Trump knows how to put out fires

It's just the way he is, but Donald Trump couldn't resist offering advice on how to fight the terrible fire that has done such appalling damage to the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. He tweeted for the benefit of the French firefighters, "Why don't you try water tankers?" In other words, fly over the cathedral and smother the fire from above. Sitting in the White House, Trump thought he had the answer to save the medieval spire which finally collapsed. Well I don't know anything about firefighting techniques, apart from the obvious, but I reckon a deluge of water from a flyng tanker would probably have caused more damage to the roof and structure because of the huge weight of the downpour. Trump just thought, not for the first time, that he knew more about firefighting than the guys on the ground in Paris. He did the same when forest fires were burning in California. He also told Theresa May how to sort out Brexit. He has an answer to everything. If only he was right every time, the world might feel grateful. But on the whole the US president shoots from the hip and out comes his special sort of wisdom. I doubt the French firefighters struggling to save Notre Dame thought to themselves, "Oh my God, that man is right. Send for the water tankers."