The Concern: President Trump’s falling approval rankings as he nears the 100-day mark of his second time period.
It took former President Joe Biden and his administration 4 years to create the issues we’re dealing with right now (“Trump’s slide down the polls,” April 26).
But the American individuals anticipated President Trump to right every part on Day 1 or inside his first 100 days in workplace; they’ll’t be that naive.
Robert Neglia
The Bronx
After 4 dismal years with Joe Biden, we anticipated a euphoric excessive with President Trump. However we didn’t get that prime; as an alternative, we acquired a dismal forecast with no resolution in sight.
Sadly, Trump just about flew off the deal with, inflicting chaos largely by his tariff will increase.
He had an incredible alternative to get us from the doldrums of Biden’s time period, however didn’t take it.
Ron Zajicek
Cortlandt
The media is enjoying up the truth that, in varied polls, Trump has the bottom approval ranking for his first 100 days of any president in many years. Some pundits are downproper giddy over it.
I’m watching this media circus, questioning if these individuals have ever heard the sports activities axiom, “It’s not the way you begin, however the way you end.”
Trump has completed one of many biggest comebacks in American enterprise and political historical past. Does anybody actually assume that dancing on his grave now could be going to age effectively?
Eugene Dunn
Medford
A traditional president wouldn’t harbor an excessive obsession towards ever admitting error.
It’s and at all times will probably be absurd for Trump, on April 2, 2025, to have signed an govt order declaring a nationwide emergency based mostly on his subjective perception that commerce practices and our deficits represent a menace.
Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of finance at Trump’s alma mater, put it effectively: That is the “largest coverage mistake in 95 years.”
Lou Horwitz
St. Louis, Mo.
Though an avid supporter of President Trump, I’m bemused by a few of his actions.
As a substitute of concentrating on decreasing inflation and fixing the tariff dilemma, he’s blathering on about Greenland and Canada and appears to be appeasing Vladimir Putin and Iran. Trump will lose help if he doesn’t act extra just like the pre-election model of himself.
Anthony Bruno
Smithtown
The Concern: The Publish editorial criticizing New York Democrats’ help for assisted-suicide legalization.
The slippery-slope argument prevents society from enhancing upon the human situation (“Simply Say ‘No’ To Assisted Suicide,” Editorial, April 25).
As a substitute of assuaging human affected by its most deserving recipients, we abandon the complete situation based mostly on the worry of its corruption. Data, ability, and compassion ought to permit us to create legal guidelines that defend us from the slippery slope.
Jessy Friedman
Marlboro, NJ
Your editorial on medical assist in dying, arguing that there will probably be a slippery slope, is flawed.
On this nation, not like others, it’s troublesome to get legal guidelines enacted that authorize a dying affected person to take prescribed medicines. Growth of medical assist in dying is feasible, after all, solely by laws or courtroom selections, each of that are extremely unlikely to occur.
Permitting nurse practitioners to be prescribers isn’t a slippery slope, neither is decreasing the ready interval. There aren’t any ready intervals for sufferers who cease or by no means begin life-sustaining remedies.
Medical assist in dying has confirmed to be a secure, moral, and barely used possibility that advantages sufferers; horrible struggling ends, and a peaceable dying outcomes.
David Leven
Government Director
Finish of Life Selections NY
Pelham
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