Letter to the editor: Dems should rally against Trump’s birthday parade

We have heard about the planned military parade through Washington, D.C., planned for June 14 this year. Apparently, it is Donald Trump’s 79th birthday and the 250th Anniversary of the U.S. Army. The Army projects that it will spend between $25 and $45 million to carry out this spectacle.

Decent individuals with personal stories support an indecent, vulgar, vengeful, self-serving president. How that has happened is a challenge the pundits struggle to answer.

On Tuesday this week, the U.S. president said he would never bend from his tariff strategy. “Don’t be weak. Don’t be stupid,” he told his lemming-like faithful on Truth Social. “Instead be strong, courageous and patient,” adding he would never back down.

Because if you don’t speak out now, this Republican-led Congress will believe Americans don’t care about the damage Trump is doing to the country and is, in fact, on the right track.

Trump’s tariff policies change sometimes hour to hour, with several levies being threatened, imposed and then paused in the seven weeks since he took office. Businesses and consumers in Vermont, and nationwide, are left to try and keep up.

We are participating in a remake of the “Voyage of the Titanic.” Under the guidance of our misguided captain, President Trump, the Titanic, the United States of America, is steaming, full speed, towards more than one potential “iceberg.”

If you managed to watch President Trump’s address to Congress without blowing a gasket, that either means you fell asleep during the longest, chest-thumping, rambling rampage of narcissism the nation has ever witnessed or, like too many congressional Repu … (read more)

It is the civic and patriotic duty of Americans to call out their elected officials when they blatantly lie about our allies and then berate and attempt to humiliate our allies’ heads of state in public. How can Vermonters not protest when the day before … (read more)

In a brazen history rewrite, President Trump declares Ukraine at fault for Russia’s invasion of their sovereign country, calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator.” Last week, in a U.N. Assembly, the U.S. sided with Russia against Europe … (read more)

On March 15, many people will mail Donald Trump a postcard that publicly expresses our opposition to him. And we, in vast numbers, from all corners of the world, will overwhelm the man with his unpopularity and failure. We will show the media and the poli … (read more)

I contacted Gov. Phil Scott on Feb. 2 asking him to condemn the illegal and immoral actions of President Trump and the unappointed and unelected Elon Musk. Given his history shepherding Vermont through unprecedented times, I was hopeful that much like his … (read more)

Executive orders by President Trump have cast a shadow over millions of dollars in federal research money that comes to Middlebury College.

While President Donald Trump was taking his oath of office in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda at noon on Monday, a crowd of more than 100 of his Addison County constituents had gathered amid freezing temperatures in Middlebury’s Court Square to publicly oppose m … (read more)

To honor Martin Luther King Jr. on January 20, and to be the loyal opposition to Trump’s Project 2025 plans, Middlebury’s local Indivisible group ([email protected]) invites concerned citizens to join us as a visible presence on the upper to … (read more)

Trump’s dominance in the swing states reflected voters’ dissatisfaction with high inflation and the high cost of living that had followed the Covid 19 pandemic.