November 18, 2024
Dear editor;
Are you seeing what Donald Trump’s Project 2025 has in store for all of us even before he’s in office?
“America first” means America alone, but we have relationships in this world who depend on us as an international leader in economics, defense, and climate change awareness. Our economic relationships are intertwined with our security relationships around the world that would quickly dissolve into crisis and chaos with careless use of tariffs as Trump wants to use without thoughtful consideration of their consequences. Although chaos works for him, I just don’t see how it reduces the price of eggs.
Furthermore, Trump has posted on his Truth Social social media platform that he will declare as president an emergency crisis so he can use our military forces against undocumented immigrants he wants to mass deport. This could include entire families says former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Tom Homan, who Trump wants put in charge of all deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin.
Trump wants to appoint without advice and consent of the Senate: Tulsi Gabbard, friend of Russia, director of National Intelligence; Peter Hegseth, secretary of Defense, from Fox News Weekend who Trump thinks looks good on TV, but has zero experience in managing anything let alone our defense; Robert F. Kennedy Jr, secretary of Health and Human Services, doesn’t believe in measles vaccine; and Matt Gaetz, attorney general, who resigned from Congress before a viable report of sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old could be revealed.
Judy Siedlecki, Oswego