Trump’s foul mouth needs to be punished

The struggle against Trump’s racist policies must be intensified, writes

IMohamed Saeed

never really imagined that Americans will vote for a worse leader than warmonger George W Bush. US President Donald Trump’s recent vile, derogatory, xenophobic and racist remarks to describe some African, Haitians and Arab countries cannot be accepted and seem to surpass Bush’s rhetoric. With voicing their objections and criticising Trump’s garbage, global leaders, and es- pecially countries that have been targeted by Trump’s offensive comments, should do more to prevent the rubbish Trump spews.

The vulgar language that he used festers when ignorance and bigotry is aligned with power, supremacy and privilege.

Since World War II, the government of the US is manufacturing brutal wars all around the world resulting in displacement, poverty and unemployment – and Trump has the nerve to label countries whose populations are not white as “sh*tholes”. It was the colonial exploitation perpetrated mainly by Western countries such as the US that contributed, and are still contributing, to African and Middle Eastern financial, economic and political problems.

The comments should be effectively confronted using every channel to bring this ignorant and undignified president to account.

Using diplomatic channels and alternative intervention methods such as mobilising anti-racism institutions, the struggle against Trump’s racist and discrimination policies, his sycophant puppets and imperialism must be intensified.