Dear Editor,

Our mega-egotistical and self-promoting President Donald J. Trump held a signing ceremony recently on July 4, 2025, Independence Day, flanked by Republican legislators and cabinet members in order to officially establish what he braggingly has promoted, quite illogically, as his “Big Beautiful Bill.”

In fact, what it will do, according to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, is add a monumental $3.3 trillion to our national deficit and, in the process, deprive 11.8 million Americans of their healthcare as Medicaid as well as food stamp benefits will be dramatically reduced by $1.2 trillion while extending and further enhancing tax cuts for the wealthiest among us, which is counter to Trump’s rhetoric throughout his 2024 campaign for the White House.

Imagine the verbal assault that would be launched by Republicans if Democrats had passed such an outlandish bill that will undoubtedly, greatly increase our national debt and deficit so dramatically, referring to such as “fiscally irresponsible,” which it is, but for which the Republicans, and they alone, are responsible.

In addition, President Trump has pledged to spend $45 billion of the taxpayers’ money on the construction of migrant detention centers throughout the U.S., claiming, with no such supportive evidence as per usual, that foreign countries have “emptied their prisons and mental hospitals and are having the aforementioned come to our great country in order to wreak havoc throughout the U.S.”

When in actuality our great country, which is largely a nation of immigrants, has seen reported crimes by these undocumented migrants to be less than 5 percent of crimes committed in the U.S.

Obviously, criminals and undesirables should be deported from our country, but by far the vast majority of undocumented immigrants do not fall in the above mentioned category and have come to the U.S. in an attempt to better their lives, which so many over the decades have done.

Sadly, Trump’s misleading and hateful rhetoric is shockingly somewhat reminiscent of what had been done to Jews in Nazi Germany under Adolph Hitler during World War Two.

Also, President Trump firmly promised to keep the U.S. “out of foreign wars,” but recently by injecting the U.S. into the Israel/Iran war by bombing an Iranian nuclear bomb site on behalf of Israel, which is sadly reminiscent of the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Our involvement in this conflict is like never before.

Keep in mind, as well, that upon his recent signing of his “Big Beautiful Bill” that Trump accused Democrats, who unanimously rejected the bill, for doing so simply as a result of what he perceived as their “hatred of Trump” and not as a result that the bill would prove to be very harmful to the American people, and he closed by stating that he (Trump) “hated them (Democrats) too.”

This from an individual who spent the vast majority of his adult life as an active Democrat, who only became a Republican upon his desire to enter the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, for his own perceived benefit.

Richard Hord

Martins Ferry, Ohio