EDITOR, The Tribune
Some Bahamians seemed to have been greatly annoyed that US President Donald Trump had been acquitted by the Senate in the Democratic Party’s impeachment trial in early February, which was nothing more than a witch hunt aimed at bypassing the votes of 63 million Americans who voted for the Republican Party standard bearer in 2016. The proceedings were initiated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic Party stakeholders, and was unanimously approved by Maxine Waters (D-California) and the Congressional Black Caucus. I believe that the record breaking seven million tourists who visited The Bahamas in 2019 is a result of the record low unemployment rate in the US.
With the unemployment rate among Hispanics and African Americans being 3.9 and 5.5 percent respectively, as of October 2019, the American people have more disposable income for leisure activities, such as taking an exotic vacations to The Bahamas. The Bahamas is benefiting from Trump’s economic policies. Bahamians have romanticised former US President Barack Obama’s presidency, apparently forgetting that he had eased travel restrictions on Cuba in 2016, which signalled that the Americans were planning on ending the decades old trade embargo on the communist country imposed by the John F Kennedy administration in 1962 - three years after Fidel Castro had toppled the military dictator Fulgencio Batista. The so-called US- Cuba thaw under Obama and Raul Castro was a clear and present danger to the interests of the Bahamian people from a touristic standpoint. With Dr Ben Carson, a distinguished African American neurosurgeon currently serving as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Trump Cabinet, Bahamians must dispel the Democratic Party’s worn out narrative of Trump being a racist.
There’s no ironclad evidence that Trump dislikes African Americans and other ethnic minorities. In December 2017 Trump told Bahamian ambassador to the US, Sidney Collie, that he loves The Bahamas. Trump demonstrated his love for Bahamians by coming to the rescue of Grand Bahamians and Abaconians after the devastating passage of Hurricane Dorian. Based on the striving economy in the US and the unprecedented prosperity within the Hispanic and African American communities, I wholeheartedly endorse Trump for 2020.
KEVIN EVANS
Grand Bahama,
March 2, 2020.
Comments
hrysippus 4 years, 1 month ago
what a bizarre series of assertions. It would seen that trump has still successfully hypnotized the religious right wing extremists.
joeblow 4 years, 1 month ago
If Minnis could accomplish a fraction of what Trump did regarding immigration, small business growth and actual unemployment, this country would be much better off!
tetelestai 4 years, 1 month ago
The immigration policy, including throwing children in cages and deportation -save for the wall nonsense- is an Obama policy, actually. Strange, but true. Unemployment decrease is a direct result of Obama (CNN, MSNBC, Department of Labor, have all empirically, i.e. with data, confirmed this). So, still not much for Trump to hype himself about. But, he sure loves his golf!
joeblow 4 years, 1 month ago
... I do believe Trump used the cages built by his predecessor and the immigration successes exceed simply stopping people at the border! !
The unemployment decrease is a direct result of removing Obama era regulations. If Obama could take credit for one thing it is giving Trump an opportunity to become a two term president!
Porcupine 4 years, 1 month ago
I am unable to understand the attraction of a human being to one of the most vile creatures on earth. For god's sake Kevin Evans. Have you lost your mind? Imagine, just for a moment what Martin Luther King Jr., or Jesus himself would say about Trump. You have, in your short idiotic letter, showed that morals, environmental justice, human rights and spirituality are all meaningless so long as The Bahamas prospers? I have started a list of people who are holding this country back, and a list of people moving this country forward. Mr. Evans, if I didn't know better, and I don't, it seems that you would abolish all scientific knowledge and put our collective fates in the hands of bible thumping ignorant brain dead leaders such as yourself. To support trump is to support lies, ignorance, self aggrandizement, and hubris. It is totally beyond my imagination what could possibly motivate a so-called Christian person to see trump as anything other than evil incarnate. Kevin, you need to seek help.
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Well_mudda_take_sic 4 years, 1 month ago
What the writer probably does not know is that Donald Trump's IQ was officially tested on two occasions while he was at the Citadel and his average score was 148. His daughter Ivanka's IQ was similarly tested while she attended Choate Rosemary Hall and she scored even higher than her father. The writer likely also does not know that Donald Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, was until her recent retirement a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (appointed by President Bill Clinton). She too was well known for her 'smarts' and had graduated near the top of her class at a first rate law school. Let's not forget too that Donald Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Business at UPenn, one of the world's leading business schools. Bottomline: A history of good family genes is just that and Donald Trump's ability as a novice politician to ascend to the US Presidency against all odds proves he was not deprived of his share. Minnis on the other hand is at the far end of the other side of the IQ spectrum - Village Dunce!
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