Give Trump some credit

THE constant denigrating of President Trump is getting tiresome. Philip O’Neill (Letters, Irish Independent, September 15) takes it upon himself from his home in England to lecture us on what our reaction to a visit from the president should be. He refers to his ‘antiimmigrant populism’ while overlooking the fact Obama deported more people than any other president.

Regarding his ‘denigration of the press’, this is hardly surprising as, if the

press had its way, he would not have been elected.

Interestingly enough, your columnist Gerard O’Regan recently opined that ‘for once Trump might just be right about the fake news spun against him’ and, as Ian O’Doherty pointed out, ‘far from cancelling Irish visas, as was widely predicted if Trump won, the allocation of student visas, for instance, was actually increased by 2,600 last year’.

All this criticising of President Trump stands in stark contrast to the overlooking of failures of many US presidents, especially Clinton’s lying to the American people on TV about his relationship with a young intern, and the dreadful havoc wrought on the Iraqi people in the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction.

Surely all this opposition to President Trump is based on more than his nonacceptance of the PC agenda and his actually seeking to adhere to his pre-election promises?

Or is it because he is seeking to row

back on the godless and valueless society that is so evident today, and is certainly not leading to the happiness it promises?

Either way, he surely deserves acknowledgement of the positives of his tenure to date, as well as the negatives, as should be the norm in any democratic society.

Mary Stewart

Ardeskin, Donegal