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Cincinnati’s mayor was just trash talking Travis Kelce for dissing their famous chili | Opinion

Just a joke

Dear Star editorial board: Please don’t take yourselves, or a simple chest-puffing sports spat, too seriously. No paternity test for Patrick Mahomes is really needed. Cincinnati’s mayor was being a cocky bugger saying Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow might be Mahomes’ father — and he took Travis Kelce’s retorts back in good-sport form. (Jan. 31, 7A, “Cincinnati’s mayor owes Mahomes a big apology”)

Remember, Kelce — who played college ball in Cincy — lambasted the city’s famous chili. That’s a heritage food. Imagine if Kansas City soccer fans were to rip a cherished dish from a country in the World Cup in 2026 before the players arrive in town. Yikes. Now that would command some real apologies.

- Jason Michael Franchuk, Carbondale, Illinois

Childish taunt

I find it amazing that Whoopi Goldberg is so childish and disrespectful on the talk show “The View.” For the last few years, she has referred to Donald Trump as “You Know Who.” Goldberg is filled with such contempt for Trump that she refuses to call him by his name.

Imagine if someone else on “The View” referred to Barack Obama as “What’s His Name.” There would be an immediate outcry of racism and extreme rudeness. She should call President Joe Biden, who is always hiding from reporters’ questions, “That Guy in the White House.”

Since Goldberg is a comedian, maybe she is paying homage and reenacting the famous Abbott and Costello routine. Just imagine her saying: “I can’t stand ‘You Know Who’ but I sure love ‘What’s His Name’ and I definitely will be voting for ‘That Guy in the White House’ in 2024.”

- Steve Shaw, Kansas City

The right thing

To Missouri’s members of Congress:

As a citizen, a voter and a taxpayer, I want you to call for Rep. “George Santos” to resign. I use quotation marks because I am by no means sure of his real name.

I am deeply disappointed that you have not already acted on your own volition. I don’t like what your inaction suggests about your priorities. Your call needs to be loud, clear, unequivocal and repeated until he is uprooted and cast out into the street.

It’s about integrity. He’s a complete embarrassment to our nation, Congress and the voters he duped into voting for him. We don’t need con men in Congress. We have enough “characters.” Now we need people with character to stand and be the grownups. We need and want intelligent, honest, forthright people to do the people’s business.

Do the right thing. Call for “George Santos” to resign. The longer you refuse to act, the less character you display.

I will thank you if and when you take action.

- William D. Grotts, Kansas City

Stay safely

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Please have fun in Arizona and stay safe.

- Naba Banerjee, Airbnb Director of Trust, San Francisco