The power of power

Trump right now is the most excited kid on the block. For the moment, he can literally do anything he wants to shape or reshape the United States of America and the world. It's the sort of power he has never ever experienced in all his years of wheeling and dealing in the business world. Just a stroke of his pen on a fancy book with "executive power" written on the front and he gets instant reaction. You can see in the pictures of him signing his infamous "no Muslims" order the smiles on the faces of his so-called advisers, particular the dreadful Steve Bannon, his chief strategist and now appointed on the board of the National Security Council (God help us!). Bannon is a right-wing forward thruster who will make even the generals in the cabinet cower under his heavy-jowled face. They say power corrupts but in Trump's case power is making him like a child with a new Star Wars toy. He wants to play with it every minute of the day, and every time he switches it on the bright lights and spacey voice make him jump with joy. Hey, groupies, this is fun!!! And this is the America I grew to love after living and working there for three years. I fear for the country, I fear for all my American friends who didn't believe me three months ago when I predicted that Trump would beat Hillary, I fear for all the ordinary innocent people in the world's worst countries who look to the US for inspiration and help, I fear for all of us in this country who think we have a special relationship with the White House but now don't want it, and I am afraid of the consequences for the rest of the world having a man like Trump in the Oval Office playing with his power games. I fear, too, for freedom of expression and freedom of the press in the US. My only non-negative comment is that there are millions of lovely, honourable, respectful, democracy-loving people in the US who will refuse to let their country's reputation be ruined by Trumpism. But a helluva lot of Americans chose Trump instead of Hillary. So, for the next six to nine months, it's going to be nightmare politics until things begin to calm down. Even Trump will eventually realise that he's the president of a democratic country, not a dictator. He won't be able to do everything he wants to do. Please God!