Sunday 7 January 2018

When will this all end?

The New Year has started so badly for Donald Trump I wonder whether even someone like him - a "stable genius" as he claims - can survive the pressure. He may be technically the most powerful man on the planet because of the nuclear button and the size of the US economy, but everyone seems to be trying to reduce him to a pitiful wreck with no life, no hope and no future. Michael Wolff, rather grandly, believes his book, Fire and Fury, could bring Trump down. I think Wolff doth think too highly of himself. But the depictions of life in the Trump White House do not engender confidence in the president, to put it mildly. Then there's the Robert Mueller Russia investigation saga. Surely that has to end this year! So, basically, Trump's survival as president will be resolved this year whatever else he does, such as declare war on North Korea. Everyone is going on about the 25th Amendment under which Congress and the vice-president can have a little chat and order the president to step down on the grounds of mental instability. But, unlike Ronald Reagan who began suffering from early Alzheimer's disease in the last two years of his second term of office, Trump has a clean bill of health, apparently, whatever Wolff says. Trump is different, a totally different type of president, unlike any of his predecessors, but that doesn't make him a loony. Not certifiable anyway. But Mike Pence and Congressional big guns have a duty to make sure Trump is not veering towards a mentally unstable state. Good luck with that. I doubt Trump is behaving differently from the way he has always behaved. And half the voting population liked the way he conducted himself when they chose him and not Hillary Clinton. So, once the Wolff book furore has died down and it falls off the bestsellers' list, life might just get back to normal. Well, as normal as it was before this wretched book came out. Until of course, the next book is published, perhaps to be entitled America in Crisis - the Trump Meltdown.

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