I joined William Crawley of BBC Radio Ulster for a 40-minute debate on Friday over Donald Trump’s first year in office.

Topics include the economy, immigration, foreign policy, and Trump’s character, including his attitudes towards women and people of color. The other participant is Trump spokesperson Jan Halper-Hayes.

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Trump has been damaging and divisive, targeting entire groups of Americans — people of color, Hispanic Americans, African Americans — as being unworthy. He has tried to tear apart the press, a responsible press, by claiming that all of it is “fake media”. He has even gone to the point of supporting, or appearing to support, the marches of white supremacists.

If you talk about an America of values, one which you hope is progressive, no, I think Donald Trump has been unstable and damaging and he is not good for the state of America or the world.