Dear Sir,

The more I watch the CBS and ABC news, the more frightening America appears under the strange and fearful leadership of Donald Trump as president.

Sir, it has been almost a year now since Trump has been elected to the White House and for the life of me I am still trying to understand what happened to the intelligent mindset in America to allow themselves to have elected such a person with absolutely no apparent diplomatic skills whatsoever. Based on how he uses Twitter, he doesn’t appear to be very educated or intelligent.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but the more I see Trump, the more I see the essences of racism just oozing through the pores of his flesh.

It seems to me that he is hellbent and obsessed with totally overturning just about everything that Barack Obama did, and if you don’t mind me saying, it seems as if it is just because he was a black man.

He has proven that he cannot be trusted: he says one thing out of one side of his mouth one moment while later he is saying something else out of the other side of his mouth, which contradicts what he had said just a few moments ago.

It should be clear to the world that this man supports the racist agenda in America, and they are not afraid to flex their muscle when ready. It is my belief that the white extremists in the United States have just about infiltrated the police, the FBI, all branches of the military and civil services. And when they are good and ready, one day they are going to cause great havoc to the running of America.

The reason why Trump managed to win the White House was because the people of America were tired of the same old thing going on in Washington. No doubt, the need for change was in order, but Trump on the other hand has shown to the people that he is an outsider and is intended to bring change to Washington that would drive a wedge right down through the middle of America.

The problem with the type of changes that Trump brings to Washington is not only going to be bad for America, but it is also going to be bad for the rest of the world as well.

I believe that people should learn from history. There is time when it seems that because certain emotions run high in a country for change, it is quite possible that people would not knowingly elect a tyrant to power on the grounds that he pushed all the right buttons, and said all the right things to convince them that he was not just the right man for the job but the perfect man for the job.

That, by the way, was just how Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in the 1930s, and it took a little while before he sprang his true intentions on the people.

Sir, I will not be surprised if Trump does not appear on the White House lawn one of these bright sunny days dressed in a KKK outfit, with David Duke and the likes standing by his side.

Until the people of America decide to remove what I see as a destabilising factor in the White House, all of us living in the rest of the world will truly be living in very dangerous times.

E. McNEIL STOVELL

Pembroke/b