Donald Trump hardly knows how to read but he call the media "Enemy of the People", when he does not read what is reported

Echo opinion letter published in New Castle News, Pennsylvania:

Trump called the free press the “Enemy of the People.” 

(Maine Writer- If Donald Trump knew how to read, he would figure out how to get along with the media instead of calling names.)

The free press and our fair, free elections are the foundations of democracy.

Stating that the free press is “false news” from a president who has told over 4,200 falsehoods since he took office is the height of hypocrisy. Moreover, the free press is the only profession protected in the Constitution.

Trump held a private conversation with Putin, a master of lies. Trump feels it is better to talk to despots while maligning and debasing America’s allies.

Chamberlain and others met with Hitler in September 1938, and Chamberlain returned to England with a paper from Hitler that he held high and stated “it is peace in our time.” 

But, as we know now, within a few days, Czechoslovakia fell to Germany. Perhaps the Ukraine will go to Russia after Trump’s conversation.

Trump’s demagoguery and constant lies against refugees have led him to take children from their parents, which could end with over 400 orphaned children. All of this is done to obtain money for the wall on Mexico’s border, of which he promised Mexico would provide the funds.

Trump blames everyone but himself for problems. In “Julius Caesar,” Cassius stated “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings.” 

Republicans must stand up to Donald Trump and stop being subordinate. (Trump) even used George Orwell’s “1984” when he told listeners at a rally, “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”

The United States will move on to new presidents and will be stronger for all past experiences. Decades from now, when historians write about Trump, many will recall the words of William Shakespeare's Macbeth: “Out, out, brief candle. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Vince Scialabba in New Castle

Donald Trump has a huge negativity problem and it is showing up in all news media I scan for my blogs

The sad legacy of Donald Trump.

Echo opinion letter published in The Citizens Voice
Maine Writer comment: During my years as a blogger, I have never seen such a national ground swell of negativity as are currently published about the President of the United States, being expressed in practically every print media source I scan for my news blogs. Donald Trump wants to stop negative reporting he claims is coming from CNN, MSNowNews and Politico, but the truth is, his negative coverage is in every newspaper I read. 

To the Editor: Trump has failed America with his forever war and is the cause of diesel fuel high prices along with gas prices. 

Trump’s latest outrageous statement was telling Ukraine to stop bombing Russian oil refineries, claiming that is what’s causing higher costs world wide at the pumps.

I would like MAGA cult to reread my first paragraph. MAGAs, if you have any common sense, the first thought would be Trump is lying and he should be telling Putin to stop bombing Ukraine but that will not happen because he is in bed with Putin.

Sadly, his tariffs, especially against Canada, our closest ally, are despicable, to say the least.

Sadly, we are not as safe as a nation today because of Trump.

Sadly, now most Americans don’t feel the pride that they had for 250 previous years because of Trump.

Ukraine is holding their own but sadly without the offensive and defensive weapons they asked for but did not receive because of Trump and that made his buddy Putin very happy.

In closing, Trump said at the Republican (fake) mid-term convention on September 10, about voting, and I quote, “ Cheat like hell.” A despicable thing to say about the most sacred thing about our democracy.

From Steve Oliveri, in Carbondale, in Lackawanna County Pennsylvania

https://www.citizensvoice.com/opinion/

Donald Trump and maga Republcians are caught in a quicksand of evil incompetence

Echo opinion letter published in TribLive (Tribune Review), a Pennsylvania news source:

Let’s be frank: Donald Trump has no clue as to how to make a deal. His advisers and cabinet appointees follow his every lead whether through ignorance or loyalty. They hardly ever choose the right path. Most of them are out of their element, including the president.

It’s tiresome 🥱😦 to see him announce actions and then withdraw. He continues to have imaginary concepts of imaginary solutions to problems needing resolution, most of which were caused by him in the first place. Very little has borne fruit, mostly rotten fruit.

He has murdered people on boats with no proof of wrongdoing. 

Trump created an illegal war with Iran but had no plan to achieve the goals he announced. He alienated our allies, like our friends in Canada, with insults and unfair trade tactics. He destroyed treaties and pilfered the people’s treasury.

Let’s make a change. Get out and vote November 3. 

