{"id":894619,"date":"2026-03-31T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/03\/31\/letter-trumps-record-so-far\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:04:02","slug":"letter-trumps-record-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/03\/31\/letter-trumps-record-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Trump&#8217;s record so far&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He promised to end the Ukrainian and Gaza conflicts in his first week; he couldn&rsquo;t. He promised not to start a war; he has. He promised not to get involved in foreign disputes; he has. His on and off tariff fiasco is confusing the economy. Inflation is rampant; the cost of living is soaring. He&rsquo;s trying to skew the voting system in favor of Republicans. Wants to disallow mail-in voting and insist on a voter ID which could eliminate millions of legal citizens. (because ones birth name may not correspond to ones voter registration name) The stock market is in free fall. He&rsquo;s de-funded medical research, humanitarian aid, and other vital government services. And he brags about how great he is and how well the country is doing.<\/p>\n<p>And there&rsquo;s three more years to go! What else are we in for I wonder?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Len. St.Clare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Mukilteo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He promised to end the Ukrainian and Gaza conflicts in his first week; he couldn&rsquo;t. He promised not to start a war; he has. He promised not to get involved in foreign disputes; he has. His on and off tariff fiasco is confusing the economy. Inflation is rampant; the cost of living is soaring. He&rsquo;s trying to skew the voting system in favor of Republicans. Wants to disallow mail-in voting and insist on a voter ID which could eliminate millions of legal citizens. (because ones birth name may not correspond to ones voter registration name) The stock market is in free fall. He&rsquo;s de-funded medical research, humanitarian aid, and other vital government services. And he brags about how great he is and how well the country is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3361,"featured_media":894620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/heraldnet.com\/2026\/03\/31\/letter-trumps-record-so-far\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Letter: Trump&#8217;s record so far&#8230;","url":"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/03\/31\/letter-trumps-record-so-far\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/03\/31\/letter-trumps-record-so-far\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/41937851_web1_260317-ADW-Letter_1.jpeg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/41937851_web1_260317-ADW-Letter_1.jpeg"},"articleSection":"Letters","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"none"}],"creator":["none"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"HeraldNet.com","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2026-03-31T08:30:00Z","datePublished":"2026-03-31T08:30:00Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T19:04:02Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Letter: Trump&#8217;s record so far&#8230;\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heraldnet.com\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/31\\\/letter-trumps-record-so-far\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heraldnet.com\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/31\\\/letter-trumps-record-so-far\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.heraldnet.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/8\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/41937851_web1_260317-ADW-Letter_1.jpeg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.heraldnet.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/8\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/41937851_web1_260317-ADW-Letter_1.jpeg\"},\"articleSection\":\"Letters\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"none\"}],\"creator\":[\"none\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"HeraldNet.com\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2026-03-31T08:30:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-31T08:30:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-31T19:04:02Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/heraldnet.com\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894621,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894619\/revisions\/894621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}