Trump’s here. But not for long. He’s off to see Pooot’n in a day or two so is here just long enough to upset Theresa May, probably grab the Queen’s ass and tell a few nob jokes to some hoi-poloi. Oh, and do some ‘deals’. He loves a deal. But only if its a ‘good deal’. And NATO isn’t really a good deal for America. Because, basically, they fund it. And in a way you have to admire Trump because he’s the first American prez to actually come out and say ‘WHY ARE WE PAYING FOR THE WHOLE NATO THING WHICH PROTECTS YOUOUOU?!?!?!?!’ Good question. And he’s also said that a ‘soft brexit’ (note: I can’t be bothered any longer to capitalise ‘brexit’ because its become so dreadfully boring so I’ve relegated it), which is effectively ‘no brexit’ will adversely affect trade with the US who are about to impose big tariffs on European trade and we’d still be part of the European trading thing. Oooohhhh.

Trump calls it as he sees it, no-one can deny that, no matter how many fat baby blimps you float around London. I hope there’ll be at least two of them because Trump says everything twice so it would kind’a poetic. And are these blimps just ‘freedom speech in a democratic nation to express their distaste for a man who is a known for… well, everything rotten really’? Or is it just a extension of the hard left’s apparent hatred of America and all things American, using the new prez as an excuse to further demonise our closest ‘ally’?

I’m no fan of The Donald. In case you may have missed the last 2 years of my incessant slagging off of the most inappropriate president the world has ever known, including Kim Jong-Un and Gadaffi. And I couldn’t give a shit about a couple of Trumpish balloons floating about, disrespectful as they are, but he kind’a needs to be disrespected as a person, if not always for the role he’s currently taking. And there’s the Islamaphobia and the misogyny and the gropage and the sexism and the ‘from these cold, grey hands’-ism regarding guns, to name but a few.

But where were the protestors when ‘we’ had the Saudis over for the full Royal Visit? The nation that has, just last month allowed women to drive; that has sustained the war in neighbouring Yemen responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civiliains; where torture is common, raped women are stoned to death and all is really peachy? Where were the protests when President Xi came over from China, again being given the full horse-and-carriage reception even after he personally removed the words ‘human rights’ and ‘presidential elections’ from the Mandarin dictionary?

So if the protests are anti-Trump, then that’s fine, but where the fuck were you for previous tyrants and scumbags? If its just Corbyn-inspired anti-capitalism, then I hope they bring out the tear gas, rubber bullets and Boris’s water cannon.

Happy Friday

A xxxx

The photo is of the Trump protection heli-thingumy which flew past my house yesterday and disturbed Lila’s nursery rhymes, noisiest thing ever. Why couldn’t he take the tube like everyone else?