Trump would love to be Macron

Poor Trump. He thought, after winning the election, he would be followed everywhere by adoring crowds of fans. Afraid not! And as for the media, most of the big-time newspapers, such as The New York Times and Washington Post, spend most days attacking him. Oh to be Emmanuel Macron, he must think to himself. Macron, only just 40, and pretty popular after all his reforming policies, and good-looking, and with a wife who looks pretty damned good - better than his monosyllabic spouse - it really isn't fair. Now Macron has given a walk-around interview to a posh French television station in which the reporter involved spent the whole time fawning over the French leader like he was some sort of Renaissance King. Well, it's true Macron does seem to fancy himself as an Emperor-type, but any decent reporter would have quickly asked questions that might have burst Macron's egotistical bubble. But, no, the reporter, a goodlooking chap himself, just waffled on in his praise and adoration. Of course that probably made most viewers think, "Yuk" or "Beurk", the equivalent in French. But it just showed the reverence in which Macron is now held. I'm not sure anyone holds Trump in reverence. So he must be very jealous of his French counterpart. After nearly 12 months of Trumpism, especially his mountain of tweets, I don't think anything is going to change on that score, looking ahead to 2018.