Dems’ State of the Union show: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Democrats’ refusal to facet with Americans over unlawful immigrants at the State of the Union.
Democrats’ refusal to stand at the State of the Union was disgraceful (“Don put Dems in a clap trap,” Feb. 26).
I at all times knew they hated President Trump; now I do know they hate America. The ones who did attend would have been higher off staying home. Their true colours had been uncovered.
I simply hope each reasonable Democrat and unbiased thinks twice earlier than voting for a Democrat.
Donald Riccio
Manchester, Conn.
Trump’s mistake was not mentioning names in the Democrats would have stood for: Karl Marx, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeni, Xi Jinping, Nicolás Maduro and Kim Jong-un.
He might have additionally talked about the males who steer the boats stuffed with heroin, cocaine and fentanyl.
Myron Hecker
Pearl River
Every one of us ought to know these speeches are embellished to go well with the speaker. While Trump has completed loads, he nonetheless embellished.
Then, I watched the response from Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger — who claimed repeatedly that Trump has completed nothing for the American people however has merely enriched himself.
Give me a break — what politician, together with Spanberger, has not enriched him- or herself?
Lou Bivona
Belleville, NJ
Trump lured the Democrats in, they usually bit (as they at all times do). The conduct of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, to call simply two, was as abhorrent as you will get.
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Hopefully, they are going to be terminated subsequent time round when the American people notice they’re nothing however con artists who’d relatively pander to unlawful immigrants than serve the public.
Betsy Flor
Putnam Valley
When Trump requested about unlawful immigration during his State of the Union speech, congressional Democrats’ refusal to facet with Americans earlier than unlawful immigrants was an simple knife to the very coronary heart of America.
These elected officers have annihilated the trust that so many Americans have positioned in them.
James McCaffrey
Yonkers
The left didn’t stand at patriotic moments and appeared small with their 18% approval score. The solely exception was cheap Sen. John Fetterman, who stood when Republicans did.
In summation: If Democrats regain energy, count on the borders to reopen and count on more trillions in socialist spending that may trigger large inflation.
J.R. Cummings
Manhattan
The Issue: Criticism of the USA males’s hockey staff after their post-win call and go to with President Trump.
President Trump’s locker-room wisecrack supplied a ready-made excuse for Dems to clutch their pearls and signal outrage (“Stick it, wokesters!” Kirsten Fleming, Feb. 27).
Now critics have turned their sights on the US males’s hockey staff, scolding them as if they had been accomplices in a federal offense.
To be clear, the ladies’s staff is free to say no Trump’s invitation. In at this time’s climate, resisting the ritual has grow to be its own ritual. The bigger loss is the assumption that each shared national second have to be filtered by way of partisan grievance.
Scott Thompson
Bloomington, Ind.
By all accounts, Team USA’s males’s hockey staff represented our nation with class and humility each on and off the ice. Now they’re being referred to as political pawns and cultural failures for having fun with their accomplishment.
It’s unhappy the elitist left has a lot hatred for America that they appear with vitriol upon even a as soon as in-a-generation accomplishment.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
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