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Letters

In his Christmas message to the troops, President Donald Trump declared: “It's a disgrace”, as he chastised the Democrats for not giving him his wall (that most Americans do not want), saying drugs and bad people are coming into this country (while offering no proof), and that the stock market plunge is also their fault, and that the Federal Reserve is hurting our economy and the Democrats are preparing to harass him.
I, for one, hope he doesn't get his wall and the Democrats would do well to stay on his case until he either resigns or is impeached for his outlandish behaviour and for lying virtually every day (“How many lies did Trump tell in 2018?”, December 31).
How the Fed and Trump can save the world economy in 2019


The reality is, I truly believe, Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing and that, in my book, makes him very dangerous. Look in the mirror, Mr President, and see the real disgrace. 
Herb Stark, North Carolina


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If Trump wants to see a real ‘disgrace’, he should look in the mirror

Then president-elect Donald Trump with 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney, in New Jersey in November 2016. Romney savaged Trump’s leadership in a Washington Post op-ed on New Year’s Day 2019, saying he “has not risen to the mantle of the office”, though he did praise Trump’s tax policies, stance on China and support for conservative judges. Photo: AFP

Why Donald Trump’s exit from Syria is another lesson for Asia in trusting the US

President Donald Trump listens to former defence secretary James Mattis, who quit after the president abruptly announced the withdrawal of troops from Syria. Photo: The Washington Post

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 19, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (R) and Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS, Brett McGurk (L), listen to questions from reporters during a Pentagon briefing in Washington, DC. - McGurk has resigned, a US State Department official said December 22, 2018. His resignation, effective December 31, comes just after US President Donald Trump abruptly ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Syria as well as the announcement that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was quitting, citing key disagreements with the US president. Just last week McGurk said "nobody is declaring a mission accomplished" in the battle against IS -- days before the president's stunning announcement of victory against the jihadist movement. (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

China's President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) during their meeting in Beijing on October 26, 2018. (Photo by JAPAN POOL VIA JIJI PRESS / JIJI PRESS / AFP) / Japan OUT

In this April 4, 2018 photo, a U.S. soldier stands in a newly installed position near the front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria has rattled Washington's Kurdish allies, who are its most reliable partner in Syria and among the most effective ground forces battling the Islamic State group. Kurds in northern Syria said commanders and fighters met into the night, discussing their response to the surprise announcement Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Photo: AP

President of Cambodia Lon Nol walks with his wife as she wipes the tears from her eyes during his departure from Phnom Penh, April 1, 1975. The Marshal told the nation in a pre-taped radio adress shortly after his departure that he would return to cambodia when his health permitted and the country needed his presence. UPI PHOTO

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2018, file photo, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ride in a car during a parade through a street in Pyongyang, North Korea. A senior South Korean official says Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, it's unlikely that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Seoul this month. After a September summit in Pyongyang, Kim and South Korean President Moon agreed on Kim's return visit to Seoul "in the near future." Moon later said that Kim would come "within this year." (Pyongyang Press Corps Pool via AP, File)

Khmer Rouge soldiers carrying automatic weapons and grenade launchers enter Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 17, 1975. Days earlier the U.S. backed government of Lon Nol had fled along with U.S. embassy staff. (AP Photo/Documentation Center of Cambodia)

Opinion


The US president has blamed everything and everyone else – from the Democrats to the Federal Reserve – for the problems he has caused



The US president has blamed everything and everyone else – from the Democrats to the Federal Reserve – for the problems he has caused.


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.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} The US president has blamed everything and everyone else – from the Democrats to the Federal Reserve – for the problems he has caused

The US president has blamed everything and everyone else – from the Democrats to the Federal Reserve – for the problems he has caused