These protests are a patriotic \u2018no\u2019 to Trumpism<\/p>\n
Flushing: After seeing the No Kings protests on Oct. 18, I couldn\u2019t help but think of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt\u2019s crazed comment after Fox News interviewed Zohran Mamdani: \u201cThis interview proved that the Democrat Party\u2019s main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals.\u201d It\u2019s a statement as blatantly false as it is desperate.<\/p>\n
As a New Yorker, my heart swelled as I watched the country spring into action after 9\/11, joining together and helping each other in a true display of what Americans are really about. People from virtually every state came running to the heart of New York City, working soup lines, helping cleanup efforts and doing everything they could to patch up the city\u2019s wounded spirit. I\u2019ve never forgotten the kindness, the caring and the selflessness.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve made a grave error in the U.S. Watching the soulless, transaction-obsessed President Trump \u2014 only money registers in his empty soul \u2014 giving sycophantic sellouts Leavitt, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi megaphones for fractured fairytales uttered in hopes of dividing us. Sadly, so many people garner information from social media and unbridled commercial talk programs shown on networks that are somehow allowed to use the word \u201cnews\u201d in their descriptions. Yet, the No Kings protesters prove that our populace is better-informed, more caring and more positive than I\u2019ve seen in years. There is a healthy and human movement afoot where Americans are proving that they won\u2019t accept the lies, hatred and almost unfathomable incompetence of the current administration \u2014 despite the sick, sordid rantings of Leavitt and her mendacity-spouting ilk. Robert Smith<\/p>\n
Too big to bury<\/p>\n
Forest Hills: Seven million people of all ages, sexes and faiths joined together all over the country, with well more than 150,000 in New York City\u2019s five boroughs, and you find it acceptable to place the article about it on page 12 (\u201cNationwide rallies against Don have street party vibe<\/a>,\u201d Oct. 19). We are fighting to avoid a president becoming a king and you bury it on page 12. Shame on you. Lawrence Konstan<\/p>\n Out in force<\/p>\n Ozone Park: Our government leaders don\u2019t care. They are at Mar-a-Lago golfing. These demonstrators aren\u2019t blind-rage-filled miscreants. They are the Americans who care about a reasonable democratic government by the people, for the people and of the people. Trump better get his act together. If he thinks \u201cwho cares?\u201d he\u2019d better think again. Ray Hackinson<\/p>\n At war with his own<\/p>\n Hauppuage, L.I.: With all the \u201cpeace\u201d the orange fascist purports to spread abroad, maybe all the wars he\u2019s conducting at home are the real reason he didn\u2019t win the Nobel Peace Prize: war on science, war on journalism, war on academic freedom, war on women, war on free speech, war on the poor, war on due process, war on the environment, war on the separation of powers. Greg Arnold<\/p>\n Forgotten fanfare<\/p>\n San Francisco: The U.S. Marine Corps celebrated its 250th anniversary on Oct. 18, but there was no military parade (at least not one elevated and\/or attended by President Plump). The U.S. Navy celebrated its 250th anniversary on Oct. 13 (likewise, no Plump, no parade). Back on June 14, when the U.S. Army had its 250th anniversary, a $20-million, highly touted military parade ensued with Plump in attendance and rejoicing. So, what was different? Could it be that June 14, coincidentally, was the rotund one\u2019s birthday? Or maybe that the June 14 parade was such a dismal failure that they decided not to risk a repeated embarrassment? Seems curious. Jimmy Layton<\/p>\n Favors for friends<\/p>\n