Maybe it’s his name that irritates people. Trump. In cards, to triumph, in musical terms a suggestion of a trumpet fanfare. Maybe it’s his hair. Or his hands…But there I go again, commenting on a politician’s appearance. The reason Trump is detested is that he says and does detestable things.
I could list some of them. Such as his bragging about sexually humiliating women. Or making statements and then denying he’s made them. Or telling the world that he’s probably the most excellent president the United States has ever had. OK, maybe not that last one. But it’s near enough.
So as his plane descends on London this morning, and as he prepares to visit Ireland shortly after, should people be polite? I personally hope that the anti-Trump demonstrations result in such widespread disorder, even Trump’s thick skin will be penetrated and he’ll know the contempt in which the English people hold him. I wish the same for his Irish visit but I have a lot less faith. The people of the village of Doonbeg, where Trump’s golf course is, will wrap him in cead mile failtes: this man has brought jobs and saved the small town from decay, unlike many other western small towns. When it comes to the crunch, most of us protect our job and/or financial interest, and to hell with principle.
Trump isn’t the worst head of state ever to visit Ireland. Don’t forget we’ve had Thatcher – OK, she wasn’t head of state but you get the idea. And we’ve had Ronnie Reagan. And Xi Jinping.
And Cromwell.
But the main reason I hope the English people go ape-shit today, and still nurture a faint hope that Irish people will get the message of detestation through to Trump, is that the bloated bully, like Sammy Wilson, rejects the idea of climate change, let alone climate crisis. This is the man who pulled out of the Paris Accord, which at least addressed this major matter. Trump is also intent on encouraging the UK to leave the EU, in the hope that the continent will fragment, he can sign a trade deal with the UK which will, among other things, allow vulture fund moral lepers to strip the NHS bare and reduce health care in Britain to survival of the fittest.
I don’t like how Trump looks, or sounds, or acts. This man is extremely dangerous and needs to be told how the rest of the world views him.
Apart from people in Doonbeg, who know a bowl of soup when they slurp it.
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