It has been said that America’s president, Donald Trump, is living in an echo chamber bubble where different or competing views are censored or disallowed. In Donald’s echo chamber, he only listens to people who he agrees with. The most powerful man in the world, with his finger on the nuclear button, has created the world’s most powerful echo chamber bubble in the White House. He refuses to speak to people who he does not agree with and has barred some news paper organisations from his White House Press meetings.
The person who has violated basic norms of international diplomacy; has elected individuals with no relevant experience for cabinet posts; is stirring up racial hatred and anti-semitism and is in a position to weild power over not only his own nation, but the world, is now refusing to listen to people he does not agree with and has barred reporters of certain newspapers from his White House press meetings. In a democratic country like the USA, is he right in doing so? If this is allowed to continue, the American democracy could soon turn into a dictatorship. Unless he is challenged, in a way similar to the US district judge who issued a temporary restrainiing order halting a ban imposed by him to restrict the travel to the US of people from several muslim countries, he may continue with his shenanigans to the peril of the rest of the world.
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
