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Letter: Many tweets but no ‘truth’ in sight

FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump turns to talk to the gathered media during a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the mIlitary at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. President Donald Trump is criticizing the U.S. Postal Service, saying the agency is “losing many billions of dollars a year” and asking why it is “charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages.” Trump tweeted Friday, Dec. 29, that the post office “should be charging MUCH MORE!” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

I agree with Deanna Browning (“Trump’s Tweets,” Jan. 8) that our president sends his points of view out to the nation via his tweets. I do not agree with her calling those points of view “truth.”

Trump definitely lets us know of his biases against women, minorities, immigrants, the press, the poor and people who will be losing their health care. He lets us know of his hostility toward anyone who has a different lifestyle or who dares disagree with him. And he terrifies us by letting us know of his naive indifference to the genuine dangers of nuclear war that his childish rants escalate.

“Most of us” (Browning’s phrase), more than 70 percent by most polls — do in fact think him unprofessional and most of us would not even remotely call his tweets “truth.”

Sharon Rishe, Millcreek