The Trump era
In “Schizophrenic America” (No Holds Barred, January 24), Shmuley Boteach gets it wrong. All wrong. He describes supporters of US President Donald Trump as religious, and the demonstrators on the Shabbat immediately after the inauguration as less religious. Talk about schizophrenia!
I’m interested in Rabbi Boteach’s definition of being religious. Since he, and not I, categorized hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who left their homes, families and, in many cases, their traditions of observing the Jewish Shabbat as not religious, what is it that defines religiosity in his dictionary?
Is religiosity support for a man named Trump who is a sexual predator (in his very own words), a liar, a cheat in business, a womanizer and an individual with a skin that’s thin like no other, who perpetrates lie after lie after lie? This is a man with no religiosity and no visible values. Perhaps the rabbi can identify some of Trump’s values so we can better understand his own.
I, for one, even as I search my soul looking for a single redeeming feature in the 45th president of the United States, can see none. No values whatsoever. Really astounding.
ROSANNE SKOPP
Herzliya
Regarding “A period of instability” (Analysis, January 22) about the Trump administration, top adviser/counselor Kellyanne Conway looked a bit haggard as she defended President Donald Trump’s bare-faced lie about the size of the inauguration crowd.
Looking like a puppet on a string, she was hired to shill for the Trump administration’s agendas, and that includes selling the president’s outright lies to the American public and having us believe his pronouncements as “alternative facts.” Just how stupid does she (and he) think we are?
I’m all for giving President Trump a chance to “make America great again,” but it shouldn’t include accepting lies and “alternative facts” as part of an agenda that is beginning to look more like “The world according to Donald Trump.”
What’s that old adage about repeating lies so often, people will believe them as the truth?
HERB STARK Mooresville, North Carolina
Hey! Aren’t you overdoing the anti-Trump articles? I’m so tired of all the writers, featured ad nauseam, ranting on repetitively while lacking substance. I think your loyal readers could be better served.
ELLEN JAFFE Jerusalem