Put a Congress in place that will take back their Article 1 responsibility and get control of this death spiral. 

(In other words, it is time for Senator Susan Collins to move on❗)

From Leonard Mucci in Derry Township

Donald Trump and maga Republicans are not supporting American democracy

Echo opinion letter published in the Pennsylvania Reading Eagle

The slogan of the MAGA (cult❗) movement has always been “America First.” But it appears to be moving our society in a direction that is profoundly un-American.

MAGA`s social model is a two-tiered society of the rich and the poor, with the middle class eliminated or reduced. The upper tier will be difficult to move into, with harshly enforced standards of race, religion, social class and education. Rights will be rationed out only to those meeting the approval of the ruling elite. Political dissent will be ruthlessly suppressed. We are seeing this already in the legal harassment of journalists and the consolidation of media outlets.

In short, MAGA`s America will follow an authoritarian pattern, with a rigid class structure resembling that of the European aristocracy that our ancestors rejected 250 years ago.

Patriotic Americans need to act now to preserve our democracy. 

Use your rights to speak out, organize and vote while those rights still exist.

From Steven R. Gruber in Robeson Township Pennsylvania

Donald Trump is a selfish creature who lies about everything and very wrong to criticize Canada and our Canadian neighbors

Letter: It’s wrong to take on our friends in Canada
Donald Trump's short-sighted incompetent policy overlooks generations of cooperation.

Echo opinion letter published in the Pennsylvania Reading Eagle:

I hope we all remember that the first safe place of rest and peace for Americans coming from Europe on September 11, 2001, and after was our neighbor Canada. 

The kind and caring friends in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia housed and cared for foreign travelers for weeks. They never mentioned tariffs from the United States or that Donald Trump called them very impolite and rude names. They just loved us without thinking about their own fears and sadness.

I grew up in Detroit, where Canada was a bridge or ferry away. We shared Great Lakes summer vacations; we took trips to see another country where they looked just like us and smiled more.

9/11 is hard to bear 25 years later. Many of us are ashamed by how we treat our northern and southern neighbors. Have patience with us.

This ill will cannot last must longer. 

From Gail Dawson-White in Wyomissing Borough Pennsylvania

Americans desperately need disaster relief from the corrupt Donald Trump administration- Vote Blue!

Letter: It’s one disaster after another in the Trump administration
Donald Trump's promises amount to nothing or worse.

Published in the Pennsylvania Reading Eagle:

Donald Trump promised to lower gas and grocery prices. 🤥He didn’t. He said he wouldn’t start any wars. 🤥He did.

He said he put tariffs on Canada now because they’re ripping us off. But in his first term he made a deal with Mexico and Canada that he called “the most significant trade agreement in history.”

Months of international negotiations, led by nuclear physicist Ernest Monez, produced the previous Iran nuclear deal. The eight signatories included the European Union, China and Russia. The International Atomic Energy Agency did regular inspections. Nothing was bombed, and nobody got killed to accomplish this. International commerce flowed freely through the Strait of Hormuz.

With no evidence of Iranian cheating other than gut feelings and a nudge from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump started the “four to five weeks incursion” to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability. He sent Jared Kushner (who still lacks security clearance) and Steve Witkoff to negotiate a new deal. They are experts in finance, not in international diplomacy. Neither one has any background in Middle East history, culture, traditions and religions or nuclear science. It’s obviously not going well.

Bombs have caused destruction that will cost us taxpayers billions to replace. Many thousands were killed, including school kids and 18 Americans. 😢

Commerce is strangled, prices are rising, there’s no exit plan, and Iran is more determined than ever to build a bomb.

But the Jeffrey Epstein teenage sex trafficking scandal has not been in the news for a while now.

From Jane Beck in  Brecknock Township,  Pennsylvania

Vote Blue❕

Donald Trump is an evil creature who created a cult of personality. Republicans must expel this evil from our government.

We need Republicans who will stand up to Trump

Echo opinion letter published in TribLive.com

Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins is not listening❗

Republicans like Senator Susan Collins who refuse to stand up to Donald Trump, a creature who abuses his authority, should be voted out and replaced by Republicans who are not part of a cult of personality or beholden to one man.

