Dear Sir,

Taking back America. Making America great again. These are phrases we have heard over and over, and so many times before that they have now become most ridiculously hilarious.

I know that I will be getting some pushback on what I am about to say, but I cannot help but express myself about the out-of-control charade I see going on across the pond.

Despite Donald Trump trying very hard to contain his true self, it is clearly obvious to most logically thinking people that his racist inner self is oozing out through the pores of his skin — uncontrollably like a poisonous gas stinking up the air.

Do you want to know what I believe Trump means by “making America great again”? Most, like myself, have been hearing for many years now how the growth of the Hispanic community in America in the next few decades will have outpaced just about all other ethnic groups. Of course, this has sent a shiver up and down the spines of those in the white supremacist and KKK communities.

It has been obvious to most that the phrase “draining the swamp” actually meant ridding America of as many minority ethnic groups as he possibly can, while using his power to block as many of those same people as he can from coming into the United States.

I remember sitting at home one night watching the CBS Evening News when Trump appeared with about ten or 12 grey-haired white men, all middle-aged and up. I then thought for a moment, all they needed was to be dressed up in Confederate military uniforms and that picture would have been complete.

Mr Editor, with all the things that he has been accused of and, based on the high degree of his evasive behaviour, this man is as guilty as hell. I don’t believe he believes he’s capable of telling the truth, since he is so quick to contradict himself.

As for this taking America back nonsense, as a little boy growing up, I can still remember the days when my mates and I used to go to the movies at the old colonial opera house. I used to like those old western movies where we used to jump for joy and take delight when the cowboys got the upper hand over the Indians.

Mr Editor, I did not know any better back then, since I was too young to know and had no real insight into the facts of American history.

That whole statement about taking America back rings very empty and hollow to me. I ask the question, when are you going to give it back to the people from whom you stole it? That’s the real question. I don’t think that the Indians sent anyone begging for Europeans to come to America to help rape, plunder and kill them off.

Mr Editor, as I have told you before, I do not uphold or celebrate the likes of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Henry Hudson or any of those other European explorers at all. I simply see them as nothing more than a bunch of cold-blooded murderers, rapists and thieves who should be locked up as criminals.

I don’t want the American people of today to think that I have beef against them; it’s just that we need to realise that the history that Europeans stand on in the Western world was built on lies and deceit, followed by brutal oppression and murder, all carried out under the banner of civilisation and Christianity — the same old-time philosophy and ideals we like to embrace and follow even today.

Yet at the same time, the forefathers of modern America have stripped the Native Americans of their pride and have relegated them on reservations where there are nothing more than dust bowls in the wastelands of America.

But guess what, Mr Editor. I had this nightmare that Trump had appeared on the White House lawn dressed as the grandmaster of the KKK with David Duke by his side as Vice-President dressed in a Confederate uniform.

My, what a frightening scenario.

E. McNEIL STOVELL

Pembroke