Sound Off: July 30, 2025

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

Trump train

If you’re confident in you prediction that the Trump Train is going off the rails, I suggest you stand and wait in the middle of the tracks as you wave your “orange man bad” sign.

Nice drop

Maybe the funniest video out of President Trump’s golfing tour was his caddie dropping a ball for him to play. Obviously not a surprise, considering how many tales of his cheating on the course have been told, but funny to see on video.

Which is it?

President Trump’s mind is addled or he thinks we are fools. Within seconds in a recent interview he said he was not privileged to go to Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island and that he turned down an invitation to go there. If he had an invitation then he had the privilege of going there. I vote for increasingly addled.

Privilege

Definition: A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group. Maybe not the word I’d have used, Donald.

Gaza

In another time the United States of America would not let the starvation in Gaza take place.

Thanks?

So President Trump thinks that the people of Gaza should be be thanking him for the $60 million in food aid that he has supplied. Maybe he also wants them to thank him for the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bombs that Isreal has dropped on them.

Biden and Epstein

Even in Biden’s mental decline, he retained the decency of a man trying to unite the country. “America United” was the theme of his inaugural address. Epstein was dead, Maxwell was convicted, and he didn’t want to throw the country into the turmoil we are now in by igniting the MAGA base with the information on Trump. He’s not the vindictive person that Trump demonstrably is. Like a bully, Trump goes after anyone and everyone who opposes him with lies of treason, etc., etc.

Piano Man’s words

Billy Joel said of Virginia‘s mother “Aw, she never cared for me, but did she ever say a prayer for me?” There are many of us who don’t care for Trump, but, we must not fail to pray for him every single day.

Him, too?

If the standard — as President Trump has himself stressed repeatedly about Joe Biden — is that a president’s cognitive decline is a disqualifier and a potential liability, it’s worth taking a look at the man currently sitting behind the Resolute Desk.

Remember when?

Joe Biden sold U.S. oil reserves to communist China, and Democrats called it a “non-issue.” The same Democrats slammed President Trump’s trade strategy that resulted in the EU purchasing $750 billion worth of American energy.

Abuse of power

Why is it acceptable for the president to use taxpayer money to fly overseas and cut a ribbon at his own golf course? Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.

Look out

If Joe Rogan is out on President Trump, he’s got bigger problems than I thought.

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