The unwillingness of Republican members of Congress, like Reublican Senator Susan Collins, to speak out against Donald Trump’s flagrant misuse of authority will damage the world’s perception of and the trust in the United States for decades.

Donald Trump's communication style — crude, rude, abrasive, bullying, disrespectful, cruel and antagonistic — is beneath the standard we should expect from our elected leader.

We must hold our elected Republican legislators accountable for the mess our nation is in. Democrats, when they regain control of Congress, must also resist the temptation to govern through the same divisive tactics.

Finally, we need to overturn Citizens United and place reasonable limits on political contributions. Allowing wealthy individuals to exert disproportionate influence over elections undermines our democracy.

We can do better. Our nation deserves much better.

From James Mitnick in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania

Donald Trump certainly failed again when he tried to bully Canada into signing an unfair bad faith trade agreement with the U.S.

Opinion letter published in The New York Times:

I applaud Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, for walking away from the recent trade negotiations with the United States and moving to counter Washington’s tariffs dollar for dollar. And I believe most Americans quietly (and many not so quietly) do also.

Donald Trump and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick used bad-faith last-minute bargaining tactics to try to force Prime Minister Carney into signing an unfair deal for Canada, including expanding the scope, buried clauses and threats to Canada’s sovereignty. Prime Minister Carney was right to walk away from the negotiations.

Canada is our second-largest trading partner. Millions of Americans benefit every day from the free movement of goods, services, energy and investment across our shared border.

That relationship should be treated as an extraordinary asset, not as leverage to force Canada into accepting an agreement that it believes is fundamentally unfair.

Prime Minister Carney has made clear that Canada remains willing to pursue a mutually beneficial relationship with the United States. But, also, Mr. Carney made clear that Canada will not compromise its sovereignty simply to obtain a deal.

As an American, I hope Canadians recognize that most Americans still value the extraordinary relationship that our two countries have built over generations. Donald Trump and his advisers do not speak for a majority of Americans today.  We patiently wait for the next election.

From Jeffrey Logan in Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Donald Trump and maga Republicans like Senator Susan Collins are causing ruin to our nation driving up debt while the rich get tax cuts

Echo opinion letter published in TribLive.com 

Trump has ruined our country: Is anyone else besides myself sick of the self serving criminal running our country, who I did not vote for❓

Trump is ruining our country.🤥 He started a war that he stated would only last two weeks.  He is putting our country in so much debt that we will never get out of it.

How is that 💲4-plus gallon of gasoline working out for you❓

Please vote Democrat in November. Then the Democrats can attain a majority of the House and Senate and vote to impeach Trump, and he can be removed from office. Then he would have no immunity and may be put in prison for his continuing unlawfulness toward America, where I believe he always belonged. 

Then, American will be great again. Come on, people — take our country back. America belongs to us, not to the criminal Trump.

From Rose M. Guerra in West Newton Pennsylvania

Post Script note to Senator Susan Collins, Republican from Maine:

While your constituents are paying over 💲4 a gallon for gasoline, you voted to give yourself and your rich multimillionaire friends tax cuts. Maine voters want you to move on.  Vote Blue❗ #TroyJackson

Donald Trump and his family's illegal insider trading

Echo letter to the editor published Scranton, Pennsylvania, The Times-Tribune: 

Ever pushing the boundaries of corruption, Trump’s newest endeavor is offering access to his social media company charging traders and investors ❗💲💵100,000 per month for faster access to his posts on his Truth (FakeNews❗) Social platform.

Trump also touted specific stocks, complimenting companies such as Nvidia and Apple, rallying their share prices. Insider trading is still illegal. Trump’s Media & Technology Group is majority owned by Trump and his family and controls social media. In April, Trump posted, “This Is a Great Time to Buy.” 🙄😒

Since returning to office, Trump and his family and high-ranking members of his cabinet have💲💲 💰benefited personally. 

Trump gave a no-bid contract to a long-time supporter to clean the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a continuing embarrassment. 

It’s not surprising that taxpayers are now funding half the costs of the White House ballroom. Peter Navarro intervened to secure a 💲620 million Pentagon loan tied to Donald Trump, Jr. Trump’s sons stand to benefit from a 💲1.6 billion Kazakhstan mining deal after the Trump administration helped broker the deal.

