Regarding your editorial, “An urgent wake-up call to study Trump’s health”: Are you serious?
After Joe Biden’s inability to find the stage exit, tripping up boarding stairs, reading instructional footnotes on cue cards, unintelligible mumbling, and so on, no similar health “urgency” from your paper appeared.
This display of prejudice is so obvious, that I am convinced that your entire editorial staff is either on the take or in desperate need of frontal lobotomies.
Mike Corcoran, Deerfield Beach
A clouded lens
I applaud the editorial board’s suggestion of increased health scrutiny of individuals holding the office of president.
I am disappointed that I can’t recall a similar suggestion for the previous president, who apparently suffered from even greater frailty than the current officeholder.
Your tying of the health issue to the Epstein files discussion is interesting, as there seems to be equal opportunity for damage to both sides of the political spectrum.
It would seem that your editorial lens is clouded enough to be obscured from looking at both parties, as it is rare to read criticism of the party the board seems to favor.
Don Henry, Weston
Signs of derangement
You folks on the editorial board crack me up. I just read your editorial regarding President Trump’s health issues. You could substitute Joe Biden’s name throughout the entire piece and be 100% on the money.
During the past five years, I don’t recall reading a single editorial about Biden’s obvious decline in health, mental acuity and inability to serve, yet here we are with an editorial challenging Trump on his health.
You’re so lopsided with your TDS, it’s almost comical.
Wayne Zimmerman, Pembroke Pines
A trash-talking president
At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Trump dismissed Somali immigrants with remarks such as: “I don’t want them in our country. Their country stinks, and we don’t want them in our country.”
He went further, calling U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., “garbage” and claiming Somali communities “do nothing but complain.” (Omar was born in Somalia and emigrated to the U.S. as a child in 1995.)
Let’s be clear. This isn’t leadership, it’s playground name-calling dressed up in a suit.
Trash talk may get applause in a rally tent, but it collapses under the weight of reality. Somali-Americans are not “garbage.” They are neighbors, business owners, nurses, teachers and, yes, elected officials who represent their communities in Congress. That’s more of a civic contribution than any Cabinet rant ever produced.
If helping people rise means occasionally enduring the smell of hypocrisy, so be it. I would rather stand with those who build lives from hardships than with someone who tears down entire communities with a few cheap insults.
The real “stench” here isn’t Somalia — it’s arrogance.
Robert Rhoads, Wilton Manors
A fallen Guardsman
Do the parents of Sarah Beckstrom, the National Guard member who was shot and subsequently died in Washington D.C., not wonder about this: Why was the National Guard in D.C. to begin with?
Barbara Senfeld, Pembroke Pines
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