Ron Smith complains that the media "won't let" Donald Trump be elected president ("Donald Trump will never be president," April 21), but in fact he is not a serious candidate and deserves no serious coverage unless he acts like one. Not only does he show a poor grasp of the hard questions of policy and pander to racists with his fatuous demands for birth certificates and transcripts, he has no political web site. A search for contact information turns up only the business site, which includes an explicit note that unrelated emails will not be answered or forwarded.

A man who does not want to hear from citizens about issues has no interest in political office; the impossibility of electing him is due not to "the media" but to himself.

Katharine W. Rylaarsdam, Baltimore