"The Donald" President Trump

Franglais:

muckles:
The thing is we all know Trump has many skeletons in his cupboard and a fair few that seem to have escaped, but then so does almost every other global politician and major business leader. However the constant media witch hunt, especially in the US media over Trump is getting boring now, it could even end up being counter productive.

I think I know what you mean about Trump news getting boring, and about it being “counter productive”. He is such a master of spin that all he has to do is say “fake news” and his core supporters love him more every time another skeleton starts rattling! They assume all accusations against him are fake. Nothing he is likely to say is going to convince his opponents that he is a worthy leader, and nothing seems to disillusion his followers.
It`s about as divided a situation as it is possible to be. Very strange.

How lucky we are to live in such an harmonious society as exists here in the UK.

:smiley:

When you scratch beneath the surface they’re all as bad as each other. It’s no different to the politicians here, but if you have to choose between Trump or Clinton, Trump is by far the ‘least bad’ of the two. Like someone else said above (or perhaps in another thread), if Clinton had been in I think the relationship the US has with Russia, N Korea, China and various countries in the sandpit would be a LOT worse than what it is currently under Trump; in fact I’d be tempted to go so far as to say the US would be at war with at least one of them. It’s also probably fair to say that a significant amount of Americans voted in Trump as a protest vote because they saw the writing on the wall if Clinton got in.