To the editor: It’s an unlucky signal of our occasions that the president of the US viciously attacking a reporter’s affordable query by snapping “Quiet, piggy” doesn’t generate extra substantial nationwide condemnation. It suggests we’re changing into desensitized to the ugliness spewed by the president. Columnist Anita Chabria wrote a superb evaluation of this difficulty (“‘Quiet, piggy’ wasn’t a joke. It’s a harmful invitation to violence,” Nov. 21).
President Trump’s stunning and very ugly insult to this feminine reporter is just the newest in a protracted line of his private assaults on ladies. His go-to insults are to name a lady “very low IQ” (significantly when insulting a lady of coloration) or calling ladies “nasty” or “horrible.”
Prefer it or not, Trump’s conduct (just like the conduct of all previous presidents) units an instance for younger individuals. Do we actually need Trump’s aberrant conduct modeled by a era of younger males? Do we wish that conduct to be inflicted on our wives and daughters? By no more loudly condemning Trump’s appalling behaviors, we look like detached to them, and even condoning them. What sort of a harmful society are we then creating for ladies and younger ladies on this nation?
Matthew Singerman, Newbury Park
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To the editor: The column by Chabria hit the mark. She notes how Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi stays in good graces by following the Trump administration playbook. It appears that evidently Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt toes the road as properly — and provides her personal particular twists.
Leavitt all the time manages to blast again tougher. Her official response to the “Quiet, quiet, piggy” comment was that Trump is forthright, open and trustworthy with reporters (by calling them names, apparently), in contrast to his predecessor, who remained aloof.
One other Leavitt twist got here when six Democrats in Congress made a brief video to remind service members they’d a proper and a accountability to refuse illegal orders. Leavitt shifted issues round to say that each one orders from the commander in chief are lawful. My query is: Does Leavitt actually imagine these items herself?
Gene Nielsen, Crescent Mills
