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To the Editor:

Re “In Outburst, Trump Calls Somali Immigrants ‘Garbage’” (news article, Dec. 3):

Every day, we are subjected to President Trump’s outrageous and boorish behavior. Millions of Americans long for the class and decency of his last two predecessors.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden always acted in ways we think of as presidential.

Every day, Mr. Trump dishonors the office of the presidency. He diminishes the United States in word and in deed.

Eric Beldoch
Bronx

To the Editor:

This human being who is our leader calls another country and its inhabitants “garbage.” He calls those who have come to the United States from there “garbage.” Disgraceful.

Here is a man who cannot accept nor understand that Somalis (and many others) are simply human beings, like him. But unlike him, they were not born with the opportunities and wealth that he was. It is impossible for me to believe that Americans who call themselves Christian can keep quiet.

Dee Baer
Wilmington, Del.

To the Editor:

What does it say about us as a people that during this time of strife, danger and momentous decisions we have placed our trust and elevated to leadership such a flawed, self-serving, venal, willfully ignorant person?

It appears we have fallen far from our ideals, from what it has meant to be an American.

This does not have to be the end of the American dream, unless we no longer care; we can reclaim our power and our ideals. We may have to fight for them, because evil will not willingly give up its place on the throne. Yet isn’t what we built here worth that effort?

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