Jared Kushner sought to raise 💲5 billion for his private equity firm from Saudi Arabia. Blatant corruption on this scale should not be normalized yet where are the Republicans principled and willing to speak out❓

From: Rose Ann (Valleri) Bivinetto,  Palm Desert, California, former Hazleton Pennsylvania resident

Donald Trump and his evil obsession with Hitlerism

Donald Trump’s expansionism is a direct parallel to Adolf Hitler’s playbook. Trump floated the idea of expanding our country by making Canada the 51st state — not to mention his views on Greenland and Venezuela.

Echo opinion letter published in Lancaster Online:

This is exactly how Hitler kicked off World War II when he attempted to expand Germany’s territory by invading Poland. Anyone who thinks that these are empty threats by Trump should remember that his gross lack of sound judgment, coupled with the incompetent advisers he appointed, resulted in a senseless war with Iran without congressional approval.

Germany was a total one-party dictatorship under Hitler and Nazism.  

In my view, we now have more in common with Hitler’s dictatorship than we ever have had under any other U.S. president in my lifetime. Trump loves dictators and I believe that he would love to be a dictator. 

Trump hates and frequently attacks freedom of speech and the press and is doing everything possible to control our elections. That includes his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attempt to overthrow the free and fair election that he lost.

Trump essentially imposes (illegal❗) taxes on Americans through his tariffs, again without congressional approval. These were all characteristics of the Hitler regime, and most Republicans in Congress refuse to intervene.

To protect our democracy, it is absolutely essential that we vote Trump’s Republican cult loyalists out of office in the midterm elections.

From George Bliss in West Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania

Donald Trump is pointing wasted ammunition in the wrong direction. Like how about at North Korea, for example?

Echo letter to the editor: Trump, the world’s tough guy Published in TribLive #TribuneReview. 

Since January 20, 2025, Donald Trump has threatened a military takeover of Greenland, referred to Canada as the 51st state, bombed alleged drug boats, without evidence, in the Pacific and Caribbean, invaded Venezuela and arrested its president, and placed an economic stranglehold on Cuba, hoping to collapse its government and pave the way for a Trump takeover.

In February 2026, Trump initiated a war of his own choice on Iran for the purpose of causing the overthrow of its government and obliterating its offensive nuclear capacity. Six months later, the Trump/Iran war continues and has spread to other nations in the Middle East.

If the incompetent Donald Trump really wants to burnish his reputation as the world’s tough guy, he might want to consider bombing North Korea, a country with missiles and actual nuclear weapons that are now or soon will be capable of reaching Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast. The exchange of love letters with Kim Jong Un has thus far proven ineffective. I wonder if Trump will again campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize❓

From Philip S. Kift in Ligonier, Pennsylvania

Donald Trump is completely incompetent but Senator Susan Collins will not challenge him

An echo opinion letter published in The Times Tribune in Scranton Pennsylvania

Editor: A recent study by the Pew Research Center was published this month regarding our American country’s image in the world. Over 42,000 adults in 36 countries were asked to measure the United States and China results are staggering.  in the following categories: favorability, confidence in the country’s leader, reliability and respect for freedom.

seResults are staggering❗. Twenty-five of the 36 countries had more people favoring China over the United States in these categories. The sad thing is that I’m not really surprised. Donald Trump’s actions and behavior have made this country the laughingstock of the free world.

Most of us would never act like Donald Trump does to our friends and neighbors. Most of us still believe in right versus wrong, telling the truth, respecting people who are different from us and helping someone in need.

My hope is that, through the actions of most Americans, we can show the world that Donald Trump in no way represents who we are. 

My hope is also that through a resounding message at the polls in November, we send a loud message for the world to hear.

From Gary Williams, in Shavertown in Pennsylvania

P.S. Maine Senator Susan Collins knows Donald Trump is an idiot. She was mentored by the family of George Herbert Walker Bush.

What happened to her?  In my opinion, Senator Collins has become corrupted by power and greed.

Donald Trump and incompetent RFKjr are enabling anti-vax propaganda and now preventable measles is spreading

Echo reported published in The New York Times by Teddy Ronsenbluth:

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane

More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000, through 2024 combined.

