The problem with Donald Trump is that he says (or normally just tweets) what he thinks. No filters. The good thing about Donald Trump (yes, there is one good thing) is that he says what he thinks. No filters. When he fires off a tweet at 3 o’clock in the morning he’s just lying there in bed, possibly with Melania, possibly not if she’s in the basement lying on Transylvanian soil, and he learns something and instinctively he sends words out there. His words, his thoughts, his ideas, his complaints. Its safe to assume that although there are hundreds of others in the White House, many of them awake and working, at that time, he does not consult them. They’re not in the bed with him at the time. I hope.

And although I disagree with about 90% of what the Donald says, and find the other 10% morally repellant, I actually like the way he says it. No filters. He just shouts the first words that come into his head. And other than the fact that its him that’s saying them, I find that rather refreshing. Most politicians say nothing without 17 spin doctors working out the damage potential, the correct manner, the obfuscation of the truth, the dimming of unpleasant facts. In Trump speak; presenting the alternative facts.

So Trump is a plonker, but he’s an honest one. Like yesterday when challenged about Put’n on the basis that the Russian leader has teams of killers, Trump replied that America has killers too. And we all know that. We’ve all seen the movies. We know about hit men, we know about ‘sanctions’, we know about ‘cleansing’ we know about the CIA, and the NSA and FBI and fifty more groups of acronyms who carry guns and do the dirty work. Its just not a particularly presidential thing to admit such a thing. Yet Trump did. And although I wouldn’t have voted for him if he’d been the only person standing, I can actually see why so many Americans did. Because he talks straight. Even if he is a little detached from reality.

The only other redeeming factor in the Trump fiasco is that he’s the only world leader who is sceptical (understatement) on climate change. As any sensible person should be. Because the entire scientific field on that subject is rife with ‘alternative facts’. Its like the measles scandal all over again. Most ‘climate research’ is flawed, we now learn. Because if it shows what people want it to show then further, and very lucrative, grants are then forthcoming. So ‘studies’ become altered, facts become distorted, the ‘truths’ are redefined. All of which spoils it for the good guys. Because now we feel we can’t trust any ‘facts’ about global warming. Which is happening TO A DEGREE but nothing like its being promoted to be. An entire, yes, Global, industry has been built upon very little concrete data.

Happy Monday; its fucking cold today, no danger of global warming this morning

A xxxx