In response to Pam Halencak’s letter to the editor (Herald, Nov. 18) in which she salutes President Trump’s transparency through his use of Twitter, respectfully, I’d like to say that she is missing the point.
It seems to me that her interpretation of the criticism is misguided: Twitter is an excellent channel for communication. The criticism for the president’s use of it is not that he uses Twitter, but that he communicates through it like an impetuous child.
There is very often nothing presidential in his messages nor notably intelligent. His use of Twitter is not a good argument for transparency unless you believe that from his tweets it is transparent that the president is a childish, narcissistic, insensitive moron.
Ms. Halencak’s opinion that “the current administration is absolutely the most transparent of any in memory” due to his tweeting is, pardon me, lame.
In the words of the Sunlight Foundation, I agree with the following: “Whatever transparency the President of the United States is demonstrating by speaking directly to the public on Twitter is outweighed by his refusal to disclose and divest, undermined by the opacity of their authorship and weighted down by false claims and misleading assertions.”
T D Lake
Durango
