Hail the chiefSaturday’s Age cartoon (Letters, 20/9) of Albanese entering the White House is incorrect.The size of the ‘gifts’ bin is way too small. The bin size should enable a visitor to park a brand new jumbo jet in it. And there’s no visitor sign in book. The book requires the visitor to list a minimum 450 ‘amazing and incredible Trump achievements’.Tony Cosma, Rosanna

Broken promisesThank you, Anjali Sharma for the deeply moving piece “Targets abandon my generation” (20/9). Her words cut through political spin to reveal the human cost of slow action and broken promises.The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water has confirmed Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions actually increased in 2024 compared to the previous year. Excluding land use changes, emissions have only fallen by 4 per cent since 2005. This is far too slow to meet our climate goals and leaves young Australians facing an uncertain and dangerous future.Our leaders must listen to voices like Sharma’s and act with the urgency the science demands.Julia Paxino, Beaumaris

Madding crowdI hope all these Chinese tourists the premier is encouraging to visit Victoria will be warned not to visit Melbourne at the weekends – as they are very busy!Olivia Cuming, Hawthorn

War footingDonald Trump is obsessed with China. Now, he wants a base in Afghanistan so he is within striking distance of China. Australia needs to be very careful that it doesn’t get dragged into another unnecessary war similar to Afghanistan and Vietnam. One hopes that Trump isn’t getting advice from Scott Morrison who is also obsessed with China and its expansion into our region.Paul Chivers, Box Hill North

Whatever Trump hadI don’t know who wrote Trump’s royal banquet speech (perhaps the same person who wrote the screenplay for The Life of Brian) but the Oscar for the best performance must surely go to King Charles, who maintained his composure in the face of Trump saying: “And, fifth of all, … we are like two notes in one chord or two verses of the one poem, each beautiful in its own way but really meant to be played together” – to quote just one example.It goes without saying the visiting president read his speech as one reading a laundry list. Later, when asked what he ate at the banquet, he said “Whatever the hell it was that we were served”.The whole business was incredible and unbelievable, like we have never seen before and hopefully won’t see again.Claude Miller, Castlemaine