A patient with measles symptoms was assessed in South Carolina, where an outbreak sickened nearly 1,000 people in 2025 and 2026.

Frankly, the opening paragraph in this New York Times article should set your brain on fire.🔥💢

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.

The United States has now recorded more cases of measles in 2026 than in any other year since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, a grim sign that the country may be headed toward a new era in which the disease regularly sickens thousands every year.
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that there have been 2,318 confirmed cases of measles so far this year.

In fact, the case count toppled the record set last year, when measles infected more than 2,200 Americans and killed two unvaccinated children. More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.

Reversing course on measles would require a nationwide push to improve vaccination rates, a prospect that experts said seemed unlikely under the leadership of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Instead, the incompetent RFKjr halted funding for vaccine hesitancy research, downplayed the risks of measles and spearheaded a hunt for evidence that vaccines are unsafe.

In November, (right around election time❗) a panel of international experts will meet to determine whether the United States has lost its elimination status, which has long been viewed as one of the country’s crowning public health achievements.

“This is just going to keep happening,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. “It’s going to mean living in a perpetual state of vulnerability and risk until we get vaccination levels up.”

Many of the cases reported this year were tied to a large outbreak in South Carolina that took root last October in a close-knit, evangelical Slavic community and quickly became the largest outbreak in the United States since 2000. The outbreak, which ultimately sickened nearly 1,000 people, was declared over by state health officials in April.

Still, the virus is far from contained. Utah is fighting an outbreak that began along its border with Arizona last summer and has led to more than 700 cases, spread across every jurisdiction in the state. Virginia health officials have reported more than 170 cases from an outbreak that began in mid-May. Pennsylvania is grappling with an outbreak that has sickened more than 100 people this year.

In total, the C.D.C. has reported 35 new measles outbreaks this year. A vast majority of cases have been in people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccine status was unknown.

The string of outbreaks is no surprise to public health experts, who have watched vaccination rates tick down in recent years. Nationally, the measles vaccination rate fell during the Covid-19 pandemic and has not rebounded to the 95 percent required to stem the spread of the measles virus in a community. While the latest national data shows that about 93 percent of kindergartners have received the measles, mumps and rubella shot, that protection is uneven: Some communities have vaccination rates approaching 100 percent, while others have rates below 80 percent.

Measles, one of the most contagious diseases, is exceptionally good at exploiting those pockets with weak immunity.

“It’s going to find people who aren’t immune,” said Dr. David Kimberlin, a pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “It’s like a heat-seeking missile.”

Children have borne the brunt of the infections, making up more than 70 percent of confirmed cases. More than 80 children and adolescents have been hospitalized this year for complications like pneumonia, which leaves patients gasping for air, and brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities. (There are no treatments for measles, though researchers are trying to develop them.)

While many of the children who became ill were vulnerable to the virus because their parents opted them out of the measles vaccine, local health departments have also reported several cases in babies too young for the shot and people with health conditions that make them ineligible for the vaccine.

The outbreaks have taken a steep economic toll, as state and local public health departments strained to track down everyone exposed to the virus, start vaccination campaigns and analyze tests. Researchers have estimated that in 2025, each measles case cost the United States more than $100,000, when factoring in health care spending and the days of missed work for sick people or caretakers.

Of course, the United States is not the only country grappling with a measles resurgence. Canada, which lost its elimination status last year, has reported more than a thousand cases this year. Health officials in Bangladesh confirmed more than 8,000 infections since March.

Still, several experts said the Trump administration’s response — which has not included any national push to increase vaccination rates — has done the United States no favors.

Courtney Spencer, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said the department has mounted an “aggressive outbreak response,” and pointed to the $8.5 million it has given states to help contain outbreaks and the technical assistance that the C.D.C. has provided to those areas.

She added that the department has said, referring to the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella, that “M.M.R. vaccination remains the best protection against measles.”

Dr. Jonathan Temte, a former chairman of the C.D.C.’s vaccine advisory committee, said: “We have seen virtually no national messaging. We’ve seen no ad campaigns.” He added, “I think that really tells us something about their priorities.”

