Stop worrying about Donald Trump – he’s not our problem

UNTIL I read the letters to the editor in Monday’s Gold Coast

Bulletin, I had no idea that the President of the United States had personally appointed a US special envoy to Tweed Heads.

However, after reading Ms Maureen Beach’s long and impassioned defence of Donald Trump’s presidency, it was clear to me that the Bald Eagle had truly landed right in the middle of Tweed Heads itself.

My Lord, I have to say that woman had an insight into President Trump’s efforts to “Make America Great Again” that few ordinary Gold Coasters could even begin to comprehend. She knew everything there was to know about those backsliding, slippery, European NATO types, those treacherous US Democrats and how “The Donald” had sorted out Teresa May’s Brexit troubles.

She even had the low down dirt on Hillary Clinton and that uppity Obama fellow. You have to watch an awful lot of Fox and Sky news to get that sort of highlevel info.

She even threw in a bit of serious personal advice for the Commander in Chief himself, telling him to keep his chin up and to hunt down the bad mouthers and naysayers. No doubt she has already forwarded a communique outlining her thoughts to the White House itself.

However, while the geopolitical tweets, pronouncements and comings and goings of President Donald are a source of considerable fascination to much of the world, and ultimately may have a profound effect on us all at some point, I am of the mind that it is not something that we Aussies have any great influence over, except though the feeble representations of our own elected government.

Also given that our Prime Minister and Foreign Minister appear to routinely recoil in horror over the efforts of Mr Trump, I suspect that I too should be as concerned as they, and so many other world leaders about his presidency.

None the less while Ms Beach clearly has an undying love for the stars and stripes and unflinching loyalty to her beloved president, too many of us Aussies have bigger fish to fry as we have more than enough drama keeping track of our very own wild, wooly and robust democratic circus.

So I can only graciously decline Ms Beach’s invitation to get excited and engaged about President Donald Trump and his galaxy of alleged achievements, and point out to her that as fascinating as both the United States and Donald Trump are, they are also: Not my country.

Not my president.

Not my problem.

P N DOUGHERTY, BURLEIGH HEADS