‘Megalomaniac’

Dear Editor:

It’s all about oil and ego.

Buy low, sell high, I don’t care how many die, could be President Donald Trump’s new motto. His ultimate plan, as I see it, is to use the world’s number one commodity, crude and refined oil, to take as much money as he can from the world’s population.

His theatrics throughout the war on Iran has sent the price of oil, down and way up, to buy and sell for huge profit at the stock market and the pumps benefitting himself and the extreme rich. He appears unconcerned with who or how many are hurt, left dead or destitute as a result. Even the people of the United States, those that elected him, are equally suffering (though he is president, I refrain from saying “his own country” in this respect, as I am still hopeful that Americans manage to reign him in before it is too late).

So far, from my perspective, President Donald Trump is not insane, he’s amoral. An opportunist; a megalomaniac savouring a perceived dominance (omnipotence) over the world, forcing his will.

He has been trying to bring the world to its knees, using the fear of force from a country with the largest military, and the rest of the world’s reliance on it’s economy. He has pompously been committing global terrorism, with illegal tariffs, threats of forced annexation of allied countries, kidnapping country leaders to manipulate their oil reserves, indiscriminately killing in Iran with even the claim of destruction of their entire civilization, and now a naval blockage to restrict oil coming to market from the Middle East, all to demand unrealistic concessions from the world. He has proven his threat of severe repercussions to any that defy him.

I regret the strain in the relationship with the people of the United States but we have to continue to unite with the rest of the world until they somehow manage to remove the threat of Donald Trump as president.

Paul Dunnill,
Fergus