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San Francisco: The immorality of President Trump overriding the Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act, enacted by Congress in March 2022 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is staggering. Trump made a unilateral decision Oct. 9 — without adhering to the legal requirement to satisfy the statutory requirements of Congress — to purchase up to 4.8 million tons of Russian diesel fuel.
The purchases are expected to generate around $1 billion for Vladimir Putin — money that’ll inevitably find its way into funding Russia’s virtually nonstop bombardment of Ukraine’s infrastructure, including ports that account for the vast majority of its export earnings, water and power facilities, transport systems such as railways, and civilian population centers.
My outrage increases when Trump blames Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the high cost of diesel because of attacks on Russian energy infrastructure. Perhaps the president should recognize that the nearly 40% increase in the price of diesel since taking office, as well as the 30% increase in the price of gas, has to do with his complete miscalculation in the war with Iran, virtually shutting down energy transport in the Strait of Hormuz. One might expect more outrage from the American people. However, given the surging healthcare costs resulting from the elimination of subsidies, and soaring food and energy prices, it’s understandable that domestic worries take center stage.
Bruce Farrell Rosen
Redondo Beach, Calif.: No American president has ever supported a communist leader more than Trump.
John Chevedden
Howard Beach: There are two major wars going on in the world, one of which he started, plus many smaller conflicts. The price of food and fuel is through the roof, he’s threatening our allies with tariffs, talking about the Russians and San Diego or Los Angeles being nuked by Iran, yet he’s concerning himself with a golf course in Washington, D.C. (“Don calls mulligan,” Oct. 20). Idiot. Priorities, dude, priorities.
George Martin
Manhattan: There’s nothing more American than exercising your right to free speech. In the U.S., we have the right to speak out against anything or anyone, including the president. It’s clearly spelled out in the First Amendment. When Rep. Ilhan Omar spoke out about the president, she was well within her rights. She may have triggered some strong emotions in him, but it doesn’t matter if the president’s feelings were hurt. She clearly hasn’t crossed any lines. It appears that this administration is trying to deport this sitting member of Congress on the heels of her criticism. Historically, other presidents have endured far worse than a few harsh remarks without mobilizing parts of their administration to exact revenge. There’s nothing more un-American than a president trying to deport someone because they exercised their rights. Why are we tolerating this un-American and unconstitutional behavior from this emotionally fragile administration?
Chris Carfizzi
White Plains, N.Y.: Katie Zacharia described herself as a lawyer but not as an attorney at law. That reminded me of a song by Ira and George Gershwin. Change the words and you have, “You say attorney and I say lawyer / attorney, lawyer / attorney, lawyer / Let’s call the whole thing off.”
Randi Bernstein Feigenbaum
Rochelle Park, N.J.: Does Fox News (I use that term very lightly — more like Fox Cartoon Network) have any more blondes who Trumpy can hire to his group of underqualified morons on his staff?
B. Boyle
Manhattan: A big, beautiful bouquet of fresh-cut flowers to Voicer Gerald Browne for labeling do-nothing congressional Republicans as “potted plants.” I too am a lover of greenhouses and thriving plants. If caretakers don’t nurture those plants, they wilt and die. The analogy with democracy is apt. Without care, things die. Let’s use our votes to replace those ailing potted plants in Congress with thriving, pro-democracy ones!
Frankie Turchiano
Jefferson City, Mo.: I’m not a New Yorker, but I might visit someday. I’ve thought about it for years. If I do, I want a ride in a horse-drawn carriage because it’s something I identify with the city. I think many visitors are of a like mind. As a Missourian working in agriculture and environmental control, I’ve had occasion to read about the controversy surrounding New York’s horse-drawn carriage industry. It’s more a question of sociopolitical control than a question of animal wellbeing. It would be a shame to wipe out a long-honored and -enjoyed symbol of New York simply for the will of a vocal element on the fringe of American society. When the vote is taken on Thursday, I hope New York will decide to keep horse-drawn carriages.
Jerry Foster
Manhattan: Workers in the carriage horse industry are complaining that they’re being thrown out of work because of the ban. Maybe they can be put to work pulling the carriages around, as the horses did. After all, rickshaws are commonly used in many cities throughout the world.
James Baldwin
Brooklyn: Why are new drug stores/pharmacies opening all over Bay Ridge, sometimes on the same block? The need for this many can’t possibly exist. Can this be another way (like senior daycare) to abuse Medicare/Medicaid? This should be looked into.
T. Henry
Cincinnati: Most Democrats know that single-payer health insurance is inferior to what we have, but are ideological captives to the idea that equity must be established for something as important as healthcare. Thus, they find a uniform lowest-common-denominator delivery system preferable to the hodgepodge of systems most Americans favor, even though it includes a heavy-handed bureaucracy ordering physicians to practice their highly specialized profession like myrmidons, many of their medical concerns left to wither, budgetary constraints ruling. In a democracy, we get what we vote for, not always what we pay for. Beware the ideology that medical concerns and treatments must be homogenized because of fairness. Fairness in this context is that all citizens have access to care, not that we all must have access to the same level of care if we desire to pay for something different.
Paul Bloustein
LaGrangeville, N.Y.: Re “Hochul should sign new solar panel bill” (op-ed, Oct 18): Balcony, or plug-in, solar is affordable renewable energy that even renters can use. Now legal in many states, it has been in use for years in Europe. Gov. Hochul can make it happen in New York by signing the SUNNY Act. Thousands of us are waiting to quickly hang a couple of panels off our decks, plug in and start generating our own electrons. What are you waiting for, governor?
Nivo Rovedo
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