Trump and the power of positive thinking

Today I read The Washington Post article, "Maybe he'll be a friend," and to me this demonstrates positive thinking. I offer you my sincere thanks for a story more balanced than in the past.

I have my own favorite characters and bias when I consume information. There is no logic in bias. How easy it is when you like someone to become blind to the possibilities of ugliness in them, of weaknesses too deep to be passed over with tolerance.

Still, not a lot of tolerance is shown for Donald John Trump and in my opinion, those who dislike having Trump as POTUS have Norman Vincent Peale to blame. President Donald Trump attended Peale's church while growing up, as well as marrying his first wife, Ivana, there. I just saw the president with Russian President Putin, and with each and every thing Trump does with him, I see Peale's advice, written in the pages of this book.

And today I am still trying to work it out in my head: how a boy who grew up listening to his minister, becoming so successful as to become president of the United States of America, should be so disliked and scorned here and across the globe.

Diana Skipworth

Bartlett