To the editor:
Your opinion page double play on Jan. 25 thumping U.S. President Donald Trump sure super-charged my own dismay that our southern neighbour so glaringly fumbled in scoring for Trump after voting two four-year terms to their first African-American president, Barack Obama. Dopey voters and a crazy turnaround, I thought, and this comes from a former American who had served two years in the U.S. Army and was a newspaper journalist who immigrated to Canada in 1964 with his late Canadian wife and seven years later became a citizen in what I feel is the ·É´Ç°ù±ô»å91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s greatest country.
Reinforcing and abutting the words was an editorial cartoon showing an angry-faced woman holding a °Â´Ç³¾±ð²Ô91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s March sign and blowing the Trump character onto the ground.
That cartoon strongly reinforced the 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵœi²Ô³¦°ù±ð»å¾±²ú±ô±ð91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ sight of roughly 600 women, men, and children in Kelowna standing together Jan. 21 as (one of) the single largest protests ever in Kelowna.
As for your words that °Õ°ù³Ü³¾±è91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s reaction to the estimated crowd sizes during the global ·É´Ç³¾±ð²Ô91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s marches, that was 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵœj³Ü²õ³Ù the latest example of °Õ°ù³Ü³¾±è91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s thin skin when it comes to criticism or disagreement.91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ
From this retired journalists reading and TV observations, Trump has a monstrously huge ego, virtually unmatched worldwide. This so-called national leader behaves like a spoiled child who believes the world revolves around him alone.
Trump is out of whack with that ancient Roman philosopher °ä¾±³¦±ð°ù´Ç91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s urging of 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵœt³ó±ð higher we are placed, the more humbly we should ·É²¹±ô°ì91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ
Remember, though, our southern neighbours elected him and probably will bear the consequences perhaps even more than us.
Heaven help the Americans 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ”a²Ô»å Trump.
Wally Dennison, Kelowna