I need to respond to your vitriolic anti-Trump rhetoric with some incontrovertible facts: • The NYSE index has gained 30% since the election of Trump; • Unemployment is down to a 17-year low at 4.1%, 0.7 of a point in the last year; • The unemployment rate of African-Americans is at 6.8%, the lowest since records began; • African-American women have the highest participation rate in the labour force (62%) of all female ethnicities; • The US economy will grow 3.2% and 3.5% in 2018, attributable in part to Trump’s tax cuts; • At least 45 countries have built or are building walls to secure their borders — the proposed wall between the US and Mexico is not exceptional; • Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem is logical since the Knesset, Supreme Court and many government departments, including that of the prime minister, have offices there; and • Support for Trump by African-Americans has doubled since his election. The boycott by our business representatives of Trump’s speech in Davos wa...
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