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Sound Off: May 15, 2025

By Sun Herald readers
Newly arrived South Africans wait to hear welcome statements from U.S. government officials in a hangar at Atlantic Aviation Dulles near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025, in Dulles, Virginia. Dozens of white South Africans, also called Afrikaners, accepted an invitation from the Trump Administration to come to the United States as refugees.
Newly arrived South Africans wait to hear welcome statements from U.S. government officials in a hangar at Atlantic Aviation Dulles near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025, in Dulles, Virginia. Dozens of white South Africans, also called Afrikaners, accepted an invitation from the Trump Administration to come to the United States as refugees. Chip Somodevilla TNS

Racism

White South Africans are granted refugee status for being “prosecuted” in a country that they colonized. Just because they are White and probably rich. This proves the president is trying to make America White again. Sorry, that door has closed, but genocide could be a solution.

The dullest knife

Economics is not hard. Realizing you don’t understand economics is. Tariffs and trade deficits aren’t the same as President Trump thinks. We are a consuming nation that buys things, a lot of things. The UK-US tariff agreement was a milking stool under a bull. We have a trade surplus with the UK, and have for a very long time. All the orange man is doing is driving our buyers elsewhere. This recession, soon to be a depression, is Trump’s making. He inherited the economic envy of the world. All that changed with all his idiotic executive orders.

ICE protest

Three Democrat members of Congress and the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, assaulted federal law enforcement attempting to breach a jail. These are felons and should be arrested and jailed.

Help him

Will someone tell President Trump that Medicare does not have drug coverage. You must pay extra for drug insurance. Many insurances that cover drug costs use the name Medicare to sell their policies.

They said it

When even Nikki Haley and Ben Shapiro are ripping the president, you know he’s gone and done something stupid again.

Terrible

My husband and I went to the cinema at the mall and bought popcorn. It was so bad. They don’t even pop it fresh, and the taste proves it. Popcorn used to be the best part at the movies. And it wasn’t cheap.

FOX News

Now we’ve got folks quoting FOX News in Sound Off. The same FOX News that paid $787 million for lying in favor of the Republican party?

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