Sound Off

Sound Off: April 24, 2025

By Sun Herald readers

April 24, 2025 3:00 AM

trump. President Donald Trump watches as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent participates in a ceremonial swearing in of Paul Atkins as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP

Patience

President Trump’s first term brought the greatest economy this country has ever seen. Take a break, take some deep breaths and let him perform his magic.

Bible hawk

It’s not surprising our self-serving president who calls First Corinthians “one Corinthians,” and pushes his Trump Bible sales forgot to go to Mass or any service on Easter Sunday.

Why Trump?

During the Obama administration, more than 3 million illegal immigrants were sent home. Bill Clinton hired more border agents than anyone in history. Why are Democrats after President Trump?

Fire that man

President Trump knows nothing about economics. How do I go about firing him from his job? I think that DOGE needs to lay him off, since he’s not doing a good job. If he can do it to other Americans, then we should be able to fire the president for incompetence.

No outrage

Why is there such a deafening silence from the tree-hugging environmentalists on the Bonnet Carre Spillway opening, which is very harmful to nature?

Hypocrisy

If President Biden’s Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, had done what President Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, just did, Trump would have been all over social media crying out for Austin to be fired and arrested. But what was Trump’s reaction to the stupid and dangerous things that Hegseth did? He just brushed aside criticisms of his own guy whereas he would have blistered an opposition politician for doing the same thing. Such hypocrisy undermines the reputation and functioning of democracy. Politicians who exude such hypocrisy cannot be respected and should be replaced by those who can be. To those who really believe in democracy, morals matter.

Religious freedom

Religious freedom is being able to worship any deity you chose. It does not give you a reason to refuse vaccines that protect public health, tell others what to do, or change a school curriculum. If your children hear something contrary to what you believe, your home environment should keep them from having an opinion different than yours.

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