I'll be telling it like it is
Given that liberal America has to acclimatize to living with President Trump, it feels like providing a form of public service.
I'll be telling it like it is.
If the conversation turns to immigration, it will be sufficient to remind the table that President Barack Obama might well be remembered as the deporter-in-chief, having expelled more than 2.4 million illegal immigrants during his first six years in office. That's more than all the 20th century presidents put together.
But what of the wall? Mr. Obama surely never suggested walling off Mexico?
No, but he did vote for just such a proposal (The Secure Fence Act of 2006) which ended up building more than 600 miles of fence.
I have plenty more smart-aleck comebacks like that from the time I spent covering the campaign, getting out of New York and speaking to Trump supporters.
It has become quite my dinner party turn, fielding queries from baffled New Yorkers who don't escape their bubble often enough.
It feels a bit like when I arrived in the US from my last posting in Pakistan. Disbelieving immigration staff would treat me like some sort of naturalist returning from an alien world.
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