Letters: Protest Trump at Penn - peacefully

ISSUE | CAMPAIGN 2016

Protest Trump at Penn - peacefully

I assume there will be protesters at the University of Pennsylvania on May 15, considering the expected presence of Donald Trump at the School of Arts and Science's commencement ceremonies ("Penn graduation will be long on top-tier statesmen," Tuesday). They should be there to acknowledge the threat to our country posed by Trump's presidential candidacy; his domestic policy of hatred toward African Americans, Hispanics, immigrants, and women; and his foreign policy, which consists of little more than bluster and "America First" slogans.

I hope the protesters will express themselves with their witness and their signs and avoid actions that will help Trump's campaign, such as blocking traffic, attacking police, and provoking Trump supporters. I would hope the inspiration of any protests will be, "What would Martin Luther King do?"

|Leonard Perlman, Philadelphia

Will GOP front-runner change his stripes?

Donald Trump supporters say they like the way he "tells it like it is." He doesn't lie. He's not politically correct. Now that Trump is beginning to adjust his focus to the general election, he's saying that the primary season was just a show to get attention - not what he really believes.

So much for "telling it like it is." What do you say now, Trump supporters? Were you duped?

|Sherry Milke, Harleysville

Trump won't have enough friends in Pa.

Those who claim that Donald Trump could put Pennsylvania in play in the fall ("GOP could finally be a Pa. force," April 27) should note that Hillary Clinton received more primary votes in the state (918,689) than did Trump (892,702).

With his xenophobic and misogynistic views, the only states that a Trump candidacy would put in play are some Republican-leaning ones in the South and Southwest.

|Bill Fanshel, Bryn Mawr, wfanshel@hotmail.com

Clinton's experience sets the bar

A letter was typical of the attacks on Hillary Clinton in asking, "What experience?" ("Then there were two," Thursday).

After a series of business bankruptcies, Trump wants to be trusted with the nation's top job, but he has never held elective office or a position in politics.

Clinton has developed experience over a long career in public service. She dealt with children's legal issues after law school. She developed a plan similar to the Affordable Care Act to make health insurance available, and some economists say we would have been better off with her plan. She was twice elected to the U.S. Senate in New York and is popular there. And she served four years as secretary of state.

The GOP candidates have done nothing to make health insurance available and have no foreign policy experience.

|Harry Thorn, Philadelphia