Thank you, Donald
You can’t say Rosenberg didn’t warn you.
As far back as February I was telling people here in New Zealand that Americans were so fearful, so gullible and yes, so bloody ignorant, that the loud, lying, loathsome lout stood a darn good chance of being elected to the world’s most powerful position. (And being this is America we’re talking, wouldn’t even need a majority to do so.)
Your response? You scoffed. Americans are smart people, you said. After all, they’re forever coming up with new toys to keep us amused, you said. And look at the celebs they continually send here, enabling us to fork over wee fortunes to watch them perform from seats a mere hundred meters shy of the stage. For sure, you said, those stalwart Yanks, who saved our bacon in WWII, wouldn’t permit such a debacle as Trump to happen. Eh? Eh?
Despite my own prediction, I was knocked for a loop by the result. I’d flown home from a brief visit to the States on election day, and helped along by a heavy dose of jetlag crawled into bed, pulled the covers over my head, intending to mourn forever the death of humanity’s good sense and compassion.
Then of a moment, no conscious thought, I got up and like the 97 pound weakling who got sand kicked in his face by the bully, made a pledge to use this despicable clod and his awful minions as cause to become the best me possible.
I booted up my computer, and after deleting a dozen emails from American acquaintances clamoring for help obtaining NZ sanctuary (serves you right, stupid!), began furiously composing my own response to president buffoon.
My new book, “The Day The World Went Completely Mad”, is a personal antidote to the Trump catastrophe. It will be available early next year, and once again all money received will go to help former local café owner Amanda Lowry, who became permanently invalided as result of a surfing accident three years back.
Thank you for the inspiration, Donald.
Barry Rosenberg
Note: Barry’s previous four books can be downloaded free at his website www.barryrosenberg.net
