Differences are clear

A recent letter to the editor entitled "Apply standards for Obama to Trump " cries out for an opposing view. The March 4 submission equated severe negative characteristics and commentary relative to Mr. Trump to Mr. Obama as if they were interchangeable. Anti-Trump letters were depicted as unfair in that they refused to see that their horrid descriptions of the president might be equally true of Obama. The author exclaimed, "I'd like future anti-Trump writers to kindly explain how their complaints about him differ from what his predecessor did."

The answer is in the directive. The answer is in the glaring character difference between the two men. The answer is more about who these men are as humans and not so much about policy differences. Critical descriptions offered by cited Daily Herald letter writers are based on what they have actually seen Trump say and do (public behavior and actions).

Dating before, during the campaign or as president, he has called most women pigs, has boasted that he can get away with grabbing women by their genitalia, claimed that Mexicans are thugs and rapists, said that John McCain is not a war hero, has mercilessly made fun of a disabled news reporter with cerebral palsy, has bragged that he knows more than the generals and can comprehend better than anyone, and has, in wholesale fashion, lied repeatedly without remorse to us all, etc., etc.

Most recently, in reference to the Florida school shooting, he has proclaimed that, "school security guards don't love the students." In my 38-year public school career, I have worked in over 150 schools and got to know countless security guards. They know and are very found of the students they protect. Indeed, the behavior and rhetoric of Obama and Trump are so different - thank goodness.

Larry J. Powitz

Arlington Heights