Quote Originally Posted by ancientpie View Post
I will leave the Trump loving/hating to the Americans,you know the people who actually live there & witness what is happening with their own eyes, i do of course realise that they lack the insight & knowledge of some on here (one of whom actually knows an American apparently) but obviously this is just another thread designed to give the same old posters something to argue about.
The Americans are certainly welcome to love or hate Trump, so are we. Americans though, those "...who actually live there & witness what is happening with their own eyes..." are bombarded with many news channels and they can take their pick of which to believe. The most popular and Trump's favourite seems to be Fox News which is the visual equivalent of a cross between our Daily Mail and The Beano and is laughably derided by foreign mainstream media as "fake news" as I believe Trump likes to call reports he doesn't like.

In a world of instant news reporting there is no reason to believe that someone living in another country, America, for instance, has a better and fuller knowledge of his nation's situation than somebody in, say, Nottingham, even using their own eyes. An interested spectator in a London newsroom using his own eyes, has a much better informed view of American problems than a Louisiana hill-billy or a Tennessee ploughboy who takes the moonstruck ravings of Donald Trump seriously.