Re “Trump contradicts CIA on Khashoggi’’ (Page A1, Nov. 23): The office of the presidency has long been a top aspirational goal expressed by many parents and their children (“Someday I will be president of the United States’’). Now we have Donald Trump in this office.

Here we have a man who refuses to hold another man accountable for ordering the luring of a journalist into an embassy, where the journalist is brutally murdered and dismembered. How can this be? Well, it appears that in a Trumpian world, which is a “very, very vicious place,’’ anything goes. Trump makes no attempt to aspire to making the world less vicious. Instead, he aspires to use the viciousness of his so-called world as an excuse to do whatever it takes to reach his own goals.

I hope that someday we can retrieve the presidency of the United States from the smear of this Trumpian worldview and that once again it will be an office to aspire to, to work for the betterment of all beings, not just mainly for white people who hold a certain point of view. I especially invite my Republican sisters and brothers to consider the price this country and the world are paying for the Donald Trump presidency.

Jana Howe

Merrimack, N.H.