Donald Trump and maga cult followers mush face reality: Watching Trump's dangerous detachment from reality

Echo opinion letter published in TribLive on line:

Evidence points out how Trump is detached from reality❓

As one witnesses Donald John Trump’s actions going from outrageous to complete detachment from reality, I wonder when his supporters will ever face the fact this man is beyond satisfying. I’m thankful a few federal judges are stopping or at least slowing some of the stupidity he has instigated.

One last thing: As I recall, he gutted some of the National Park System funding, although the parks have made more money annually than what was allocated. Recently, while researching a park visit, I found the administration imposed new fees.

Visitors from foreign countries must pay a 💲100 entry fee per person, plus ➕ ❗ 😡have a national park pass (💲15 to 💲35 per car for seven days), at 11 of the most popular national parks. 

Also, upon entry, if a foreigner is in the car all occupants must show proof of citizenship.

This is just one example of the loss of our liberty. Where does the blatant stupidity end? There is so much more to recognize here, but you all know the failures. Wake up,⏰ America❗ 

We can stop this on Nov. 3. Vote Blue❗

From Leonard Mucci in Derry Township, Pennsylvania

Donald Trump will destroy the American constitution for the purpose of preventing voters from taking back our democracy

Americans must rise up to protect our democracy against Trumpzism

Echo opinion letter:  Philadelphia Inquirer editorial about Donald Trump’s losses in the courts and elsewhere correctly described as historic the mounting damage caused by his cult of corruption, incompetence, and cruelty. In fact, The Inquirer also pointed out that Trump is never more dangerous than when he is losing. That said, I don’t think you went far enough by calling on readers to hold Trump and his GOP enablers accountable by voting in the midterms. What makes you think Trump will accept the November results if he is not completely successful in suppressing the vote? Here’s a more effective action plan: Impeach Trump for treason and remove him from office before he subverts the next election. Treason is specifically defined among the constitutional grounds for impeachment, and treason is what Trump has committed repeatedly.

Donald Trump instigated an attack on Congress on January 6, 2021, and indiscriminately pardoned hundreds of the criminal attackers. 

More recently Donald Trump even pardoned the former criminal president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted by a jury of conspiring to smuggle hundreds of tons of cocaine into our country. These acts — giving aid comfort to the enemies of the United States — meet the definition of treason. Notably, Trump has ordered the summary execution of hundreds of noncombatants suspected of lesser crimes.

Americans must follow the Constitution and hold the wrongdoer-in-chief accountable, so we will be able to vote — and have our votes count.

From Peter Pinnola, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

Americans must vote to remove maga cult insanity from government- Impeach Trump now and VOTE BLUE

Echo opinion letter published in Lancaster OnLine: 

Trump is a chronic liar and we must vote blue in November.

Liar, liar. 🤥❗After watching Donald Trump's recent Sunday disaster interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, I believe that millions of people saw just what an unhinged liar Trump is, and always has been❗

I’m sure that Trump's MAGA cult supporters will not care how much Trump is lacking in morals and values. Most likely, they will say that I have Trump Derangement Syndrome when the real truth is that members of MAGA have Democratic Derangement Syndrome.

Nevertheless, I am an independent voter who can clearly see a demented lying fool❗ 🤡In my view, Trump is not fit for any office. He falls asleep at meetings and events, and he lies, 🤥cheats and has no respect for anyone but himself. He has alienated our allies and made the United States a laughingstock. He has broken many laws and couldn’t care less about our Constitution. He frees convicted criminals who are his allies, and he wants to reward those people with our tax dollars. He has no respect for the law.

November's midterm elections are coming, and we will get a chance to change this daily chaos. The Democrats have their flaws. However, they are not insane and can make things better than they are now, without all the craziness and chaos❗ Trump and his MAGA cult criticized President Joe Biden’s economy daily, and they have now created one that’s much worse. They seemingly have no problem making the rich richer and the poor poorer. This needs to change. Please vote blue in November, or I believe you may wind up being ruled by a completely autocratic government!

From Denny Borrell in Lebanon, Pennsylvania

#ImpeachTrumpNOW

Question to Donald Trump and maga cult Republicans? Has Iran surrendered yet?

