On Meanie Miss Trump.

‘We will be taking names,’ says Trump of those states which oppose his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. It’s an interesting statement. It puts me in mind of that stereotypical old schoolma’am, the ageing spinster who is unmarried not because she wants to be, but because she’s never found anybody masochistic enough to live with her meanness. She has grey hair pulled into a tight bun; she has hard eyes which speak volumes for fear and emotional insecurity; she wears a permanent frown and has thin, bloodless lips pulled down at the corners. She has no interest whatsoever in educating children, but is consumed with the need to control and bully those not yet strong enough to stand up to her.

This is the latest image of the wrecking ball known as Trump, determined as he is to bring the USA into ever greater disrepute. Let’s hear the phrase again:

We will be taking names

This is not the language of the White House as we remember it. This is the language of a third grade kindergarten in some small Midwest town that nobody has ever heard of. And once more the world looks at America and rolls its eyes.

As for Nikki Haley, she must surely be aware that if she continues on her present course she will be remembered by history as the consummate political whore. I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks she would be well advised to nail her colours to a different mast before it’s too late.