I endeavor to look at Trump through the eyes of my late mother

Frida Ghitis: Sometimes it is easier to see a person clearly through someone else’s eyes.

Ghitis says her mother saw Trump as a businessman eager to settle intractable disputes with handshakes, a deal-maker anxious to hasten change with his signature alone.

She would have praised the strong, pure voices of the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club as they sang “ The Battle Hymn of the Republic ” in the Capitol Rotunda, a far greater musical high point than Carrie Underwood .

She would have noted the presence, in what was once again Trump’s Oval Office , of the countless pictures of his family members, especially his father and his mother—his expressions of loyalty to whom were, for her, a sign of his fundamentally good character. I wish my mother had been able to rejoice at this unprecedented comeback, which I could not help but see through her eyes..