What is it about Trump?
Why are we in Britain obsessing about the man. Every news bulletin. Every front page of every newspaper. He has become Britains national obsession.
What do we care? We have our own problems to sort. The Americans have voted him in, now let them have him.
We deride him, moan about him, critisise him and generally act as though he is over here, ruining our country. He is not. We have our own idiots to do that.
Lets face it, he is doing absolutely nothing that he didn’t say he was going to do.
So whats wrong? Where is the surprise. And, what is it to do with us in Britain?
He is and idiot, but an American idiot and, thankfully, over there.
He wants to build a wall. Allegedly to stop Mexican degenerates and lowlifes coming in illegally. What’s so different from our Brexit. We, the Britis, voted to leave the EU and one of the biggest reasons was to protect our own borders. Trump is doing the same. We have a very large moat, he wants a wall. He’s building one, as he said he would from the off.
He has begun to dismantle Obamacare on the basis it is unworkable and will cost fortunes for others. As he said he would from the off.
He has cut up trade deals because he doesn’t like/want them and to give more Americans jobs making goods rather than importing them as in the coal production programme he is to reinstate. All as he said he would from the off.
He has reinstated the Dakota pipeline programme. Proposing to use American made pipes not the originaly proposed imported pipework. His basis was his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again”, aiming to create jobs and wealth for Americans. All as he said he would.
So why are we, in Britain so critical about him and what he is doing? Let’s face it, we nearly had an even bigger mistake (some may say joke) of a leader in Boris Johnson. Would that have created such a furore in America if we had ended up with BoJo as PM? Very doubtful. We should look at America and say “There, but for the Grace of God …………..”
So far he, Trump, is the only politician (?) who has done what he promised when campaigning. That in itself is a first, at least in my lifetime, surely.
The recent, and widespread, womens marches highlight the apparent disregard he holds for females in general. Fair enough. I agree. He appears a misogonystic, chauvinist pig that expects to get his own way with women as he does with most other things. Regardless of whose feelings he offends. Possibly because he is a billionaire, and any adult knows that money usually buys most things that you want. However, the American women seemed to vote for him in the same numbers as men. They did not show too much concern at the ballot box where, it should be argued, it would have made a difference.
Women in Britain, and elsewhere, marching up and down streets will change nothing while women in America are making dicks like Trump a President. Women in Britain, and elsewhere, marching up and down against women in America doing stupid things may have more effect.
He doesn’t appear, at least on the surface, to have done anything like our television stars. As in raping, assaulting and grooming like Saville, Harris and Hall et al. Where were the marches of solidarity for womens feelings with that lot?
The argument that they, were not in positions of great power is only valid if Trump had been in such a position then. He wasn’t when these injustices against women were committed. They are not considered, at least not yet, to be worthy of prison as the cases in Britain. Until he uses his new power to actively encourage sexist and bad behaviour against women then the placards aimed at his attitude of women are probably out of place.
He has, as I write, banned Muslims from travel to the US to stop any influx of possible ISIS terrorists. As he said he would.
On the radio I have just listened to a bunch of no hope polititions, I believe they are referred to as the Opposition in the UK and led by a man called JC, screaming at Theresa May that it is all her fault and she must do something about it.
She can’t. Any more than he and his failed opposition policitos can.
Good God, we in Britain openly laugh at Corbyn, a man so unsuccessful his own team find him embarassingly lacking and want him gone. Why on earth would a narcissic, pompous, up his own arse, God fearing bigot dickhead, recently put in the position of the most powerful man of the “free” world, care. He doesn’t give a shit about millions of muslims in many countries. He is hardly likely to worry about a bunch of no hope chancers taking the opportunity to scream abuse at Theresa May for letting the President of the United States do exactly as he promised the American electorate he would do and them voting for him to get on and do it.
At the same time I suppose it explains the perfectly good reason why the British opposition party are the British opposition party. They, like the rest of us, are all consumed with what Trump is doing but least get well paid for the blaing of others whilst not achieving anything at all themselves.
I would point out to them and the whole of the UK that we have our own problems. Serious ones. Problems that need sorting before we have the nerve to tell the Americans how they should run their country and who they should have voted power to.
Stop this obsession with Trump. With America.
Let us get on with making OUR country better. Far, far more constructive to show America the way than doing nothing but ineffectual moaning that will achieve nothing.
Trumps lumbering, bull in a china shop, foot in mouth form of leadership and the insulting, hurtful, distateful American policies are upsetting everyone. In Britain it is distracting us from our priorities. God forbid his policies and actions manage to stop one, just one, illegal Mexican rapist or one, just one, suicide terrorist bomber. If that becomes the case then there could be no stopping him.
We all know that they probably won’t of course, but hey! he’s doing what he said – so let’s stop obsessing and let the Americans get on with being American.
It is none of our business in Britain. Let him get on with it. Let them get on with it. If he wants to insult, abuse, inflame, incite then it is up to the people of America to stop it. Not us.
Unless you believe we should we invade on the excuse of preferred regime change – I think tht is the terminology.
The Americans have given the ultimate mandate to a TV celebrity. The reason they did that is because they are American. You can work that insult out for yourselves.
As an added thought on this.
I voted in our referendum to stay in the EU. I am beginning to change my mind – slowly, and Trump has no small part to play in this process.
First, he didn’t lie to his potential voters. He has, or is, at least doing what he said on his campaign trail whether you, me, or hundreds of thousands of our women like it or not. Compare that to our politicians who had a complete u turn after lying and getting the votes they wanted over Brexit.
We are to leave the EU. Ostensibly to have control over our borders and people entering our country. Not to be dictated to by Brussels. To take control over our own future – and finances.
Yet we are told we must “negotiate” a so called “vital” trade deal with the EU. If we are to do this we would need to comply with all the EU regulations and laws we are currently complying with!
So we would end up with exactly what we have and we have already voted against that.
Perhaps, just perhaps, a leaf from the book of Trump may be of use. His “Make America Great Again” with jobs created or brought back to the States is no different from our “Buy British” campaign of the seventies or was it eighties? If we cannot negotiate a trade deal on our Brexit, why can’t we, Britain, start to produce jobs for our British workers. Let us open a few coal mines to produce our own coal and not import it. Perhaps we can start to boost our own farmers and food producers instead of buying in from Europe. If we resurrected our manufacturing industries we may not be so desperately reliant on the “Common Market” If we tore up any agreeemnets with China, the way Trump intends to, perhaps we wouldn’t need to buy their steel any more and we could reopen Tata Steel. Yes, it will be more expensive, so what? It looks as though things are going to get tough enough as it is so let’s make it worthwhile.
The people at Tata Steel in Port Talbot would be earning money and paying taxes and jobs will be created there and elsewhere in our country.We could be making our own steel, and better steel than the Chinese can appantly “dump” on us.
Why are we getting the French to build our new Nuclear plant? Cancel the order and let’s build it ourselves. Our concrete, our steel, our workers. We have voted to do things alone. We need leadership that will allow us , and encourage us, to do just that.
Britain has voted to stand seperate from the rest of Europe. We should do just that, or at least make a bloody good try at it. For no other reason than we are going to have to. Let’s start to make things again. To produce more. Create jobs and wealth. We have, and always have had, great technical abilities and innovation skills. Arguably the best in the world. Let’s use those talents. There is no reason why we cannot be independent and far, far more self sufficient. It would take hard work and leadership…and time. If we are to stand alone, then let’s do it. Let’s do a Trump and say screw you lot! Lets have our own “Make America Great Again” ………ours could be “Make Great Britain – Again”.
It’s got a good ring to it, don’t you think?