Kennedy scion trolls and more: Letters to the Editor Feb. 16, 2025

Kennedy trollsI can only imagine how President John F.Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis would be sickened by their foul-mouthed, spoiled brat of a grandson, Jack Schlossberg (“Kennedys’ heir-head,” Feb.

7).The disgraceful way he targets both relatives and outsiders shows just how far we’ve fallen from the Camelot days.(Though his mother isn’t exactly blameless either.) All he’s demonstrating is how desperately he wants to be relevant.Perhaps he should go back and watch some of his grandfather’s and uncle’s speeches to understand what they were really about.

How lucky we are that he deleted his social media.Betsy Flor, Putnam ValleyChairman TrumpOf all the things that our rampaging president is doing to unalterably and negatively change our country, one of the most absurd has to be his takeover of the magnificent Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (“Quitting Kennedy Center,” Feb.14).President Trump is a man who has never demonstrated an appreciation for art and culture.

His interest lies largely in sports, especially boxing.How long will it be before the venerable institution is renamed Donald J.Trump Center for the Performing Arts?Who will receive the once-prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in the future: Hulk Hogan or Mike Tyson, perhaps?Oren Spiegler, Peters Township, Pa.Transplant realityRefusing to implant a donor heart in an unvaccinated patient is based on science (“How Heartless!” Feb.

13).Recipients of heart transplants receive immunosuppressive drugs to lessen the risk of organ rejection.These drugs increase the risk of infections, including influenza and COVID, which can be fatal.

What’s truly heartless is losing a transplant recipient — and the donated organ — to a preventable illness, while 3,500 Americans on the transplant list await the life-sustaining gift of a new heart.Mel Young, Boca Raton, Fla.Dim-light decisionIt no longer shocks me to see “sane-washing” articles in many mainstream newspapers (“Trump t...