Letters to The Editor — January 9, 2026

Trump and his actions

U.S. President Donald Trump’s classifications of foreign relations fall into ‘Very Happy’, ‘Very Unhappy’ and ‘Others’. National leaders of the first category are escorted with great ceremony to be his guests in the U.S. for as long as he wants. They attain their nirvana. Those in the last category are his playmates in games such as hide and seek or boxing practice. Here only Ukraine’s Zelenskyy finds himself in switched classifications and neither he nor Mr. Trump is clear on this, while the rest seem to be enjoying it all till it lasts. It is those in Mr. Trump’s ‘Very Unhappy’ group who find themselves free of the passing fancies of a President who is yet to learn separating business from pastime. It enables them to go about their own business and, in the process, clock enviable GDP.

R. Narayanan,

Navi Mumbai

The actions by the United States under President Trump are totally against international law and the United Nations charter. Mr. Trump’s ‘claim’ over Greenland exposes the ‘Hitler in Trump’. One wonders what more lies ahead in his strange expansionist plans. It is time that like-minded nations joined hands, and under the auspices of the UN, to end the evil designs of America.

S.V. Venkatakrishnan,

Singapore