The man who would be king

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office. Thankfully he did not cower and take the lies and humiliation; he courageously and proudly defended himself and his country from the attacks by Trump, Putin and Vance.

Earlier, Trump had to be interrupted and corrected, when telling lies, by French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Again, I was embarrassed and humiliated for the United States of America.

Since his inauguration, Trump has done irreparable damage to our world standing and our national security. He has attacked Canada and Mexico with words and lies and tariffs. He has proposed buying Greenland and attempting to take control of the Panama Canal. He has disparaged NATO and all of Europe and basically thrown them under the bus, all while cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and heaping praise on him.

These actions are all harmful to all democracies around the world and helpful to all autocracies around the world. Trump and Elon Musk coudld be responsible for an increasing number of deaths around the world due to their thoughtless and reckless dismantling of USAID, not to mention the total chaos in the entire U.S. government.

Donald Trump does not have your best interests at heart, but only his personal dream of being a dictator or king. As he said last month, “long live the king!”

Please pay attention!

James Peterson, Kane

Democrats show their colors

Like most Americans , I wanted to hear what our president would have to offer when speaking to Congress and most senior government officials, so I tuned in the night of March 4.

What I heard didn’t surprise me — direct, common sense and to the point on a wide range of issues concerning and affecting virtually all of us.

As expected, especially these days, there was immediate “pushback” from the left. What was not expected, was the severity and “over-the-top” nonsense of the response.

It’s one thing to express your disapproval by not standing, applauding and cheering our new president, and quite another to be foolishly — make that stupidly — disdainful of people who have suffered great loss and tragedy. The examples are many, as we saw, and the harm, to put it mildly, was caused by the previous administration’s ridiculous policies. Policies of the left.

How can the Democratic Party claim to love Americans when clearly, they don’t like Americans?

The party has got to do a leadership purge to remain relevant. Farleft progressivism is too close to socialist elitism to appeal to mainstream voters.

Moderate soon, or face the prospect of continually losing elections.

Larry Lamping, Kane

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