Trump’s March for Life support overlooked

This past week, US President Donald Trump addressed a six-figure crowd from the steps of the White House expressing his administration’s wholehearted support for the nationwide annual March for Life rallies. Surprise, surprise: Neither The Press nor its copycat stablemate

The Dominion Post saw fit to report about it – not even one measly paragraph.

On the other hand, said newspapers have been quick off the mark in allocating the so-labelled Women’s March seven columns of commentary, topped off with a coloured photograph of pink-hat placard-carrying protestors flaunting an all-too-obvious message. No prizes for guessing who (and what) Fairfax Media roots for. John Shone Havelock

Others had free pass too

John Waldron wonders why when everyone else involved in handling nuclear weapons has to pass a psychological test, President Trump gets a free pass (Letters, Jan 22). He worries that Trump can push the big red button and annihilate mankind. This is a valid point. However, the same could have been said of presidents Barak Obama and Bill Clinton. Presumably Mr Waldron was happy with that though. So if it was good enough for them, it’s good enough for Trump. Joe Fone Spreydon

North and South

The Democrat shutdown of US government spending resulted in a statement deploring this tactic and with the president referring on Twitter to ‘‘the very dangerous southern border’’. I take this as a reference to the extremely high likelihood of Mexico launching a nuclear attack to regain control of the state of Texas? Vic Smith Halswell