Irish Examiner View: Trump's bullying diminishes America

Most of the world has responded properly to Trump’s petulant dishonesty.

Trump’s bullying effort to distract Americans from his disastrously inept response to the crisis further diminishes America. Picture: Associated Press

US president Donald Trump’s supporters argue that swathes of the world excoriate him because they oppose him.

They are right — how could you not oppose and be appalled by a man who, at a moment of great crisis, as a pandemic sweeps the world, suspends funding for one of the health organisations at the very forefront of the battle against the coronavirus?