To the editor: President Donald Trump’s reckless irresponsibility regarding North Korea is not making this country safer. And his behavior has been entirely abetted by the Republican Congress. Citizens have to demand that Congress fulfill its constitutional duty and provide a check and balance to a man who has squandered our international good will and is ceding the role of sober statesman to one of the world’s worst dictators.
— Timothy Curtin, Hinsdale
Juvenile behavior
To the editor: Mentioning political correctness around President Donald Trump is sure to set off a barrage of tweets. Sometimes political correctness goes overboard in an effort to not offend anyone — but most of the time it simply means being polite and sympathetic. Being civil these days in the age of Trump has become difficult, if not impossible because of the Twitter outrages.
Trump takes umbrage over the smallest bit of criticism because his ego is so fragile. He can dish it out, but has a low tolerance for the return. It is too bad that he, by example, has made good manners a thing of the past and out of fashion for a large segment of our population. He has always been the “relative” you can’t take anywhere because he never misses a chance to be rude, insulting and juvenile in his behavior.
In short, he has made himself a worldwide embarrassment.
— Raleigh Sutton, Elgin
Super savings
To the editor: The president has called the new Republican tax plan a boon for the middle class. According to my calculations, it looks the average middle-class family is going to save less than $5 per day. Now that does not sound like a boon, but the news is not all bad for everyone. Based off of what we know about the president’s tax returns, there are projections that show that President Trump could save about $11 million a year. That means that the president will save a little more than $30,000 a day! So when the president says that he knows more about taxes than the rest of us, I believe him. He crafted the perfect tax bill, from his perspective, for himself.
— William Trunkhill, DeKalb, Ill.
On tenterhooks
To the editor: In light of President Donald Trump’s tweets toward Kim Jong Un, Robert Mueller, is there anything I can do to help? Take out your trash? Walk your dogs? Run an errand? You know, anything to speed along your special counsel work. Some typing, phone answering? I want to help; I fear that we haven’t much time.
— Thomas Nance, Prophetstown, Ill.
