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Like it or not, Trumpis America’s president
Love it or hate it, the American people have spoken and put the one many around here regard as a villain back in the White House. But that 77 million people voted for Donald Trump doesn’t make us either bad or stupid people. We just see the world, and Donald Trump, differently than you.
I know that seeing the title “President Trump” in print again makes the blood of many around here boil, but you’re wrong to hate like this. Indeed, you would be wrong even if he was much worse than you think he is. God calls us to love our neighbors (which is really everyone we know) as ourselves.
President Trump won a second chance to make his mark on American history. If it turns into a disaster, then the Democrats will be able to win next time. That’s just how it works in our democracy.
Christopher AndrusDublin
Let’s not overpraisethe rich for crumbs
When I go to a program at Lesher Center for the Arts, someone very much like myself comes on stage and immediately thanks Chevron for supporting whatever event I’ve attended. Then I go home, turn on the TV to watch the “PBS NewsHour,” and I see it thanking a long list of rich people and their foundations.
All the while I’m thinking: With one hand most of those companies, foundations and rich people have generated supernormal profits by plundering society, and with the other they dole out a few crumbs to good causes like Lesher programs and the “PBS NewsHour.”
Really, why the heck should we lavish thanks on them for what they owe us?
Jim WolpmanWalnut Creek
Back to the bad olddays without vaccines
Re: “Halting foreign aid hurts U.S. as well as world” (Page A6, Jan. 29).
Are we going back to the 1930s and 40s — before the polio and measles vaccines — when millions died of these diseases and others?
Kansas City, Kan., is presently fighting one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history.
A billionaire (Elon Musk) tells a billionaire (Donald Trump) to stop all foreign aid, and diseases that affect the poorest of us now will go unchecked.
Get your masks out, folks.
Bill NicholsonMartinez
Better character neededfor public megaphone
Just think if you had the ability to influence the stock market with the loudest megaphone in the world.
You could threaten companies and institutions with erratic behavior, policies and claims causing the markets to crash. Then at some point when the dip in prices has met some acceptable level you just reverse your threat and the market rebounds spectacularly making you and a favored few, who were invested, billions.
Whoever has that megaphone needs to be a person of impeccable character, honesty and transparency, don’t you think?
Zoe SimonsConcord
Chaotic Week 2highlights incompetence
President Trump’s incompetence was on full display this past week. His ill-conceived, nonsensical federal funding freeze, which endangered the health and welfare of millions of Americans, had to be rescinded days after its inception. Those who voted for a chaos president got their wish.
Trump also blamed the tragic and fatal American Airlines jet collision with a military helicopter on DEI hiring practices.
Oh, yeah — only Week Two.
Ken WongWalnut Creek