Trump’s speech to Boy Scouts was indeed ominous
Re Trump drags Boy Scouts down to his level, Keenan, July 26
U.S. President Donald Trump’s long, rambling and very political speech was delivered to the young, impressionable minds of 30,000 applauding American Boy Scouts assembled at a jamboree.
This speech was indeed ominous. It reminds us how the Hitler jugend was used to stir up nationalistic German sentiments that led to the calamitous Second World War.
The speech also reminds us how violent jihadists recruit young men to their fanatical, bloody cause.
No wonder Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here has become a bestseller following the election of Trump.
Stig Harvor, Toronto
Re Trump battling old boys’ club, Letter, July 26
Reader Craig Dunlop, in alleging media bias against Donald Trump, states, “All anyone knows is what they read from the media.”
On the contrary, the president has made his own bed on many occasions, in speeches, press conferences and his infamous tweets. Aside from covering his words by printing or broadcasting them, no further action by the media has been required.
His own words and actions have convinced many observers
“The president has made his own bed on many occasions, in speeches, press conferences and his infamous tweets.”
TERRY KUSHNIER TORONTO
around the globe that he is a lying, whining, incompetent, intemperate, ignorant bully.
Terry Kushnier, Toronto
I picked up the Toronto Star this morning, as I do every day, and why wasn’t I surprised. It was another day of attacks on the president of the United States.
Be it an article, letter or cartoon, the Star never seems to stop its hell-bent assault on the man democratically elected to occupy the White House (which is an assault on the American electorate) by regurgitating and parroting the unproven fake news and innuendo, spawned by the corrupt U.S. media.
Remembering that Trump is not the president of Canada, I’d like to think that the Star can do better than blindly following some already red-faced, biased, corporate- and foreign-financed U.S. media.
Shahram Shimi, Mississauga