Asbury Park Press

Hate is a word that is not allowed in our home because it smacks of something vile or vitriolic. How can anyone say they hate our president when he has done so much to help our country?

Donald Trump's policies have created a booming economy that is the envy of every other country in the world. More than 6 million new jobs have been created. We have more jobs than there are people to fill them. The economy is growing at more than twice the rate set by Obama’s policies.

We have become energy independent and thus can tell countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran to go pound sand. We don’t need their oil. This is a result of the opening of the Columbia Pipeline and fracking in various places in the U.S. The stock market is up by nearly 40 percent. Yes, the rich got richer but so did millions of other people with IRAs. Closed factories are reopening and wages are rising. The rising tide lifts all boats.

The unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in decades, especially with African Americans and other minority groups. Mexico will pay for the border wall after Trump opted out of NAFTA and revenues that were going to Mexico and Canada will stay here. Call it de facto payment. NATO countries will now pay their fair share of the cost of their own defense. Trump’s tariff policies have countries like China, Japan and Mexico realizing that we will no longer be taken advantage of in trade agreements and are willing to talk.

Vito Corleone had it right: "Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer.” Trump has North Korea talking to us, Russia knows we mean business and even Iran Is putting out overtures that they want to talk because Trump is tightening the screws on them.

Trump is hated because he has been successful and the haters are flat-out jealous.

Michael D. Fornino

Neptune