Congrats to Malaysian athletes for 111 Gold in SEA Games and go for more - but will Cabinet strike Gold for Malaysia by vetoing Najib’s humiliating and shameful visit to White House and meeting with Trump?

Congrats to Malaysian athletes for 111 Gold Medals in the SEA Games and go for more in the last two days of SEA Games, including the “mother of all medals” – the football gold tonight.

But will the Cabinet meeting on the eve of the 60th National Day celebrations strike a Gold for Malaysia by vetoing the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s humiliating and shameful visit to the White House and meeting with US President Donald Trump scheduled for Sept. 12 as a kleptocrat and “MO1”?

I reserve comment on the extraordinary and unprecedented Merdeka video where the MCA President and Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai took on a double acting role, but to pose the question after watching Pete Teo’s Merdeka video as to how Malaysians can have hope for the country when Ministers in Cabinet are not prepared to emulate the example of Malaysian athletes in SEA Games and strike a Gold in defence of the honour, dignity and reputation of Malaysia?

Malaysians must never lose hope in Malaysia, but tomorrow, Malaysians will know whether Cabinet Ministers from the 14 Barisan Nasional parties can be relied upon to keep this hope alive or Malaysians have no choice but to look elsewhere if the Merdeka Dream of all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics is to be achieved at all.

Lim Kit Siang DAP Parliamentary Leader & MP for Gelang Patah