To the editor: To the MAGA Republicans who witnessed the shameful treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by President Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Friday, do you are feeling higher about Trump and his imaginative and prescient for America?
Russian President Vladimir Putin certainly is celebrating and can be extra aggressive towards European democracies. I’m extra ashamed of my nation than I’ve ever been in my 70 years of being an American.
Trump and his administration have destroyed any belief and respect we had left with different democracies. They’re additionally emboldening dictators. The USA will now be seen as cowards who kowtow to oligarchs and strongmen.
People, now could be the time to talk out. Write letters to your native newspapers. Write to your members of Congress. Write to the president. Silence can’t be golden when it’ll solely result in extra darkish days and disgrace for the USA.
Nelson Sagisi, Santa Maria
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To the editor: My father parachuted into Normandy with the Military’s 82nd Airborne Division on June 5, 1944. He fought his approach by hedgerows to Paris. Later he survived the Battle of the Bulge. He was 19 years previous.
What was he preventing for? To destroy the Nazis. To finish fascism. To protect the American lifestyle and the values we maintain pricey.
That is what Ukraine is preventing for. To finish a Russian invasion. To protect democracy of their homeland and the values they maintain most pricey.
After the Trump-Vance blow-up with Zelensky, I’m pressured to ask: Is that this what America has grow to be, a nation that betrays associates and allies?
Religion C’Dealva, Laguna Niguel
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To the editor: In jail and gang parlance, being “disrespectful” is among the most typical causes for being crushed or killed.
Within the White Home Oval Workplace on Friday, our gangster bully president accused the president of Ukraine of being disrespectful towards the USA and unworthy of our help. He then washed his palms of any additional dialogue with this beleaguered patriot.
It was probably the most disgraceful and disgusting instance of public bullying by any world chief that I’ve ever seen or heard about.
Trump voters, you’re reaping what you sowed with adolescent hero worship and single-minded concern about your individual consolation and financial nicely being. You gave us a “chief” with the habits, opinions and actions of a gang chief or chief of an ignorant mob.
Thanks for the following 4 years. I hope you take pleasure in it.
Robert Von Bargen, Santa Monica
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To the editor: If Zelensky thinks he can come to our nation, come into the White Home and complain about something after the billions we’ve given his nation, he must be proven the door. I’m glad to see that Trump and Vance have the personalities essential to face off with Zelensky.
How somebody like Zelensky, a former comic and entertainer, grew to become Ukraine’s president is as astonishing as how somebody like Trump was elected president of the U.S. twice. So in a approach, the 2 guys are minimize from comparable material, the one distinction being that Zelensky is in no place to barter phrases to anybody, particularly to the hand that feeds him.
I feel the assembly went fairly nicely, and I’m glad it was caught on digicam. Zelensky actually wants to observe himself, as he isn’t coping with subtle “statesmen” who can be nice and well mannered.
Moreover, I’m on no account stunned that they wish to proceed negotiating. That’s what individuals do once they’ve been caught within the flawed and are begging for mercy.
Arthur Saginian, Santa Clarita
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To the editor: What ever occurred to Ronald Reagan’s perception that America is the “shining metropolis upon the hill”?
After watching two bullies within the Oval Workplace beat up on the little man as a way to take his minerals, and listening to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and others pile on in a feeding frenzy of assist for Trump, I’m extra satisfied than ever that America is rotting from the within out.
When are we going to get up?
Gary Barton, Seal Seaside
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To the editor: As an American viewing Zelensky’s assembly with Trump, I used to be personally embarrassed by the chaotic lack of decorum throughout the Oval Workplace.
I can not perceive why our high elected officers can not comport themselves in a fashion that displays their stature as leaders of the free world and willingness to hearken to completely different viewpoints.
Mark Balys, Riverside
