Make Trump a one-termer, Dems

Staten Island: I just saw Sen. Mitch McConnell’s hypocritical pompous self on the news saying that he hopes at some point the Democrats will accept the results of the election and stop slowing down cabinet confirmations. Wasn’t McConnell the big man saying during President Obama’s administration that he and the rest of the hypocritical Republicans “weren’t going to lift a finger to help President Obama do anything” and that it was your goal to make him “a one-term President”?

We Democrats are, for the most part, over the election at this point. We may not be happy that we have a Republican President and question the way he got there, but we have had Republican Presidents before and life went on.

The difference is that those other times, we knew that our basic life and rights were safe, intact and wouldn’t be infringed upon or threatened. It is not that there is a Republican President in office, it is who and what the man is that concerns and scares us.

For the sake of this country and every citizen in it, may he be the one-term President that McConnell wanted Obama to be.

Marsha Korot

Reality bites

Napa, Calif.: Jeffrey Lord, longtime Trump apologist, has it all wrong (“President Trump has created a new reality show,” Op-Ed, Feb. 16). Yes, Trump has a new reality show, but it was best described by the advisers of Vice Adm. Robert Harward, who wisely counseled him not to partake of the Trump administrations’ “s--t sandwich.”

Steve Villano

Dear Lord

Coventry, R.I.: I must say I am very surprised by your decision to invite Jeffrey Lord to write for your paper. He is already overexposed on CNN as a Trump spinner and liar. He may know a lot about history and past Presidents, but he often comes off as pretentious, self-righteous and just plain wrong on so many things.Thanks for listening, and keep up the good work. Holly Rousseau

Truth to power

Santa Ana, Calif.: Thank you so much for your courage and honesty in printing an excellent Op-Ed by Gabriel Schoenfeld (“Press conference shows something is wrong with our President,” Feb. 16). I feel terrible as an American citizen in thinking the same thing that he said but I can’t help my feelings. I am a California Republican and have been for over 50 years but never resonated with Trump from the very first time he opened his mouth. And my feelings for him have gotten worse by the day since then; I voted for Hillary with pleasure. I truly don’t want to see Vice President Pence in the main seat, but if we find that Trump is a true danger to this country with his garrulous blather and strange, altered mindset and unrealistic point of view, then at least we will have someone with a modicum of statesmanship at the helm. A rotten, horrid agenda, mind you, but at least not incredibly embarrassing to our great country.

Roxana Markey

No happy holiday today

Lindenhurst, L.I.: Presidents’ Day isn’t just a day for me to celebrate shopping anymore — when I think about today’s President that people purchased in November. The people who voted for Trump did not know what they were buying. The Trump vote was very costly, but all the American people have to pay for it. The price is too high, and we may not be able to afford the cost. It’s buyer’s remorse — for alas, this purchase is not returnable (short of an impeachment), it’s a final sale.

Susan Marie Davniero

In tents, anywhere

Staten Island: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, billed as the Greatest Show on Earth, has relocated to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Michele Corelli

Bag it

Oceanside, L.I.: Has anyone considered the plight of the elderly? We don’t have the strength to carry one or two full bags loaded with groceries; therefore we prefer using multiple bags containing only two or three items. We tried the cloth totes, but when they are filled with groceries, they are just too heavy for us. Getting to the car with a cart is easy, but trying to lift the bags into the car is a chore, and when we get home, the trip to the kitchen with everything is worse. Having multiple small bags, though it requires more trips, is still a lot easier to handle. We go shopping once or twice a month for what we need rather than more frequent trips that waste gas and time. Growing up in the 1940s, paper bags were used and I must say, very successfully. They too had a multitude of uses. I remember using the paper bag to cover my schoolbooks. Paper is degradable so it’s not a problem for landfills. The extra cost, if any, can be part of the store’s expenses and perhaps a penny per item can be added which I am sure would not be noticed. John Rossano

It takes a village

Manhattan: It’s time to realize that child welfare cannot be abdicated to the state. We need to help our neighbors, and the state has to get out of the child removal business: It is not child welfare; it is a foster care and adoption industry. Cathi Henderson Swett

The cruelest

Fresno, Tex.: Dementia is the hardest disease to see our parents go through. It’s like watching them slowly leave us right before our eyes. Once you start seeing the signs, you go into the mourning process of death of a loved one. My mom has good days and bad days. Mom’s personality changes like a flick of a light switch. One day she could be so energetic and her old self, and the next day, she’s angry, believing someone is stealing from her room, or bank account. Dementia is a very mean disease. We do not do enough to fix it. There is only medicine to slow it down, but that’s only if you get it diagnosed as soon as possible. Diane Walker

The big picture

Clinton, Mont.: I am pretty sure if we look back not too far in time we will find that we have had a President who used his office to have sex, a President who sold out Israel to Iran with billions of dollars that our military has bled to get and a President who has absolutely bankrupted this country by giving it the Unaffordable Care Act. Yet you’re obsessed with Kellyanne Conway talking about Ivanka Trump. Too bad for this country that these stories don’t try to unite us instead of tearing us apart. Kathy Golie

Permanent vacation

Brookfield, Conn.: So the “Day Without Immigrants” is done and the next day was business as usual. What kind of a wimpy protest is that? Why not close up for good? That’ll show ’em!

Fred Schoeneborn

Traveling options

Brooklyn: Please urge your readers editorially to support Mitchell Moss’s excellent analysis of and solutions for the existing impediments to efficient transportation to and from LaGuardia Airport. I wholeheartedly endorse his expert proposal. I live in downtown Brooklyn and have come to book flights from LaGuardia no sooner than late morning to avoid the crush of rush hour on the F train through Manhattan to the Roosevelt Ave. hub, where I transfer to the Q70 bus, a most inefficient route that also requires a substantial investment in time. Returning from LaGuardia means the same route in reverse. Ursula Hahn

Cruise safely

Lindenhurst, L.I.: From a person who has cruised at least 18 times — no one simply falls off the 11th-deck balcony (“Carnival cruise ship passenger from Georgia falls overboard from 11th deck in Bahamas,” Feb. 14). The railings are high enough that he would have to climb on top of it. Sadly, this gentleman must have jumped — as do many people off cruise ships — or tried showing off for his friends. I think it’s really unfair for you to say someone fell because it makes people not want to go on cruises, thinking they’re dangerous. Carnival does the utmost to protect the safety of its passengers. I have cruised with them numerous times. Erin Daly

Touching one’s roots

Reuters Burnet, Tex.: I do family research. While perusing old newspapers the other day, I came across an article from June 30, 1838, in the Richmond Weekly Palladium (Richmond, Ind.) about 11 Indian graves at Sagadahoc, on the Kennebec (Maine). Some of these skeletons were reported to be 7 feet tall with burial items supposedly of Asiatic influence. I watched the “Search for the Lost Giants” show and thought the brothers might be interested.

D. L. Bradshaw