So-called comedians hurt Prez

Rockaway Beach: I am so saddened that the hosts of any show can use their platform to daily bash our new President, whoever that new President may be. Now, it happens to be President Donald Trump (“Trump to rescue — of late-night hosts,” Feb. 12). These monologues are not just jokes, but hurtful, degrading comments, and they never would have been tolerated against former President Barack Obama or, especially, if Hillary Clinton had been elected. No one would get away with daily bashing and degrading a President without serious repercussions. The country group the Dixie Chicks were blackballed everywhere because of a comment during their tour against then-President George W. Bush.

What is going on today against our elected President is so much more serious, and for some reason accepted and tolerated. Shame on all who cannot accept that Trump is our elected President and the leader of our country. We all need to show some respect and restraint. We may not like him or agree with him, but he is our President for the next four years. It’s time that the mean-spirited jokes and hurtful bashings are no longer fair game to be used as ratings boosters or by sore losers.

Dee Klein

Enough already

Bronx: Reading Richard Cohen’s Feb. 7 column (“Leader of the worst inside all of us”), I reflect on how oblivious he is of his own culpability in trashing the President of the United States as if he is the chief villain of our times. He overlooks the sources of world terror here and abroad, and the civic chaos that abounds, as well as the endless population conflicts that are bringing society down to its historic depths. He sees only one man, whom the great masses have settled on as the main target, attacking mindlessly over and over again. New York’s “hometown paper” used to fight for the underdog, and now fights for the mass of “just-likeme’s” who populate this leaderless city. It is no wonder that George Orwell’s “1984” is selling like hot cakes. Walter Powers

Wakeup call

Bronx: Thank you to those who were in a trance when they voted. You didn’t get what you wished for, and hopefully you are wide awake now to see the consequences of your votes. Good luck.

Evelyn Weber

First Lady of tolerance

Mamaroneck, N.Y.: Dear Melania: It has only been three weeks for the rest of us. How do you put up with it? Paul Matthews

Maturity test

Sanford, Fla.: To Chelsea Handler, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Maxine Waters et al.: Now you know how the rest of us felt when Barack Obama was elected President. However, we did not act out like spoiled children, throwing tantrums as you do. We do not want to pay for other people’s health insurance when we can hardly pay our own. We fought the Korean War to prevent this type of government from taking over the U.S.A. Unless we come together as one society with some common sense and good judgment, you guys will be responsible for this country becoming two separate societies. Please grow up and start acting like mature adults so some reasonableness can again prevail.

Irving Shimebaum

Bad faith

Bronx: When Donald Trump went to Great Faith Ministries International in Detroit, he had no clue what was really going on (“Oh, for the love of God,” Sept. 4). He was being lifted up to a higher power that only faith can call on and handle the will to possess. Lucky that he was not at an exorcism convention. Everyone knows regardless of race, color or creed that we are a praying people, but by no means are we stupid. The protesters outside also go to church. Sounds like a different kind of exorcism, through prayer with justifiable anger. No shots fired, just shouts, all of that aimed at a power greater than you. Enough.

Sheila Matthew

Roll your own

Brooklyn: Here’s a way we can get a handle on plastic bags: No stores should stock the bags, leaving the choice to the consumer and making it their responsibility to get their groceries and other items home how they choose. If they want to bring a reusable bag, so be it. If they want to carry their purchases in their arms, so be it. If they want to use plastic bags, so be it. The stores can leave their empty cardboard boxes, after stocking the shelves, in a designated spot at the front of the store and let consumers pack their groceries in them, cutting down on trash pickup and cutting out eight, 10, 12 plastic bags from a shopping trip. Carmine DeSena

Full-court press

Astoria: I am so disgusted seeing all these people suing the police, city, Administration for Children’s Services, etc. (“Zymere aunts set to sue city,” Feb. 8). Isn’t there any other way to get money? Like a job. It’s very sad about the babies who have died, but I’m sure the money isn’t gonna help them. Maybe they should be suing the people who committed the crimes in the first place.

Laura Rivera

A boy named sue

Little Neck: Re “Zymere aunts set to sue city”: Why? Their sister lived with an abusive bum who hurt her son. She allowed this abusive behavior. She should have left the bum and gotten protection. She didn’t! It was her fault. Why didn’t the aunts help?

Elizabeth Hughes

No comparison

Manhattan: Re the ignorant, racist comment made by Voicer Tony Errico: Why degrade exPresident Barack Obama as if he had anything to do with the horrible crimes against the jogger in Howard Beach? By that same idiotic reasoning, if Errico had a son he would look like Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler.

Al Spencer

Free dinner

Astoria: Barack Obama’s mother-in-law scarfed down plenty of juicy steaks in her eight years of White House freeloading at taxpayer expense. Joe Ametrano

Good & bad immigrants

Tinton Falls, N.J.: To Voicer Ron Jackowski: Emma Lazarus’ beautiful welcome to refugees and other immigrants printed on the base of the Statue of Liberty does not read, “Give me your tired, your poor, your radical Islamic terrorists.” This is now the 21st century, not the 19th, when the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” were indeed “homeless, tempest-tost” — good, honest, disenfranchised people from around the world who eventually became citizens and made this country great until recently. After 9/11, we must definitely separate the wheat from the chaff.

Bob Dunigan

Gold-plated welcome

Brooklyn: Congratulations to the Khoja family, safe and secure now in America (“You’re safe here, folks,” Feb. 9). How wonderful! They get a free, fully furnished apartment and a kitchen stocked with food, and jobs and teachers standing by to meet their other needs. Wow! Only in America! God bless us all. Does the Rutgers Presbyterian Church also provide for our American homeless street refugees? At an early age, I learned the adage, “Charity begins at home.” Then, and only then, do we care for others in need. I say this as a formerly homeless veteran (U.S. Army infantry, Vietnam).

Lou J. Martinez

What men sow

Bronx: To Voicer Michael Hooker: Women are fighting hard for the right to end pregnancies forced upon them by men who refuse to wear condoms and won’t allow women to use contraceptives. Why do you think pregnancy is a woman’s responsibility? Do you not know that unless a man enters a woman she could not possibly get pregnant? You should educate yourself about the role men play in rising abortion rates. They seem to think women and girls exist to ease their sexual urges, but are not going to help raise the fruit of their loins. They move from woman to woman, planting seeds and leaving the consequences for women to deal with on their own. That, Mr. Hooker, is why there are so very many pregnancies.

Angela Martinez

Gaga for Gaga

Bronx: Lady Gaga gave a spectacular performance at Super Bowl halftime. She sang her heart out and was backed by dozens of fantastic dancers. They were well rehearsed and didn’t miss a step. Hats off to them. Fantastic show!

Lu Berwanger

Winning bet

Rocky Point, L.I.: I found out that you can only claim your lottery losses against your lottery winnings if you itemize deductions on your tax return. This is very unfair to the average person, so much so that I will not buy any more lottery tickets. Al Glass