No! This is not the time for America, led by a perceived madman With an itchy trigger finger, to turn itself into a huge and isolationist gulag!

Well Hillary is unpopular enough for a Trump win to be contemplated on the back of a huge surge in a massaged protest vote. It's not like most folk will vote for Trump but against Hillary?

Trump as President will not be directed or controlled? And its true financial position leaves in a precarious and vulnerable position, which cannot be assisted by a economic illiterate and former bankrupt. We have laws here that prevent bankrupts from getting into public office and for good reason!
Alan B.

Its articles like this that are driving the support for Trump. No examination of what the man is actually saying but simply a resort to insults. Is it really racist for a person to be concerned about illegal immigration? Especially in a country with over tens million of illegal immigrants. Does support for a traditional view of marriage make one a bigot or a homophobe? If one speaks to woman in the same manner as a man does this make a person a misogynist?
The assumption in articles like this is that the people who support trump are simply too stupid to know better, or just racist bigoted Neanderthals. It is these assumptions that are driving his popularity.
I feel that he will do a perfectly fine job of president and certainly better than the warmongering Clinton. He may also look after the interests of working men and women who have been neglected for decades while politicians pander to special interest groups with the money and organisation to lobby them.

If America can survive Obama's presidency, it can survive Trump's.

I am old enough to remember that in 1980 the leftie media were fulminating about a b-grade movie actor becoming President. The fact that Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev and the Pope managed to end the cold war without significant loss of life (for which they never received the credit that was due), makes me think that President Trump may not be as bad as the media think. I am very comforted by the way he is lambasting the US media, as I think the media has deserted its correct function of reporting events, instead of attempting to manipulate them.

The current leftie administration in Washington has failed. President Trump can only be better.

Trump is the only hope for America's survival. The U.S has been brought to its knees by Obama, and would be finished off by the silly, screeching woman, Clinton.

The difference between Trump and the elite, professional politicians is that Trump says what he believes. And what he believes is also believed by a growing number of Americans who, like many Australians, are sick of the same pap they hear from the do-nothing political elites at every election: "jobs and growth", yada yada, empty promises, with not a mention of their mass immigration programmes, the Muslim threat,and the fact that this country is becoming a sick joke because of its importation of people who not only live out their lives on dole provided by Australians, but who are also totally opposed to us and our way of life.

We do not want the same old rubbish from boofheads like Turnbull and Shorten; we need someone like Trump. And if he is occasionally rough and rude, so much the better to give the political self-serving elites the bum's rush. Neither Australia nor America - or the entire Anglosphere - can last much longer with the the same worn out, ignorant idiots we have had to tolerate for far too long.