another Monday another Trump meeting with a disgrace figure world leader. We’ve done Kim, yesterday it was Poot’n. Next week maybe Assad? Erdogan? Maybe Macron. But ‘its good to talk’. So we’re told. Though it depends indeed what is said.

Trump’s one-on-one with Poot’n went, according to Donald, ‘very well. Very well indeed’. Because? We discussed?? Decisions were made? Plans formulated? Continuation talks agreed??

We’ll never know. What was said in Helsinki will apparently stay in Helsinki. Trump being Trump and only ever saying the headline, twice, obviously, with no substance to follow. No substance to follow. Tosser. Tosser.

What we do know is that Poot’n emphatically denied that Russia had any influence whatsoever on the US presidential elections or the Brexit referendum. Trump believes him. Even though Poot’n’s default position is always denial. And I always believe him too. He had nothing to do with the Scripals poisoning in Salisbury. Nothing to do with Litvinenko. Nothing to do with Ukraine. Is not currently systematically murdering Syrian civilian populations on a city-by-city basis.

But Trump’s… naive? stupid? calculated? acceptance of Poot’n’s denial because it was ‘so strong’, immediately puts the Prez at odds with his entire intelligence network, all of whom are assured of Russia’s involvement and interference. Yet Trump decides to believe his new mate, rather than the acronym squads of the CIA, the FBI, NSC and ITV. The NRA have yet to comment, but safe to say, they don’t like commies. Even multi-squillionaire ones like Poot’n who loves guns and fires them often. Trump has already been accused of ‘treason’. Probably only ‘thought-treason’ where you think an enemy is right and 22,000 intel bods in your employ must therefore be wrong. Maximum sentence 97 years. Though for Trump who always says things twice, make that 194 years.

Its all meaningless. A PR exercise by both countries to show the world that the two nations in possession of collectively 90% of the world’s nukes aren’t going to have a war any time soon.

For which we can all be eternally (quite literally) grateful. This week at least.

Happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday

A xxxx