Your grocery prices not going down? Fake news! Your 401k losing value? Hoax! Tariffs causing car prices to soar? Witch hunt! War in Ukraine still going on? Another lie! Pete Hegseth disclosing attack plans on an unsecured chat group? Never happened! Lost your job due to DOGE leader Musk? Don’t believe it! America is great again! Don’t believe what you see! Just continue to watch the Fox Entertainment, er News Channel. And listen to Trump! They’ll tell you the real truth!

• Youngstown

Nuke fans should hurry up and contact Pete Hegseth on TikTok to be sure he gets you on the FaceTime call in list re: secret anti-nuke development talks with Iran.

• Canfield

Trump is nothing but a psycho felon liar. Our country was doing good and getting better with Biden. If people weren’t so stupid they would find the true facts instead of enabling a crazy con-man rapist . Everything Trump spews out of his mouth is a lie. Letting crazy druggie Musk do his dirty work. Crazy brain dead RFK Jr. fired the people in HHS that saved stupid Trump’s despicable life when he had COVID. Most of the GOP are traitors.

• Austintown

Is state Sen. Al Cutrona’s SB156 something that is essential to the public need? Will the Legislature next consider that it is more important to cultivate a taste for Beethoven rather than rock or jazz, for Rembrandt rather than a poster, for Keats rather than limericks and that one cannot be moral or happy without religion?

• Poland

Given the mess that our country seems to be in, though many love all of it, I wonder if the Republicans who have given up their souls for Trump go home at the end of the day and look in the mirror and ask themselves, “What in the Sam hill am I doing”? They certainly aren’t helping us, their constituents. We are losing our friends worldwide with this grab for power. Will no one stop Trump and his cult somehow?

• Liberty

Am I crazy to think that the fact a judge can shut down the president yet a judge cannot control Steward Health’s bankruptcy tactics in Warren and Sharon is NUTS?

• Girard

Foul play: the hens voted for the fox to guard the chicken coop. They felt they needed someone strong to protect them. Then, every few nights, another chicken mysteriously disappears from the coop. Some hens didn’t notice. Others wondered if their friends had gone on vacation. A few began to suspect the fox, but said nothing, not wanting to be called alarmists. Finally, no hens were left. The moral? NEVER make a criminal the new sheriff in town. HE’LL EAT YOU ALIVE!

• Austintown

Invade Greenland? Steal back the Panama Canal? Make Canada the 51st state? Throw 2 million Arabs out of Gaza and turn it into a second French Riviera, complete with Trump hotels and casinos? Has it occurred to any of you MAGA folks that your fearless leader has gone quite insane? Or have you cowboys all lost your minds too?

• Austintown

April Fool’s Day has passed, but Star Parker doesn’t know it. She compares the National Education Association to the KKK! Parker says “Shut down the Department of Education and send every child a $1,500 voucher to attend private school,” except the average tuition is $15,000 a year. A big part of the DOE is providing funding to special-needs students and providing access to schools for handicapped students. Free school lunches and transportation are also part of their mission. Shutting down the DOE and NEA will hurt low-income families the most. I suspect Parker is on the take.

• Youngstown

If President Trump is retaliating against foreign countries with his tariffs, why am I the one suffering? I will have to pay higher prices on many items. I will have to forgo the new car I planned to purchase. I will have to worry about my 401(k) that’s shrinking quickly. He promised lower prices. Instead, he’s on a power trip at our expense. He doesn’t care how his tariffs affect us. He says for us to just “hang tough” while he flies off to Mar-a-Lago to golf.

• Canfield

This Sunday’s Sound Off was a banner day for hate. I have two thoughts. One, Democrats love to hate. It’s in their DNA. Second, they can’t think for themselves. Without the power they feel entitled to, they are worthless. I’ve heard it said that to progressives (what a joke word) good intentions are all that matter. If anyone who wrote to the Sound off this Sunday had an intelligent thought, I didn’t see it.

• Canfield

Donald Trump has stated that our economy has “boomed”. Yes, I agree, “BOOM” the stock market lost 4,000 points in two days, “BOOM” my own 401(k) lost 12% in two days, “BOOM” prices for food, cars and electronics has soared! From the man who filed for bankruptcy six times so far, the biggest “BOOM” will be bankrupting America!

• Canfield

Law firms yielding to Donald Trumps extortion must ask themselves what they will do when the rule of law has been entirely usurped by dependence on the petty, puerile desires of a madman. No lawyers needed then. Better to take a chance on alleging extortion and denial of First Amendment rights now than to allow your voices to be ignored and reduced to irrelevancy then.

• Canfield

There’s an easy solution to the debacle of secret information transmitted over unsecured channels. Just have 47 think for a moment that the information was not classified and, voila, they’re not! Just like at Mar-a-Lago!. Sheesh.

• Canfield

We keep hearing “short term pain for long term gain.” Taking on extra workloads temporarily, packing lunches instead of buying, conserving electricity, eliminating frivolous purchases constitutes short-term pain. Firing productive essential workers and cutting food supplies to schools and families is simply cruel treatment of fellow human beings. There is no way you can spin taking away one’s ability to pay rent and buy food as a sacrifice for the common good. No decent lawmaker would allow this.

• Youngstown