Sound Off: April 13, 2026

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

My thoughts

Iran’s depraved leaders have threatened the U.S. as “the Great Satan” for more than 40 years, and had just told our negotiators they had “11 nuclear warheads now.” If someone points a loaded weapon at me, I’m not going to wait for them to shoot me before I take action. Bravo for the Trump administration.

It’s all money

I read a Sound Off called Space Travel Hype that was wondering what we are possibly doing going around the moon. The Daily podcast reported this mission is gathering information for future projects (contracted out to the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin) that will eventually build infrastructure to extract resources from the moon. Because we’ve taken such great care of the resources we have here on Earth.

Always the same

Has anyone else noticed that President Trump uses the timeline of two weeks for everything?

TACOs

Do Iranians love TACOs as much as the Republicans do?

Insiders

Surprise: There are ongoing concerns that government officials in Washington are using President Trump’s Hormuz war insider information to profit in the oil stock market. The response from Washington is they don’t know of any public information to support it. Duh, isn’t that why’s its called “insider” trading?

Priorities

I’m comforted knowing that while Vice President Vance is overseas attempting to make a deal with the Iranians, our noble president is solely focused on the most important thing in the world: attending the latest UFC fight.

TDS

Y’all really need to take a break from this Trump Derangement Syndrome. Take a walk outside. Get some fresh air. We all survived four years of President Biden, who seemed to have no earthly idea who he was or what he was doing half the time. You’ll be OK, too.

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