How do you get a name like Reince Priebus? If JK Rowling doesn’t give it to you? You’d spend your entire childhood trying to unravel the “i before e except after r” conundrum. And once you’d sorted it out, you’d still have a really silly name.

But Reince overcame this miserable childhood to become a miserable adult. And never so miserable was when he became Chief of Staff (the capitals there purely in case any Americans are reading this, over here ‘its just a job’) to… THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!! And 6 months later he’s gone. History. Consigned to the history books and to confound spellcheckers the world over for all eternity.

I’m not even sure what a Chief of Staff does there. Hire the cleaners? Make sure the front door’s nice and shiny? Anyway, The Grand Chief (that’ll be the Prez) hired a new communications chief last week, Anthony Scaramucci, whose father featured in lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody before he joined the Mafia as a horse-head severer. But son Anthony is a star of communications. Because he just ‘gets it’. The job. Fully understands the entire spectrum of what the word ‘communication’ really really means. Which is why, speaking to a reporter, and ‘on the record’ he called Reibus ‘a fucking paranoid schitzophrenic’. The reporter actually went and published those very words but being America, using asterisks instead of ‘fucks’. You can walk round town with a fucking great sub-machine gun, but never say the f-word in public. God bless America.

‘The Mooch’, as he’s known, blamed the press. I’ll never trust ’em again, he intoned. Or antoned. Anyway, that’s what he said. Implying that the reporter was to blame. For doing his job and, er, reporting stuff. He also apologised for swearing (Republicans don’t swear, its unGodly) but not for the content of his rant. Which also included accusing Steve Bannon, Trump’s policy adviser and former ‘alt-right’ activist, of ‘sucking his own dick’. Which probably translates as some kind of metaphor over there, rather than the rather difficult physical near-impossibility that it remains on this fair Isle.

To further improve Donald’s mood this week, Congress voted to keep his most-hated ‘Obamacare’ going when he’s so desperate to bury it, and then they voted to take sanctions against Russia, which has also caused as stir. The last thing to go down that well in the White House was Monica Lewinsky.

Fortunately, North Korea tested yet another missile this week too. One capable of travelling 2000 miles. Or, ‘to Chicago’ as that distance is officially known. And that’s fortunate because Trump now has to do something. He has achieved not one thing in the last 6 months, but if he can nuke his way out of this one using extreme violence and gung-ho-manship, then Americans will love him.

God help us all.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx