Dear Editor,

I recently read a letter from a Trump supporter who had a few things confused. Firstly, she said Americans had been “playing the fool” by the Associated Press. She was confused about the meaning of the idiom she used. “Playing the fool” is not something that is done to a person, it is an act that one person puts on for another. Secondly, she was confused about who had been played for fools (which is what I think she may have thought the idiom meant). Those who voted for Donald Trump because of his promise to reduce inflation were totally played for fools. But, as soon as he won the election in an interview on TV, he publicly stated that it was almost impossible to get prices down once they had climbed up. Since his inauguration, none of his executive orders have had anything to do with reducing inflation. Quite the contrary, he has no guarantee that prices will go up more by imposing tariffs which always end up being paid by the consumer.

I do believe Trump is even scarier than the aforementioned letter-writer who accused the press of trying to make Trump look. He tried to change the constitution with an executive order. He has talked about taking over Greenland, the Panama Canal (possibly by force), and now the Gaza Strip. He addressed the American people on TV, not to comfort the families of the Washington airplane tragedy, but to blame DEI for it. He and his henchman Musk have shut down USAID, the humanitarian program that feeds starving children, provides life-saving medications, and keeps deadly deceased like Ebola in Africa in check and prevents worldwide epidemics. Trump’s making the US appear as an inhumane greedy nation to the rest of the world is horrifying.

MARILYN KETTLER,

Presque Isle