In response to the letter “Trump ridding the world of Iranian nuclear threat” (May 7, TribLive), I object to the letter writer because I have a thought or two.

First, didn’t Donald Trump announce last June that military strikes had “obliterated” any Iranian nuclear threat❓ If true, why strike again, this time after their leaders and civilians❓ Obliterate defined is to “destroy completely.” I can’t imagine that Trump would ever lie to the American people, can you❓🤥😒I recall him promising no more foreign wars on the campaign trail.

Secondly, it would appear that Iran has handed Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth (aka "Whiskey Pete") more problems than their genius strategy expected. Military experts warned them both of the response an attack would create. But, they ignored it and are now scrambling to win something that looks on the surface as an unlikely outcome. If the war is “won,” as Trump claims, then why is the Strait of Hormuz still closed, negotiation necessary and deals needed to be made? Thirteen service members have been killed and hundreds more wounded, and Iran is no closer to bowing to those two than the day of the first strikes. So much for a four- to six-week “military excursion.” Empty threats and boasts of victory are hollow words of weakness.

Finally, should Trump decide to “make Iran glow” - a major war crime, as he threatened, he will not only continue his path as being the worst president in modern history, he will be tried as a war criminal too. Is this entire mess what the letter writer is thanking God for❓ (Maine Writer- "War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal."- Pope Leo XIV)

Has Iran surrendered yet❓

From Howard Cade in Franklin, Pennsylvania

Donald Trump and maga Republican enablers desecrating America's heritage: Trump was not elected to be a dictator!

This message will probably be a surprise to Donald Trump, but, just so he knows, no one hired him to be a despot decorator in chief. 

Echo opinion letter published in the Reading Eagle in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump is a convicted felon guilty of 34 felony counts❗

Trump's takeover of that position has had disastrous results: examples include paving the iconic Rose Garden to hold umbrella tables, gilding the Oval Office to imitate a Russian palace, tearing down the East Wing of the White House to add a billion-dollar Louis XIV ballroom, painting the once-elegant Reflecting Pool a swimming pool blue so it will no longer reflect and now wanting to put a coat of white paint on the historic, granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building. (Painting stone now means painting it forever.) We don’t yet know what he intends to accomplish in the Kennedy Center, but past performance indicates it will likely be supremely garish and outrageously costly.

After stealing health care and feeding programs from Americans and people around the world, he’s spending billions of taxpayer 💲dollars on a war of choice and hideous vanity projects.

Remaking our nation’s capital into his own image will remind future generations of what happens when unchecked narcissism reigns, truly a gut-wrenching prospect.

From Fred Opalinski in Reading Pennsylvania

Donald Trump attracts violent behavior because he preaches violence in incoherent rants

A small sample of Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric:

Echo opinion letter published in TribLive in Pennsylvania

    • 2016 rally: “Knock the crap out of” protesters; “I will pay for the legal fees.” 
    • 2020 Oval Office: He allegedly asked officials in his administration about shooting protesters in the legs.
    • 2021 Select Committee testimony: He stated that when informed that insurrectionists of the Capitol Building wanted to hang Vice President, Mike Pence, his reply was that maybe he deserves it.
    • 2023 on Truth Social: He stated Gen. Mark Milley deserves “DEATH” for perceived disloyalty.
    • 2023: He made fun of the vicious hammer attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband.
    • 2024 rally: Liz Cheney should face “a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.”
    • 2024 speech: He stated political opponents are “enemies from within,” worse than foreign threats.
    • 2025: He stated Sen. Mark Kelly and five other veterans’ “seditious behavior” is punishable by death because they reiterated what the Uniform Code of Military Justice states regarding unlawful orders.

• Following the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller in March 2026, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead

Yet he wants Jimmy Kimmel fired and James Comey in prison (because Comey took a picture of a seashell formation on a beach, aka the "seashell indictment"). 

Do you think he and Melania even understand the meaning of the word hypocrite? Doubtful. 😒

All this from the self-declared stable genius who stated the “Jesus-like” image he posted of himself was actually him being a doctor. Haven’t you wondered why he’s had to take so many cognitive tests❓

From Jack Sillaman in Latrobe, Pennsylvania