To the editor:
Your opinion page double play on Jan. 25 thumping U.S. President Donald Trump sure super-charged my own dismay that our southern neighbour so glaringly fumbled in scoring for Trump after voting two four-year terms to their first African-American president, Barack Obama. Dopey voters and a crazy turnaround, I thought, and this comes from a former American who had served two years in the U.S. Army and was a newspaper journalist who immigrated to Canada in 1964 with his late Canadian wife and seven years later became a citizen in what I feel is the 飞辞谤濒诲鈥檚 greatest country.
Reinforcing and abutting the words was an editorial cartoon showing an angry-faced woman holding a 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 March sign and blowing the Trump character onto the ground.
That cartoon strongly reinforced the 鈥渋苍肠谤别诲颈产濒别鈥� sight of roughly 600 women, men, and children in 麻豆精选 standing together Jan. 21 as (one of) the single largest protests ever in 麻豆精选.
As for your words that 罢谤耻尘辫鈥檚 reaction to the estimated crowd sizes during the global 飞辞尘别苍鈥檚 marches, that was 鈥渏耻蝉迟 the latest example of 罢谤耻尘辫鈥檚 thin skin when it comes to criticism or disagreement.鈥�
From this retired journalists reading and TV observations, Trump has a monstrously huge ego, virtually unmatched worldwide. This so-called national leader behaves like a spoiled child who believes the world revolves around him alone.
Trump is out of whack with that ancient Roman philosopher 颁颈肠别谤辞鈥檚 urging of 鈥渢丑别 higher we are placed, the more humbly we should 飞补濒办鈥�
Remember, though, our southern neighbours elected him and probably will bear the consequences perhaps even more than us.
Heaven help the Americans 鈥攁苍诲 Trump.
Wally Dennison, 麻豆精选
