Mr. President, I just saw the above message on one of my social media networks.

I want to say that your ability to denigrate the office you occupy knows no bounds. You disgust me in the extreme.

Why in the name of human decency would you take time from your effort to “make America great again” to level this kind of cheap, gratuitous and disgraceful message at a 16-year-old girl who has been honored as Time magazine’s “Person of the Year”?

Greta Thunberg was honored for her efforts to call attention to the existential threat that climate change is posing to the entire planet. She should be saluted, not ridiculed.

And you, our head of state/government/commander in chief saw fit to denigrate this young woman’s high honor. Oh, but your base loves this kind of churlishness coming from the president of the United States.

Mr. President, you sicken me to my core.