All-Trump ticket
Flushing: Donald Trump for President sounds good to me, and he should have his daughter Ivanka as his vice president. At least we know that if he’s elected he won’t be using the position to put himself on the road to riches — he’s rich already! His decision to run is for the good of the country that he truly loves. And we won’t have to spend so much money on makeovers for the women in his life, since they’re beautiful and well-dressed already. Evelyn Zorovich
Low-class disgrace
Levittown, L.I.: Your Donald Trump front pages have been a disgrace. You may think he is not fit for the presidency, but do you think the others are fit? Trump deserves the same respect you give those candidates and, believe it or not, there a lot of people who share his views on closing the border, bringing jobs back to our country, building up our military and fighting Isis. So show a little class, and give respect to one of our own from New York. Winifred Larkin
Good Bramhall
Hackensack, N.J.: After seeing Bramhall’s cartoon about the good old boys taking down the Confederate flag and getting married, and then the one with Donald Trump strolling the catwalk without NBC, I can’t believe I get his work (almost) every day in The News at no extra charge. He’s fall-down funny! Richard A. Naumann
Fit to burst
South Amboy, N.J.: The Republican Party has turned the 2016 election into a circus, and now Trump, another clown, has joined the race. Enough already — the clown car is full! Barbara Bird
#1 or hellhole?
Lansdowne, Pa.: Voicer Rochelle Berkeley is exactly right. Do not miss Donald Trump’s great book, “Time To Get Tough: Making America #1 Again.” Then read Ann Coulter’s “Adios, America: The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into a Third-World Hellhole.” Georgia B. Makiver
Out of style
Eatontown, N.J.: Hilary Clinton’s campaign logo looks like a sign for a hospital. She seems unable to give a speech without constantly looking down at notes her staff prepared. After all these years, she should be able to give one from memory. Keep her and Bill out of the White House so that there won’t be any more broken lamps and broken promises. She is outdated, like her dowdy pantsuits from the last century. Mary O’Shea
Here, there and everywhere
Ridgefield Park, N.J.: A question for all those who repeated the slogan, “we are fighting them over there so that we don’t have to fight them here,” to justify the Bush-Cheney invasion of Iraq: How does that appear to be working out? Chris Mc Loughlin
Where it hurts
Bellerose: Kudos to Mayor de Blasio for fighting back against Gov. Cuomo. The only way to stop a bully is to stand up to him. Putting the mayor on a short leash by engineering a mere one-year extension of mayoral control of the public schools will come back to bite the governor in the ballot box. Robert Berger
Punch back, mayor
Brooklyn: Thank you, Mayor de Blasio, for standing up to our horrible excuse for a governor. For years, I have seen him treat the people of this city with no respect at alll. Look no further than the MTA, its policies and its ruthless disregard of the poor. Thomas Story
De Blasio’s New York
Wilmington, N.C.: My wife and I retired and moved to North Carolina in 2011 after living a stone’s throw from NYC in northern Jersey all of our lives. We just returned for a nine-day visit, and were surprised to see how the crime rate has soared under Mayor de Blasio. We haven’t seen it that bad since David Dinkins ran the show. Robert Roy
Which side are we on?
Holliswood: I think the Daily News is of two minds when it comes to reporting on criminal justice. The paper describes as “creeps” the teens who punched and kicked a boy for his backpack (“Teens gang up, beat boy,” June 14). But for the past few months, The News has made a martyr out of Kalief Browder, also accused of robbery and who spent three years on Rikers because he couldn’t make bail, with his case only eventually dismissed because his alleged victim moved back to Mexico and could not be located. Gregory W. Chupa
Pride and pain
Manhattan: The majority of white people say they see the Confederate flag as a symbol of pride and not racism. What hypocrisy. I guarantee that flag would be viewed differently if it represented a time when blacks owned and abused white people, a time when terrified white children were ripped from the arms of their screaming mothers to be sold away and a time when black men raped and impregnated white women with impunity. And blacks engaged in a war against the United States of America for the right to continue that way of life. Then how many whites would say this is a symbol of pride? Ben Montgomery
Let Puerto Rico go
Manhattan: Juan Gonzalez wants the U.S. government to bail out Puerto Rico’s incompetent bureaucracy in San Juan, whose employees cannot be bothered to show up for work, pick up a telephone, mail an envelope or speak a word of English (“Our Greece,” July 1). I see now why, in referendum after referendum, only a tiny percent of the populace over there votes for independence from the U.S. Although they talk about how the U.S. took their island, which is an unfortunate and disgraceful truth, they have little incentive to change the status quo so as to keep the cash flowing from Washington, D.C. Close the spigots and cut the apron strings. Robert Sieger
Correcting the record
Colonia, N.J.: I loved “I Remember Mama,” and was sad to hear of the death of Dick Van Patten. To Voicer Ruth Graves, Dick played Nels, the son of Lars. He actually named one of his sons Nels. Estelle Saltzman
Correcting the record, cont.
Manhattan: In the Sunday, June 21, crossword puzzle, the clue for 51 down was “Ray Bolger’s ——man,” and the answer was “tin.” But in “The Wizard of Oz,” Bert Lahr was the Cowardly Lion, Ray Bolger was the Scarecrow and Jack Haley was the Tin Man. Audrey Israeli
Gifts
Voicer Rita Eason wrote that she hopes Dylann Roof gets the same “gift” in prison that Jeffrey Dahmer received. She is obviously hoping someone kills him, as someone killed Dahmer. But there is something else Dahmer received that I pray with all my heart Riff also does: the free gift of salvation by believing in Jesus Christ. Based on what I know of the nine people he killed, they would want Roof to have it, too. Their families sure do. There is no sin too big that belief in Jesus cannot forgive. John Farina
The only explanation
Brooklyn: The Colombian Day parade, the Puerto Rican Day parade, the St. Patrick’s Day parade and the Thanksgiving Day parade are all fully covered on television. Why not the Israel Day parade? Seems like prejudice to me. Pearl Feigenbaum
Anti-Italian outrage
Mineola, L.I.: If one picture is worth a thousand words, then the front page of Wednesday’s Daily News (July 1) speaks volumes about the persistence of anti-Italian bigotry in the media. In depicting Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio as brutish machine-gun-toting mobsters, your paper has vilified two of the nation’s most prominent Italo-American officeholders. Moreover, the lurid headline, “Vendetta: Mayor unleashes rapid-fire tirade vs. ex-pal Andy,” calumniates a people whose ancestors pioneered the rule of law, the scientific method and the very notion of world peace. The scions of Italy are Caesar’s heirs — not the spawn of Tony Soprano or Don Vito Corleone. Your editors rightly eschewed Shylock caricatures used to attack Mayor Bloomberg. And the paper has never depicted Police Commissioner Bill Bratton as a drunken Whitey Bulger wannabe. It would be wise for the Fourth Estate to adhere to Filippo Mazzei’s ethical concept, which first appeared in the Virginia Gazette in 1774 and became America’s founding principle in 1776: “All men are created equal.” Rosario A. Iaconis, Chairman, The Italic Institute of America
