Trump's first six months

Donald Trump's greatest achievement since becoming President of the USA on January 20 is that he has provoked a trillion words of disbelief, anger, confusion, amazement, despair, hilarity and depression around the world. There is probably not a single individual on the planet above the age of seven who has not formed an opinion about the 45th US president. Ask any child in any country who Trump is, and he/she will have an answer. It will not often be to his liking. Trump's first six months have been like no other American president's first six months. He has wallowed in accusation and allegation. He has been the bete noire of almost every US major newspaper and broadcaster. Sometimes the Washington Post has seven or eight opinion pieces on Trump in the paper on the same day, most of them saying the same thing one way or the other. All bad. It's an incredible achievement. Trump has created a mass market all by himself. The whole world has become Trumpetised. Now maybe this is what he set out to do, to grab the attention of the planet and put his Trump stamp on everything, from global trade to climate change, immigration and, well, Muslims. He selected seven, then reduced to six, countries, mostly made up of Muslim citizens and basically said, keep away from America, we don't want you. This is the land of the free, the moral superpower. Well, no longer. Whatever Robert Mueller comes up with after completing his investigation into alleged collusion between Moscow and the Trump team during the election campaign, we already know what the president will say. If it's a clean bill of health, he will scream: "I told you so, I told you it was all a waste of time, just fake fake fake news." If Mueller uncovers prima facie evidence of collusion with really senior Trump people, whether associates, family or even Trump himself, then the president will tell all his supporters: "This is a conspiracy, a total witchhunt, Mueller is a bad man, I shall carry on regardless". And he will carry on regardless. Don't think, Mr Mueller, that if you produce a damning report for the Justice Department, it will make any difference to the White House encumbent. He is here to stay, well at least for his full four-year term and probably another four years after that. There will be no Trump downfall. Everything will be denied and dismissed. In fact, Mueller might as well pack up and take his bucket and spade to the beach. Trump ain't going nowhere!!