Trump blasts off to Fox

If you haven't heard Trump shouting down the line to Fox News today, you should. It's an eye-opener. Well, more like an ear-opener. He literally bellows with anger at the Justice Department for the "witchhunt" against him over the Russia collusion allegations. He sounds truly out of his pram, as the British saying goes. At one point he said "it's a horrible thing", perhaps plaguarising a Harry Potter remark. I don't know what the horrible thing is he was referring to but it sounds like he meant everything to do with the Justice Department, headed of course by his personal appointee Jeff Sessions, the attorney general. I hope poor old battered Sessions hasn't heard about it because it might ruin his day. Trump is clearly p....ed off by the whole saga and is even more p....ed off that no one in the country seems to be congratulating him on all his achievements. In true Trumpian style, he claimed he had accomplished more in his first year in office than any other president in the history of the United States of America. That's always a dangerous thing to say because Washington is awash with "fact-checkers" - the Washington Post has a regular column doing that very thing - and you can be sure that George Washington or Harry S Truman or Franklyn D Roosevelt or Lyndon B Johnson or John F Kennedy achieved more than Trump in the same period. I'm sure as hell Trump didn't check before he made that statement on Fox News. But Trump's point was, "Why is everyone focusing on what the ****** Justice Department is doing when he, the president of the United States, is achieving miracles almost every day?" He sounded really really angry. It is quite extraordinary for a president of the United States to resort to shouting down the line at a TV station because he woke up in a terrible mood. But this is the Trump era for you. Yesterday he was all charmy charmy with Macron, hoding hands with the French leader and smiling like he had won the Lottery, and today it's black mood time and a call to Fox News. At least he knew they would take the call.