Not much to choose between him and her

He has been called racist, fascist, totalitarian, misogynist, ignorant and pompous. In the Republican primaries for the presidential nomination campaign, few, if any, gave him any chance of surviving the race. Yet against all odds, Donald Trump will now take on Hillary Clinton in the race to the White House.

Surprisingly, even some hardcore Republicans have refused to endorse Trump. But nothing has perturbed Trump despite his innumerable gaffes, apparently politically incorrect remarks and loudmouth declarations, not to forget his "promise" to expel 11 million undocumented workers from Mexico and build a wall along the border with the country to stop illegal migration. Perhaps he enjoys the support of US voters because he has been saying what they had been eagerly waiting to hear for the past couple of decades.

Trump's latest gaffe was questioning the patriotism of the Gold Star parents of US Army captain Humayun Khan who was killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber in 2004. To make matters worse, his campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said President Barack Obama was to blame for the captain's death even though Obama only took office in 2009.