Perspectives on news conference

Beautifully written article about the president’s press conference [“For Pure Absurdity, No Beating This Trump Show,” Feb. 18]. I watched the whole sorry thing and was aghast at how totally unqualified he keeps proving himself to be for the position he is in.

You, and the other members of America’s press community, have got your jobs cut out for you. It seems almost impossible, at this point, to get anything of truth and/or substance out of this man.

The press is not the enemy of the American people, nor even of Donald Trump (though he would disagree).

Again, thanks for a job well done. I’m saving your column just to see how things might change in the months or years ahead. Then again, he may not have enough of these so-called press conferences to make a meaningful comparison. Judy Reinsma Santa Clarita

After watching that crazy art performance with Donald Trump I became convinced that this will be a future off-Broadway production — performed verbatim, with possible musical interludes by the reporters and Cabinet officials. Great theater of the absurd. Heartbreaking though that this is our reality and this is our president. Alex Downs Long Beach

Your article today made me laugh out loud. Coverage just as the president predicted! I loved his presser. Laughed and cheered all the way through it. I loved watching him run circles around the spoiled, selfimportant, crybaby socalled press. Good for President Trump! Sandra Wilson Venice

Are you kidding me? The criticism and negative reporting of Trump has been relentless since he was elected. Nonstop hysteria. And do you honestly think that everything the media writes about him and his administration the public believes?

While he may not be “presidential,” Trump has a right to give his side of his administration and what he thinks. The media is the one that is more often absurd when it comes to reporting on Trump. Full-out hysteria. Anita Roglich Santa Monica

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Lorraine Ali’s humorous but terrifying article about what a freak show of Trump being Trump can be. It was no accident that he put on his more than onehour performance for the media — hurling insults, flinging lies and reveling in self-love — his way of diverting public attention from a dysfunctional administration. Phyllis Landis Oceanside