Letter: America’s C-suite bosses are deluding themselves

In urging business leaders not to ignore the “uncertainty, economic radicalism and degradation” that would accompany Donald Trump’s return to the White House (“Business leaders’ myopic reversal on Trump”, FT View, June 20), your editorial states that American tycoons question President Joe Biden’s “mental acuity” as one reason for backing the felony-convicted former president.

That’s rich (pun intended). While Biden’s verbal gaffs are blown out of proportion, Trump’s deranged conversations with fictional characters such as The Silence of the Lambs’ “wonderful” Hannibal Lector, his meandering rant about preferring electrocution to being eaten by sharks, and forgetting the name of the doctor who administered the cognitive tests he brags to have “aced” are normalised as Trump just being Trump.

To consider Trump fit to perform the duties of president, including responsibility for the nuclear codes, is delusional. One hopes that C-suite occupants would have more common sense.

Alan Sutton
Laguna Niguel, CA, US