Donald Trump is in China. The east meets the west in a clash of the superpowers. If only it was a straight fight, boxing match, punch-up or something equally mano-a-mano, that would be fine. Do we want Trump representing ‘the west’? Which includes us? But it has to be done. He needs China onside regarding North Korea (never gonna happen in a million years) and trade deals need to be sorted. Because there’s lots of trade between the two world superpowers. I don’t count Russia anymore, simply because I don’t want to.

Interestingly, most presidents, most of whom generally serve the maximum 8 years, don’t go to China. If you happen to be the prez when China has just slaughtered a million Tibetans, you wouldn’t wanna go shake their collective hand (everything in China is, nominally, collective). So the presidents that have been are: Nixon, Reagan, Clinton (Bill, obvs, Hillary never quite made it) and Obama. And bizarrely, ALL of them were indicted of crimes. Except Reagan and Obama.

Nixon was Nixon, Watergate, shame and scandal. Clinton was almost indicted, so ‘almost’ that I’m prepared to include him in possibly the most lop-sided and incorrect generalisation ever, for lying under oath. Got off on a technicality, because for ‘sex’ to have occurred with Ms Lewinsky, his penis needed to be inserted into a different part of her body from the one in which it was discovered. Bill’s Rule.

So maybe this is a (far-fetched, way ‘out there’) omen. That Trump himself may be impeached. There’s so many wonderful opportunities to do it, be a shame to waste them all.

Meanwhile Priti Patel, as expected, got the boot from cabinet. They dragged her sorry ass all the way back from Africa to do the dirty. And Priti was wrong. She didn’t tell anyone that she was going to be involved in exceedingly high level discussions of national concern. She said she was gonna be on a beach eating felafel. Big difference. Less calories in meetings with Binyamin Netanyahu, probably not quite as enjoyable as the felafel, but can be productive. And what she was trying to produce was a deal with the Isreali army. Which, in the eyes of most, sadly, is ‘dining with the devil’, but more, together they were setting up an aid programme for the army there to help Syrians in the Golan Heights. So Priti couldn’t have informed her ministry what she intended because Britain doesn’t recognise the Golan Heights as ‘Israel’ because its occupied territory. So Priti goes. And the only losers really are the poor Syrians who now get help. How this is beneficial to anyone, I really can’t answer. Red tape is red tape. And is always so much bollocks.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx