“Baby Trump” advertising in NZ in 2016. Photo: Paul Costigan
“It looks as though the politicians and their bureaucracies are taking the ACT election result as an endorsement of barbarous behaviour and outlandish decisions on development,” writes “Canberra Matters” columnist
PAUL COSTIGAN.
WANDERING down a street in Auckland, NZ, in early June 2016, we came upon a small group of people having a laugh about an advertising poster.
Photos were being taken. We crossed the street and joined in the laugh about the images of Baby Trump.
The world has now experienced what Trump’s election to US President in later 2016 meant to the world. Are we still laughing? There was already a dangerous level of distrust in governments. Trump played on this.