A gold toilet aboard Air Force One?
CBS News, Fox News and other major news organizations have reported recently that Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, never travels anywhere without his personal toilet. According to Lee Yun-keol, who worked in a North Korean Guard Command, “The leader’s excretions contain information about his health status, so they can’t be left behind.”
Which prompts a question: How is our dear leader, Donald Trump, going to one-up Kim Jong Un on this issue?
The Guggenheim Museum could agree to let the gold toilet it once offered the White House be installed on Air Force One.
Perhaps Trump would let Kim Jong Un watch while Trump used the gold toilet on Air Force One.
To guard against any national security issues, the process, from beginning to end, could be overseen by the president’s White House physician, Ronny Jackson. This could work. After all, Ronny is a rear admiral. Bill Brown
Santa Fe
Chopper awareness
I just wanted to share some news that I believe is very exciting for our state. After writing proclamations for the governor and a state House representative the past few years, I got the idea to see if I could get all 33 New Mexico counties to sign a proclamation or resolution declaring May as Motorcycle Awareness Month.
With a lot of help from county administrators, clerks, managers, commissioners and even a couple of mayors, the goal was finally accomplished this week with every county in our state committing to sign proclamations specific to their county, including Santa Fe County.
I did some research and believe that New Mexico is the only state to have every county sign this type of proclamation. New Mexico motorcycle crashes have been on the increase for several years and everyone involved is hoping this will help prevent crashes and injuries, and maybe even help save lives throughout our state. Richard Sturgeon
Los Alamos
Reversing impressions
Santa Fe County published and promoted on its website the April 28 airing of the PBS program Travels with Darley. Santa Fe, Bonanza Creek Movie Ranch, San Marcos, Cerrillos, Madrid and the Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway are highlighted as top travel destinations.
How can Santa Fe County promote the Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway and yet allow for a truck stop to be built on it? No mitigation will ever remove the adverse impressions of this truck stop on the top of the Turquoise Trail.
This development of countywide impact will be contrary to the health, safety and welfare of our communities. Perhaps we need a moratorium on this project, and list “truck stops” as developments of countywide impact to be subject to all conditions in Chapter 11, titled, “Developments of Countywide Impact,” of the Sustainable Land Development Code. Lisa Burns
Santa Fe
Deplorables
In his Michigan rally, to escape the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (“At rally, Trump takes aim at familiar political targets, adds new ones,” April 29), Donald Trump dwelled mockingly on the label advanced by Hillary Clinton during the campaign: that half of Trump supporters were “deplorables.” She got a lot of flak for that, but for the wrong reasons. Her mistake was in the low percentage.
Ninety-nine percent-plus of Trump supporters are “deplorable.” By “deplorable” I mean those who are uninterested in facts, who revel in their ignorance, believe in pathological liars (Trump), and have abandoned their intelligence and/or moral sense. Those are truly deplorable. There’s no other way to vote for Trump. Many of them are proud to be labeled “deplorables.” Now that’s deplorable.
Roger Carasso
professor emeritus California State University, Northridge Santa Fe