So yesterday we had Trump, part 2. The second course. Trump against the B-team. Possibly the C-minus team. Because whereas Wednesday he was royally entertained at Windsor Castle, yesterday he was forced to spend the day at Chequers with The Dullard. Our Prime Minister. A man who obviously struggles with Donald J Trump. Everyone struggles with that man, but those gifted with a quick mind, a quicker tongue, and a degree of fortitude, can fare quite well. None of which, obviously, applies to our sterile and wooden political leader. He just looked scared of what was next and managed to get his pre-prepared answers into the right context. On migrants. On Gaza. On Mandelson. And on Epstein.

Then we saw both the best and the worst of Donald Trump, all in a few hours.

He ‘disagreed’ with Starmer about our leader’s decision to ‘recognise the state of Palestine’. I don’t mean as in “have you seen the fucking state of Palestine lately????”, but I mean as in official UN recognition that the murderous, hostage-holding, ‘GEN-O-CIDAL!!’, terrorist run shit-show, will be ‘recognised’ as the reward for all of Hamas’s fabulous humanitarian work. So Trump called Starmer a virtue-signalling, bandwagon-jumping, vote-chasing, moron-appeasing dickhead. Ok, I would have, Trump made nice.

Then did the next brilliant thing and slagged off our esteemed mayor. He’s a ‘bad person’, ‘I’ve never liked him’, and best of all ‘he’s the worst mayor in the world, and there are a few bad ones out there’. Loved that. Those few kind words from the Prez and Sadiq’s international credibility is now on ground zero. Where it should be. If not for uttering not one word during the entire week of crippling tube strikes, in HIS city, then certainly for failing to attend or mention the march against Antisemitism.

But then Trump, after all that good work, went all stupid.

The battle cry of the Republic(ans) has been ‘free speech’. ‘The First Amendment’. To the point of attacking the United Kingdom for arresting and locking up… ok, primarily right wing hate-speakers.

And then Jimmy Kimmel, darling of the Democrats, very successful late-night tv comedian, and Trump satirist, suddenly gets sacked by ABC. Followed by Trump’s people actually implying that tv channels being critical of the President may lose their licenses. Read that again and then, altogether: HOLEEEEE SHEEEEEEETTT!!!!

That’s Putin. That’s Kim Jong Un. That’s that fat fuck from Belarus. But that is not democracy. The 9th amendment to our own constitution (ok, we don’t actually have one, but if we did…), known as the ‘Monty Python clause’, states that taking the piss out of the government is absolutely essential in any decent country.

So, Fat Don. Can’t live with him, can’t live without him.

Happy Friday

A xxxx