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TRUMP TALK NO LONGER FUNNY

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Donald Trump’s outrageous exaggerations and general bull, trolling, unprofessional, distasteful and certainly undiplomatic comments must stop.

The ongoing unwelcome pronouncements, his typical negotiating style of bluster and insults merely serve to illustrate his lack of fitness for the most powerful elected office on Earth. What agenda is he trying to advance — to/for whom?

Taking back the Panama Canal, controlling Greenland, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, annexing Canada using economic force. What’s next?

Notwithstanding his penchant for contemptuous comments intended to advance warped bargaining tactics, adversaries need to impress upon him that his tactics are merely purple nonsense.

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This excuse for a statesman is simply an average schoolyard bully. With Justin Trudeau’s pending resignation, Trump likely senses weakness in Canada. Au contraire. Trump has done more than ever in the past days to unite Canadians. Further, his outbursts are beyond being humorous any longer; they are becoming unsettling, if not outright dangerous.

Canada can no longer shrug off these attacks on our sovereignty as the jokes they are not. We must respond in equal or greater measure, even as far as cutting off energy as Doug Ford opined, or other “extreme” measures.

MIKE ALAIN
OTTAWA

TIME TO PULL TOGETHER

Between watching news programs and reading opinions of Sun journalists, it is perplexing to me that the media are still hell bent on blaming Justin Trudeau for the position we are in.

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We all know that Trudeau should have stepped away months ago, but that’s in the past, and now we should be looking at the threats that are being thrown around by a power hungry soon to be president of our southern neighbors.

This is the time party politics should be set aside and the elected people in our Parliament should pull together and put to rest the toxic rhetoric we are experiencing.

When we watch a country’s leader to be talking about using force to attain other countries we are witnessing history from 1930s Europe, and they thought then it was idealistic ranting, but we found out different. Make sure we don’t let this happen again.

LARRY MITCHELL
OTTAWA

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