taking this action. We would rather wait to exercise our franchise in a free and fair election, resulting in a peaceful transfer of power, as has been the American way for more than two centuries.

But we are a nation in crisis, and crisis demands action that is not only urgent, but bold. Thus we take this action, of calling upon you to resign.

We expect your first response to be refusal, wrapped in rage. We expect you to lash out on Twitter. We expect you to consider retaliation against us for even daring to exercise our constitutionally-guaranteed and protected right to speak all these words.

Then, we expect the cooler heads around you to weigh the pros and cons on your behalf - and even more so, on their own.

And then, we expect your letter of resignation.

You have 30 days, or until July 20, to work through that process.

We are sending copies of this letter to our Congressional Representatives and to our U. S. Senators. We invite every member of Congress who cares even a little for the United States Constitution to join us in calling for your resignation. And we will remember in November how they respond now.

After your many years in business, no matter how poor you've been at it, you understand the consequences of missing a deadline. So hear this: if you do not resign by July 20, We the People will exercise all of our intelligence, creativity and agency to do everything legally or morally within our power to actively oppose your presidency every single day until you do resign.

We will engage in continuing protests and civil disobedience across the country.

We will boycott every corporation that supports you.

We will shut down corporations, or even entire industries, with a general strike.

Know this, Donald: we're smart, we're tough, we're strong, and we outnumber you by the millions - and all of us will utilize every ounce of everything we have in the campaign that we will mount against you if we must.

We will not physically harm anyone, nor deliberately damage property, but if you persist in your failed presidency and your doomed candidacy, we will find ways to make the next seven months the most miserable period of your life. We will dominate you daily. We will crush you in the election. And after the election, we will continue to actively oppose you until you resign, lest you become even more dangerous as a defeated president than you are now as a dysfunctional one.

We the People will outlast you. And we will win.

We know that you will face multiple legal challenges upon leaving office. But we can't do anything about that, nor will we speak to that. Our singular focus, and all that we have to say, can be summarized in two words:

Donald, resign.