Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The world awoke this morning to learn that Donald Trump had been elected to be President of the United States of America. Last year the Taoiseach said that when he got to meet Donald Trump face to face, he would tell him that he had racist views and that he was a racist. When does he think that will happen? From what I am hearing today, the leaders of the three biggest parties in this Parliament are sending congratulations to Donald Trump when all three of them raised huge problems with things he said in the very recent past. Speaking on radio, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told us we should have a love-in with a man who was a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe and many other things besides. Rather than sending congratulations to Donald Trump, this Parliament and the people of this country would prefer if we expressed sympathy and support for every single person of colour, every immigrant, every LGBT person, every Muslim and, of course, every woman in America who is in danger of Donald Trump acting out some of his policies.

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