Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments. It was saddening to watch the crowds of Donald Trump supporters gathered for the inauguration to joyfully proclaim that their president would ‘make America great again’ (Metro, Tue).
Not one of these unthinking people stopped to consider the question of when America stopped being great. Think of the Hollywood films, the jazz, the great writers such as Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, the space technology, the world-class medical research and the illustrious universities. These are but a few of the things that make America great, not some bigoted vulgarian playing to his constituents’ ignorance. Jules Stewart, London.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. ‘He’s not become the ruler of the whole world’. The media coverage of Donald Trump’s inauguration has been huge, and in fact ridiculously excessive. There needs to be a reality check here.
At the end of the day, he has been elected president of the US, a country thousands of miles away, which accounts for only around four per cent of the world’s population. He was actually only chosen by around half of those who decided to vote in the presidential election there.
