Broken promises

To the editor:

A recent letter (“Trojan Horse,” The Chief, Feb. 21) accurately referred to the daily onslaught of Donald Trump’s nonsense as “the firehose of developments.” From blaming DEI for a deadly air crash to quoting Napoleon Bonaparte, Trump uses outrage to control the news cycle and dodge accountability.

Addressing this daily flood of verbal diarrhea is a fool’s errand. Instead, Democrats (and critics like myself) should remind voters how Trump is failing them on substantive campaign promises.  Inflation is worse since he took office, making it impossible for the Fed to lower interest rates.  Trump promised new, well-paying jobs; all he’s done is eliminate existing, well-paying jobs.

Trump insisted he neither knew about nor planned to implement Project 2025; he is doing exactly that, at a breakneck pace.  

Crime, a central talking point for candidate Trump, has received zero attention from President Trump. He pledged to resolve conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine in less than a day; his solutions are to steal Gaza from its rightful owners and force Ukraine to surrender to Russia.  

Trump promised to end the influence of “elites,” then ceded control over all government services to the poster child for elitism, Elon Musk. Finally, even Trump’s promised “mass deportations” are falling short; ICE reported 37,600 deportations over Trump’s first month in office. Joe Biden averaged 57,000 deportations per month in his last year as president.

There are some signs of hope. Republican voters are finally souring on this incompetent, petty dictator wannabe. Trump’s approval is dropping and GOP Congressional members are hearing from angry constituents, such as one in deep red Georgia who asked Congressman Rich McCormick what his plans were to “rein in the megalomaniac in the White House.”

Joseph Cannisi