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/

A psychiatrist's point of view about Donald Trump and his crazy "fake news" media ban

Donald Trump’s explanation for barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House is telling. He complains that the news media ​is writing “purposely negative stories,” which he equates with “fake news.” Bad news is “fake news.”❓

He is incapable of tolerating reality, especially when it reflects poorly on him. Consider that the most powerful person on the planet is so mentally compromised that the problem he wishes to solve is the media rather than the news itself. This is a form of insanity.

Many of Donald Trump’s maga cult supporters, including self-serving Republican politicians, have been in a state of denial regarding his unfitness to serve.

Over time, his enablers will have to carry the burden of their complicity in the debacle that is Donald Trump.

From Larry S. Sandberg M.D., in New York
New York
The writer is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Donald Trump using even more diversionary political shenanigans to prevent media from reporting on failed administration policies

It's not the press that poses a threat; it's Trump

Unfortunately, the freedom of the press is the latest hide and seek tactic to prevent the free press from reporting "real news". 

Echo opinion letter published in TheCAPTimes, in Wisconsin.

Dear Editor: Donald Trump recently (illegally) banned several credible TV news stations from covering the White House. He didn't like the coverage reported about him by CNN, in Politico and on MSNowNews.  This story continues to evolve....

The hypocrisy of Trump's claim is glaring. He states: “The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish. It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America. It is corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control. It is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, NOW!”

There is some truth to that statement, except for the subject. It’s not FAKE NEWS that has grown like Cancer; it’s the Trump administration itself. They’re the ones who are “corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control.” 

In the corrupt Trump administration, they are the ones who are “a threat to our National Security and” they are the ones who “must be stopped, NOW!” #ImpeachTrumpNOW

From: Jeff Virchow in Prairie de Sac Wisconsin

Donald Trump is unfit to serve any longer. Maga Republicans have a responsibility to remove DJT from office STAT!

It’s time to remove Donald J. Trump because he is a sick old man.

DJT is not well. For his health and the health of our nation, the time has come to invoke the 25th Amendment. DJT is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
Published the Berkshire Edge news September 12, 2026.

To the editor:  The “president” of the United States is crazy. 

His posts on both his personal and the official X/ accounts are psychotic and delusional. 

While "We the People" are struggling to feed our families and pay our bills, Donald J. Trump is using AI to exhibit himself as George Washington and the Green Lantern. 

Trump poses as a dark hero threatening that an unidentified “THEY” will “NEVER SLEEP AGAIN.” Overnight, he confessed to his stock trading and bragged that his raking in 💲2 billion dollars is good for the country. He has no grasp of what is occurring in Iran. He dismisses any need to discuss nuclear weapons because he claims to have already destroyed them, and he gleefully threatens to bomb Kharg Island, Iran’s crude oil depot.

Among those he challenges is Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and he alludes to Canada becoming a U.S. state. He gloats about the U.S. owning the moon and the importance of taking over the coming elections so that the “Dumocrats” won’t ruin the country. Like a petulant five-year-old, he uses silly names and words to belittle people who stand up to or disagree with him.

DJT’s Supreme Court has shielded him from being held accountable for crimes he commits during his term in office. The Republican majority in Congress is not shielded. Their failure to reign in the Trump term of terror is criminal; they have abrogated their oaths of office to serve as a check and balance in our tripartite form of government by failing to review and approve presidential actions. They are paying the bills for the destruction of our national monuments and buildings and their replacement with gaudy memorials to the worst elected president in history. They are paying the bills for a war that they, as the Constitution requires, never voted for. They are committing a constitutional crime by spending our tax dollars without congressional approval. Craven, cowardly Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, for the second time, has dismissed Congress to avoid taking up a bill, the discussion of which would embarrass them. 

All of DJT’s actions divert the nation’s attention from him being held accountable as an adjudicated rapist and felon, as demonstrated in the unredacted and still unpublished millions of pages of the Epstein papers.

While DJT raves on the internet in the middle of the night, while people starve and die because SNAP and Medicaid have been raided to pay for an illegal war, while the people’s property is razed and our land is plundered for monuments to a madman, our country has lost its standing as the leader of the free world. We all know it, either because we believe what we see or because we know instinctively that our lives are so much worse—and we don’t want to admit that we made this happen with our votes. (Whether or not DJT actually won is a subject for another time.)

DJT is not well. For his health and the health of our nation, the time has come to invoke the 25th Amendment. DJT is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” We, the People, must contact our elected members of Congress* and demand that they immediately call on the Cabinet to act as they are required to under their oaths of office.

From Louise Yohalem in Mill River (Northampton Massachusetts)

*P.S. from Maine Writer:  But Republican Senator Susan Collins does nothing❗

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 have lost their "maga" narrative so they blame the failure on the free press

Echo opinion letter published in the South Florida Sun Sentinel news:

Obviously, Donald Trump wants complete control of everything that we see and hear. He and his right wing extremist maga cult have lost control of their "promises made, promises kept" agenda. So, rather than deal with truth, they lie and blame their failures on select media.

In an attempt to quash unfavorable coverage, he banned “fake news” CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House.

“I don’t want them in my office. I don’t want them here,” Trump said.

Apparently, even Fox (Fake❗) News is not loyal enough to him these days, because they have been reporting on the monthly job losses and high gasoline prices.

Make no mistake: We no longer have a free press when journalists are banned if a president no longer allows three major news organizations to stand in front of him and ask questions. Press access is not a privilege — it’s a right.

The only reason Americans know about the corruption happening in the White House is because of the journalists covering it. Over the past year and a half, news outlets have been sued, shut out, berated and harassed. It seems obvious that under the Trump regime, our government is not being transparent or honest, and controlling the media is what dictators always do.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation summed it up perfectly, saying: “It’s difficult to imagine a more blatant violation of the First Amendment than Trump banning news outlets from the People’s House for criticizing the government. It’s also hard to imagine a dumber move.

“The president has been retaliating against the press for years, but it hasn’t helped him. The press keeps exposing his corruption and his failures. These outrageous attacks only demonstrate how scared he is of an informed public.”

From Rosemary Blumberg, in Plantation, Florida