Donald Trump is President-elect – this is the ‘will of the people’
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The answers may be elusive, but would Christian values, including dialogue and discussion, based on respect, and consideration for each other, be a starting point?
At his inauguration President-elect Trump will start his term of office with the basics, and swear an oath on the Bible. Let us pray he remembers Nebuchadnezzar’s dream.
Stan Snowdon
Macclesfield
I woke up with sad news as if someone had died. How could a civilised nation go uncivil? How could Americans with sane minds trust a belligerent man like Trump who hates everyone who isn’t white? What did you just do, oh America?
I have never felt worried and sad as I did today. I thought people were going to act with some civility and sanity and vote with their minds and intellect.
I am not a diehard supporter of Hillary. My motto was anyone but Trump. Anyone but a man filled with anger and hate.
May God save us all.
It will certainly be four years of turbulence and uncertainty. How could anyone trust a man with such temperament?
I would be terrified if I was living in America today.
He will certainly make America un-great again.
Let us hope and pray.
Abubakar Kasim
Toronto
At last... a real chance for Nigel to “Get His Life Back”. Could he now relocate to America and use his expertise in helping to build The Wall?
There has to be a glimmer of hope in these gloomy times. Doesn’t there?!
Sue Breadner
Douglas
So Hillary Clinton has conceded and Donald Trump has won. He will be the Commander-in-Chief and have his finger on the nuke button. I have wrapped up all my Christmas presents and am distributing them now – before it is too late!
Barbara MacArthur
Cardiff
First Brexit, now Trump. “The will of the people” is very clear. Will the last person out please turn off the lights?
Richard Walker
Malvern
At least this means we can look forward to President Lisa Simpson in 2020...
Mike Wright
Nuneaton
The death of democracy
Buried in mounds of money and publicity.
Twisted by lies, false promises and duplicity.
Manipulated and corrupted
By power seeking men –
By whom all truth is twisted and distorted.
Liberty, equality and fraternity
All sacrificed by evil men inciting fear and hatred
And a frenzy of “mob rule” within society.
The dates of the deaths of democracy
Are etched in the tablets of our history.
31 October 1922,
30 January 1933,
24 June 2016
And 11 November 2016,
The dates when “mob rule”
Infected our societies
And destroyed our fragile democracies.
Martin Deighton
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