Taxpayers shouldn’t pay for Trump’s photo op  

To the Editor;

I read earlier this week about President Trump coming to Maine with little advance warning for the state, against our governor’s wishes during a pandemic, and potentially at significant cost to taxpayers in Maine. I hate to disabuse the residents of Guilford, but this does not seem to be a compassionate trip by him to praise factory workers making swabs, but rather a campaign strategy for which he is willing to create havoc, act in unsafe ways, and create a financial burden for Maine (that is not reimbursed by the federal government) just to have a photo op.

I suggest that in the future that Maine not provide additional security for him at great expense because these photo ops are not needed, are in fact a problem for our state, and unfairly makes Maine residents essentially support his reelection campaign.

Diane Follingstad

Belfast