President Trump doesn’t understand that Maine Gov. Janet Mills has compassion and empathy with the constituents she serves. And Gov. Mills understands that she serves her constituents, not the other way around. The president has much to learn from our governor’s role model.

Gov. Mills has worked as the first woman DA in the country, and then as attorney general. She understands issues her constituents face, and she understands and accepts teenage transgender girls for who they are, and she also understands that suicide has a very high instance in transgender people. She has empathy as a leader and as a person.

Gov. Mills makes Maine a safe place where all our children can thrive.

I hope that once President Trump leaves office he has produced half of the real needs of his constituents that Gov. Mills has provided all Maine children, including Maine’s transgender children.

Bob Jean

Lubec