Readers react to Donald Trump
Donald Trump
The Republican presidential nominee says that America is a nightmare and “I alone can fix it.”
The Democratic nominee tells me that this is a great country, the strongest, richest, most admired in the world, with the highest number of immigrants.
In my long life, only World War II was solved. Taxes have jumped around like crickets, and we still clamor that they’re unfair.
Healthcare has been improved but is still controversial. Some diseases have been mostly eliminated, but new ones emerge. Medicines and technology have greatly improved life.
No Superman — no one person — can “fix it.”
John A. Zurlo, Arlington
I’m baffled how anyone, especially evangelical Christians, can continue to endorse a lying, climate change-denying, gun-loving, immigrant-hating, rude, crude, narcissistic bully like Donald Trump.
I can only surmise Trump’s version of the Bible interprets the Golden Rule to mean ridiculing those with disabilities, belittling Gold Star families, insulting women and demeaning those who are black, Hispanic or Muslim.
Sharon Austry, Fort, Worth
If you want the military with machine guns at our airports, like in Europe, vote for Hillary Clinton, because ISIS will not be stopped if she is president.
If you want unabated debt, wide-open borders, continued loss of manufacturing and a weak military, vote for Clinton. Otherwise, vote for Trump. He is our only hope.
Paula Scoggin, Benbrook
Trump surely has a hidden agenda to kill the Republican Party. There are times when he sounds like a mentally ill person.
He generates so much hate and, if he’s elected president, people will conclude they’ll need to own guns to stay alive.
Trump’s world consists of four mirrored walls. He sees only himself.
James L. Anton, Arlington
We sincerely hope that the citizens of this country and the world appreciate the irony that Trump may have been undone by the heartfelt and powerful words of a Muslim couple from Virginia.
Equipped not with bombs or bullets or airplanes turned into missiles, but armed only with humility and integrity, reason and logic, pride and patriotism, Ghazala and Khzir Khan have shown what real America stands for and what real Americans believe.
By doing so, the Khans exposed The Donald as the narcissistic, ill-informed, bigoted demagogue he so obviously is.
Jack V. Strickland and Carolyn Poirot, Fort Worth
Just the other day, Trump promised that Russia would not invade Ukraine, not seeming to know that Russia invaded two years ago.
He attacked the parents of a fallen soldier.
He lied about the NFL sending him a letter regarding the dates of upcoming candidate debates.
I keep asking myself how Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others can support Trump.
Why don’t they completely denounce him?
Marsha Fishman, Coppell
Trump has called women pigs.
He said a federal judge, born in Indiana, was unqualified because he has Mexican heritage.
He called Mexicans rapists and criminals.
He mocked a reporter with a disability.
He questioned whether Sen. John McCain was a war hero because he was captured.
Now Trump equates the “sacrifices” he made doing business with those of an Army captain who was killed in Iraq, and then he makes disparaging remarks about the fallen soldier’s family.
What comes to mind are the words of Joseph N. Welch, chief counsel for the Army during the Sen. Joe McCarthy hearings: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
Richard LaChance,
Fort Worth
This story was originally published August 5, 2016 at 5:51 PM with the headline "Readers react to Donald Trump."