A Canadian fan of Donald Trump

Re Trump’s angry band of Canadian fans: Hepburn, June 29

Bob Hepburn can go ahead and publish my name as a Canadian supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump. Shocking as it may seem to many Canadians, I support much of the Trump agenda.

If crude and rude behaviour should disqualify Trump from the U.S. presidency, then three quarters of the American presidents should have never been elected.

My support for the Trump agenda begins with his withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the useless Paris Agreement, and his belief that the majority of NATO countries, including Canada, have long shirked their financial obligations to fund their own collective self-defence.

I also support his time-limited immigration and travel restrictions from failed states in the Middle East and Africa. It is a necessary policy of selfdefence and well within the authority of the president. I believe the TrumpRussia collusion story is a fraud supported by liberals and the mainstream media who can’t believe they lost the election. I also think the resulting investigation into the alleged collusion to be a waste of time and resources. However, I wish that Trump would stay off Twitter and limit himself to press releases on current topics to avoid shooting himself in the foot. I also think that his plan to build a wall along the southern border is unnecessary when there are much cheaper ways of securing the border against drug and people smuggling.

Publish my name as a Trump supporter because I am not on Twitter or Facebook so the social-media mob rule will not bother me. I am also retired and will not face intimidation and harassment from my co-workers and employer for expressing my political views. If some friendships are strained or broken because of my support for the Trump agenda then so be it. My last piece of advice for Mr. Hepburn is that he ignore the polling information on Trump’s popularity. The polls were wrong during the presidential election and they are wrong now.