Kenya must face Trump to avert bullying of its citizens

US President Donald Trump. (Photo: Courtesy)

Donald Trump, the current tenant at the White House, is a foreign policy ignoramus. I don’t think he could point out Kenya on a map, even though he spent years de-legitimising former President Barack Obama, his predecessor, as an American. Mr Trump often charged, without evidence – like others in the so-called birther movement – that Mr Obama was born in Kenya, and therefore constitutionally ineligible to be US President. In fact, Mr Obama, an American born of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother, is Hawaiian by birth.

That makes him a “natural born” American fully eligible to be the American President. Mr Trump’s view of Kenya is most likely coloured by his hatred for Mr Obama.