To the Editor:
Aren’t you sick of it?
The late-night rage tweeting. The petty whining about the damned Nobel Peace Prize. Calling female reporters names like a schoolyard bully. Mocking the disabled.
Are there any public buildings safe from having his name plastered across them? Proposing monuments to himself with our tax dollars—while tearing down historic buildings that belong to us, not him. Let’s not forget the massively gaudy ballroom no one needs, funded by ethically questionable donor dollars. Guess who’ll pay for maintenance.
Demanding military parades in his honor, à la China. Trashing allies. Trampling treaties. Insulting allied nations and casually talking about annexing their land. Watching Gaza discussed as a future redevelopment opportunity—floated by his son-in-law like a beachfront deal. All while hawking luxury cars on the White House lawn, turned Big Donny’s Elite Motors.
Telling us he’d show us his taxes—then telling us we don’t want them. And now, because someone leaked them, Trump is suing the government he leads for $10 billion over his tax records—money that would, of course, be paid by us. He says he’ll donate it to charity, perhaps one close to home. The grift feels endless.
Then he complains that he’s the most abused president we’ve ever had. Someone should tell him about Abraham Lincoln.
And I haven’t even mentioned Epstein. Or 2020—with 60 court cases that went against him. 60. All of them. Plus two recounts. Epstein, warrantless searches, smashing windows, babies in detention camps, crypto scams …
I’m too tired to list all the drama. It makes me nostalgic for the good old days—when all I had to worry about was Joe Biden getting lost trying to leave a room.
Don’t you just want to wake up to a little peace and quiet—food prices easing, housing costs going down, not up—and no new dumpster fire before breakfast?
Pat Collins,
Fillmore, Ca.
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To the Editor:
It’s sometimes painful to have an “opponent” prove your case. Your retreat to characterizing our political differences as “semantics” is unworthy of you.
I have referred to Trump’s determination to turn our constitutional republic into an autocratic regime, but “silly kingship” has been embraced numerous times in Trump’s own virtual cards and reposted pictures of himself as a potentate, including one with a crowned Trump spreading his voluminous feces from a plane onto protestors below.
Trump has said that there is only one restraint on him, “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” How about the Constitution? Trump has also called for “nationalization” of federal elections, overseen by Republicans to ensure “honesty.” Compare statements of Republican congressionals just after January 6 and those three weeks later, and you will see that “honesty” went to the highest bidder. Last week, Trump’s Truth Social site posted a video again claiming the 2020 election was “stolen,” that included the heads of former president Barack Obama and Michelle atop gorillas “born” in the jungle. The WH blamed “a staffer” (likely Voldemort Miller) for the racist message, but Trump would not apologize and did not try to call it a “joke,” though he was finally pressured to take it down. These are not just “inexplicably ignorant and petty” acts and remarks, Martin. They are who Trump is.
Often overlooked is the conservative acceptance of Trump’s betrayal of the Second Amendment in the Good and Pretti murders. “You can’t walk in with guns. You just can’t,” he said. Decades of defending shooting massacres to win gun owners’ votes, yet the sacredness of gun ownership was easily discarded when Trump needed justification for his storm troopers’ actions. Not a peep from Republicans, who apparently agree that only liberal protestors have no Second Amendment rights, unlike a Kyle Rittenhouse.
The Epstein Files are still not fully disclosed. Two million more have been designated as “privileged”, a defense unknown in the Documents Law. The information divulged is bone-chilling and heartbreaking. Many victims’ names, driver’s licenses, and photos, were left unredacted, though the perpetrators were all protected.
Trump has called for the country “to move on,” without justice for the victims, without accountability for the perpetrators, in a brazen betrayal of the Rule of Law, Trump’s oath of office, and promises to his own base. Trump knows the truth, and he is doing everything in his power to make sure that the country never does. It’s a fair question: “How bad is it, really?”
You are remarkably sanguine that Trump, “holds global security in his hands.” A man who drips self-congratulation, wraps himself in victimization, forever absolves himself of blame and ridicules others, openly admires dictators, takes another’s Nobel Prize as his own, treats immigrants inhumanely, is building an outlandish ballroom and massive Arc d’Trump in a time of economic uncertainty, and collects personal tribute from foreign nations (with permission from the Republican Congress). Every country in the world knows his vast vulnerabilities.
Like an old yellow dog lifting his leg on everything around him, Trump demands renaming the Kennedy Center, Penn Station, and Dulles Airport, for himself, as quid pro quo for unfreezing $16 billion in designated federal funds for two vital infrastructure projects in NYC..
Trump is not operating for the country’s security. He’d sell it for parts if it were to his advantage.
Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore, Ca