The truth about Trump

I have been reading the Herald for decades and never have I come across a time when I have seen so many one-sided opinionpiece articles that have been cherrypicked from the US media and then have New Zealand’s low-band-width, threeminute journalists writing out of their home office jump on the bandwagon and rearrange the words to fit their own Kiwi vernacular and repeat the same thing over and over, fear, hate, fear, hate.

These small minds only focus on themselves and their hurt feelings from an overly aggressive and sometimes outof-control election campaign that was stoked from both sides.

These people tout themselves as intellects which couldn’t be further from the truth. They only see Trump endorsing hate and prejudice at the American populace and are blinded by a few very poor and indefensible moments by Trump during campaigning. Many other moments were in defence of very harsh critics who just don’t like the cut of his big business bombastic jib.

If they had ever bothered to look at the bigger picture, they might have realised that a world where the leaders of the two main nuclear powers get along is a damn sight better than a continuation of Obama’s Russophobic policies. These were starting to look seriously deluded and leading the world into a dark place, take Obama’s decision to send troops into Poland, a totally unnecessary risk and a last-minute dig at Putin, a hit-and-run. What does this tell us about Obama.

It seems the left don’t mind mushroom clouds as long as it’s not intended to hurt anyone’s feelings. The world has always been asymmetrical and Obama’s inability to adapt to that and just preach from the higher ground was never going to pay off although for the first five minutes it looked as though it might. Jared Baker, Orakei.