There are alternative views of Trump, of course

Strange days, methinks. They persist with pointing out Trump’s domestic financial achievements, a process that began with Obama intervening to address the severity of the 2008 economic implosion.
Apparently, having a minority approval rating is something that invites froth and capering much akin to arranging deckchairs on the Titanic, the better to ogle icebergs in their pristine majesty. 
We are informed that the dilettante Trump has the measure of Xi Jinping, a de facto dictator busily festooning the South China Sea with military installations, a provocation that compromises the US’ presence in the area, and with it Trump’s allies in the region. Nice one. 
In wider appreciation of Trump’s international successes, moreover, The Donald comprehensively outfoxed Vladimir Putin and the podgy Kim Jong-un. The former continues apace with his clandestine external adventures, as Microsoft and the US intelligence community tell us, for example. And the latter is immediately ceasing all and every activity relating to his nuclear weapons programmes, of course. 
Wow, I am truly impressed. In the real world however, Trump the archetypal “great statesman” finds himself facing a growing number of Helsinki Moments, both within and without. Not content with alienating America’s traditional allies and driving a coach and horses through the Atlantic alliance, he boasts yet more faux foreign-policy successes worthy of a self-styled stable genius. 
I could, naturally, continue to itemise the growing list of Trump’s staggering accomplishments, but alas the parameters of this newspaper’s Letters page forfend.
The latest backdrop to all of these shenanigans, I observe, is the tragedy that is John McCain, a man with not one bone spur in sight, a brave patriot who put his neck on the line for his country. A man, we contemplate, whose only “sin” was allowing himself to be captured by the then enemy, yet who is now fighting for his life. At time of writing, we may further note that not one word of sympathy comes from the White House. That says it all for me.
Dr Frank
Bangkok