Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America. In case you missed that. He is also, according to a book coming out today, a paranoid retard with the attention span of a goldfish, the mental agility of a rubber plant and the facial colouring of a tangerine. That last bit is perhaps less relevant in the current inquiry.

Steve Bannon, by all accounts someone else way short of any definition of ‘normal’, has written a book, actually authored by someone else, but his input for sure, revealing all about the election campaign and the current status quo at the White House, as he was heavily involved in both until the inevitable fouling foul of the chief exec a few months ago. So as word comes out about the book Trump is faced with the decision of what to do about it. And making decisions, particularly quickly, is not what this POTUS is very good at. So he set his lawyers on getting the book banned. Which, as a single move, has increased the initial sales potential probably to 10 times the initial print run. However big it might be. Everyone now wants to read it. I want to read it.

Trump tweeted the other day (his tweets are the perfect yardstick for how dire is his understanding of any particular situation) that ‘the East Coast is set for a freeze; how lucky we didn’t waste trillions of dollars on ‘global warming’!!!’ I mean; how dim can you be? But the tweets come when he’s alone. They’re unfiltered. And without his teams of advisors, he really does know absolutely nothing. As those tweets show again and again. He just ‘shoots from the hip’. Unfortunately, both hips are in need of replacement.

Meanwhile in Yemen, the Houthi rebels have now pretty much ‘taken’ most of Sanaa, the capital. The president has been killed and all has gone to shit. As its been destined for the terribly devastating years of this rather evil and cynical ‘war’. The Houthis are Iran-backed Shia militants and next-door neighbours Saudi Arabia are fighting them in the name of Sunni Islam. And because they fucking hate Iran. Thus Yemen is that awful thing; a proxy war. A war between two military powers but in someone else’s garden. In this case, in Yemen. The poorest of all the middle-eastern countries.

And nice to see, in one of the very few videos to have made it out of Sanaa (internet shut down, phones dead, no contact with the outside world) the Houthis celebrating their victory riding tanks round the streets shouting ‘death to America’ (who have no involvement in that particular battle whatsoever), ‘death to Israel’ (ditto) and ‘death to Jews!!’ (hmmmm).

So that’s all going well then.

Happy Friday

A xxxx