The sneering and mocking of Trump

Sir — What was so refreshing about the inauguration of President Donald Trump last week was the role undertaken by the various religious leaders who attended.

The respect and reverence afforded to them with their messages and prayers of support and goodwill was extremely uplifting and hopeful.

Unfortunately, but not surprising, no mainstream newspapers mentioned this aspect at all. No instead, people, whose arrogance and conceit knows no bounds, were too busy sneering and mocking Mr Trump and indeed his family. Even our so-called celebrities and artists — ‘our great moral saviours’ — assisted by our national broadcaster could not resist joining their American equivalents in the aforementioned. They are blind to the fact that Mr Trump was democratically elected by winning 60pc of the 51 States but these people do not agree with democracy when they don’t get the result they want. How revealing.

I enjoyed Mr Trump’s amazing triumph mainly because it was a body blow to media and celebrity influence, extreme feminism, and political correctness. For far too long we have also endured these influences to our detriment. The media was instrumental in changing the course of history in two of our Presidential elections resulting in Mary Robinson and Michael D Higgins being elected. Unfortunately, our electorate appears to be easily swayed by such forces and fails to distinguish speculation and emotion from truth and reason.

However, there is hope because the American people have finally seen through these toxic influences which have brought disorder on their country. Now order is being restored. This is why we are seeing such juvenile and pathetic tantrums from so many journalists and celebrities which initially was so entertaining but has now become tiresome. This is not all about Mr Trump winning and them losing.

No, it goes a lot deeper than this and they know it. They realise that their reign is now over in thinking that they could continue to shape our society into their unprincipled sad, hopeless, immoral and disordered liberal image.

We now need a similar fresh movement in Ireland which is separate from Fine Gael or Fianna Fail as they cannot deliver the necessary backbone, order, principle, standard and respect.

John Burke, Clontarf, Dublin 3