Who's afraid of Donald Trump?

For all kinds of reasons, there are a lot of people in the United States and around the world who are now afraid of Donald Trump. It's because of who he is, his personality, his style of leadership, his wizz-bang foreign policy statements and decisions, his unpredictability and, of course, his tweets. Not afraid, as in frightened to death, but afraid/wary about what he might do next. When he comes to the UK for his visit on Friday July 13, I suspect he will be on his best behaviour and I don't mean that to sound very Brit condescending. But the UK is still America's closest ally (not France which is the oldest ally) and he will be coming to meet the Queen. Trump, like all of his predecessors - and she has met everyone single one since Eisenhower apart from Lyndon B Johnson - will probably have what we used to call the "collywobbles", or butterflies in the stomach at the thought of meeting Her Majesty. And quite right too. She will no doubt put him at his ease but he cannot afford to put a foot wrong because press reporters and especially photographers will be itching to witness a faux pas which they can spread all over the front pages. Any sign of discourtesy or overbearingness or yawns behind the hand or fingers uplifted the wrong way or any sign of ignorance on royal matters and the headlines will be there. The expected mass protests will be nothing in comparison with a Trump smirk when he meets the queen or a curtsy instead of a bow or tripping up when walking backwards because some idiot in the White House will have told him that everyone is supposed to walk backwards from Her Majesty. Oh it's going to be such fun.