Letters to the Editor | June 3, 2025

President Donald Trump continues to spew his Big Lie about the 2020 election being stolen. His MAGA supporters blindly agree with him because if their leader says the election was stolen, then it must be true. How far will this lie go? Unfortunately, Oklahoma’s public school history teachers are now mandated to teach this conspiracy theory. I feel sorry for them. While it is appropriate to discuss both sides of an issue and let students form their own opinions, this goes too far. The state superintendent of education is behind this travesty. What makes the mandate even worse is that he is a former history teacher. Administrators, school board members, teachers, and parents should protest. If this remains part of the curriculum, will the schools be required to teach the myriad of Trump’s other lies? Will other red states follow suit? I dread the possibility.

Richard Zanoni, Edgewater Park

The Compromise of 1850 bought the North a decade before the start of the Civil War. The least popular provision of the compromise was an enhanced Fugitive Slave Act. It allowed slave catchers to forcibly deputize northern authorities and civilians in the recapture of claimed runaways. The citizens of the free states resisted this law as it infringed their freedom of conscience and made them complicit in the return of Black people to slavery. The Montgomery County Commissioners’ refusal to allow county resources to be utilized in enforcement of Donald Trump’s deportation policies is a laudable principled stand.

Michael Burns, Cherry Hill

Bravo to columnist Trudy Rubin for once again making a personal trip to Ukraine to see what is happening there and to have firsthand conversations with people involved in many different aspects of the ongoing war with Russia. I recommend Rubin for secretary of state! Her many years of first-rate reporting and understanding of world affairs qualify her far above Marco Rubio and so many others in the current administration of our completely uninformed and unqualified so-called leader.

Elsbeth Wrigley, Wyndmoor

I urge you to employ your power of the press by refusing to cover President Donald Trump’s June 14 birthday military parade in Washington. To give space to this monstrous waste of taxpayer money is to legitimize Trump’s power and encourage him to continue the rape and pillage of our country. The many gatherings of concerned citizens that will be taking place in cities and communities around the country on that date deserve all the media coverage they can get. Please honor these protests by giving them prime space. If you must include a story about Trump’s latest power trip, I encourage you to use strategic placement. Put it in the Comics section. Maybe next to Doonesbury.

Jeron Ashford, Drexel Hill

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