President Trump’s polling hunch: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: President Trump’s falling approval scores as he nears the 100-day mark of his second time period.
It took former President Joe Biden and his administration 4 years to create the issues we’re going through right now (“Trump’s slide down the polls,” April 26).
Yet the American people anticipated President Trump to right every little thing on Day 1 or within his first 100 days in workplace; they’ll’t be that naive.
Robert Neglia
The Bronx
After 4 dismal years with Joe Biden, we anticipated a euphoric high with President Trump. But we didn’t get that high; as a substitute, we bought a gloomy forecast with no answer in sight.
Unfortunately, Trump just about flew off the deal with, inflicting chaos principally by means of his tariff will increase.
He had a great alternative to get us from the doldrums of Biden’s time period, however didn’t take it.
Ron Zajicek
Cortlandt
The media is taking part in up the truth that, in varied polls, Trump has the bottom approval score for his first 100 days of any president in a long time. Some pundits are downproper giddy over it.
I’m watching this media circus, questioning if these people have ever heard the sports activities axiom, “It’s not how you start, but how you finish.”
Trump has completed one of the best comebacks in American business and political historical past. Does anybody actually assume that dancing on his grave now’s going to age effectively?
Eugene Dunn
Medford
A traditional president wouldn’t harbor an excessive obsession in opposition to ever admitting error.
It is and all the time will probably be absurd for Trump, on April 2, 2025, to have signed an government order declaring a national emergency based mostly on his subjective perception that commerce practices and our deficits represent a menace.
Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of finance at Trump’s alma mater, put it effectively: This is the “biggest policy mistake in 95 years.”
Lou Horwitz
St. Louis, Mo.
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Although an avid supporter of President Trump, I’m bemused by some of his actions.
Instead of concentrating on reducing inflation and fixing the tariff dilemma, he’s blathering on about Greenland and Canada and appears to be appeasing Vladimir Putin and Iran. Trump will lose help if he doesn’t act more just like the pre-election model of himself.
Anthony Bruno
Smithtown
The Issue: The Post editorial criticizing New York Democrats’ help for assisted-suicide legalization.
The slippery-slope argument prevents society from bettering upon the human situation (“Just Say ‘No’ To Assisted Suicide,” Editorial, April 25).
Instead of assuaging human affected by its most deserving recipients, we abandon all the concern based mostly on the concern of its corruption. Knowledge, talent, and compassion ought to permit us to create legal guidelines that shield us from the slippery slope.
Jessy Friedman
Marlboro, NJ
Your editorial on medical support in dying, arguing that there will probably be a slippery slope, is mistaken.
In this nation, in contrast to others, it’s troublesome to get legal guidelines enacted that authorize a dying affected person to take prescribed drugs. Expansion of medical support in dying is feasible, of course, solely by laws or courtroom choices, each of that are extremely unlikely to occur.
Allowing nurse practitioners to be prescribers isn’t a slippery slope, neither is lowering the ready period. There are no ready intervals for sufferers who stop or by no means begin life-sustaining therapies.
Medical support in dying has confirmed to be a secure, moral, and infrequently used option that advantages sufferers; horrible struggling ends, and a peaceable death outcomes.
David Leven
Executive Director
End of Life Choices NY
Pelham
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