Donald Trump- what a character!

 Donald Trump- what a character.

You'd have thought you were watching some ridiculously barmy TV sitcom or some bizarre reality TV spectacle where nothing is how it should be. You have been completely detached from the real world, maybe a parallel universe where all the characters and main protagonists were manufactured or just fashioned from clay or some complicated sequence of computer graphics where only cartoons or caricatures live. 

There is a school of thought the new fangled AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology has gone to work and is now rapidly spreading across the USA like wildfire. Regrettably, the most powerful man in the free world is doing his utmost to create chaos and pandemonium wherever he goes. He is relentless, remorseless, a force of nature and doesn't care who he hurts or damages. And yet these are worrying times for not only Europe but the rest of the world.

Donald Trump, surely one of the most ludicrous and unique American presidents of all time, is simply uncontrollable, speaking from the hip, unapologetic, saying exactly what's on his mind and never pausing for breath. He is tactless, disturbingly opinionated, childish according to some, irritable, petulant , bad tempered and determined to do things his way. He's threatening to turn the world upside down and shake it vigorously until such time as people listen to him. And now he wants to take over Greenland. 

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump was once again putting both feet in it and expressing the kind of statements that nobody wanted to hear and only the foolhardy would ever take  seriously. There is something of the Speakers Corner about Trump's personality that could be construed as wildly comical because he may just as well have been delivering his wacky comments from an orange crate in Hyde Park. We may have thought we'd seen everything we needed to know about Trump but seemingly not. 

All of the most important dignitaries from all corners of the globe have gathered together in Davos and must find themselves in some kind of bewildered trance. They watch Trump blathering and blustering forth like some mad, possessed man who believes that world domination may not be that far off. He reprimands Nato like a parent telling off their six year old for climbing trees without their permission. He keeps pontificating about Greenland and slapping trade tariffs on the country rather like some world statesman who only has Greenland's best interests at heart. 

You look at this pretty and picturesque country covered in snow and resembling some perfect winter skiing sanctuary and can barely believe what an American president is telling Greenland what to do. Yesterday, the Danish Prime Minister faced the public and must be wondering whether it's something Denmark has said. You see Trump indirectly blames Denmark for all the troubles in the world. Well, most of them anyway. So we watch in amazement and then rub our eyes convinced this isn't happening. And yet it is. 

Donald Trump, it seems patently clear, has lost the plot. Of course, in his defence, he did broker a ceasefire and peace agreement with Hamas and lovely Israel and it all looked very rosy complexioned. The Ukraine- Russia conflict is a work in progress and Trump is dealing with this war in house, an internal debate that will take time and patience. But the absurdities that are pouring from Trump's mouth at the moment are just unedited and free to air. Nobody has put a stopwatch on Trump and he just loves the sound of his own voice. 

And when we discover the early evening news, we see a man on who the cynics would tell us is on a mind blowing and vast prescription of drugs. Surely the man has lost control of his senses and there has to be a psychologist or therapist  available because Trump is just traipsing through the concrete jungle of the big, wide world and mindlessly trampling all over our common sense and intelligence. So why is he being allowed to get away with this recklessly aggressive attack on diplomacy and sensible thinking?

You keep thinking of Trump's predecessors and how they would have dealt with this horrible fiasco. The late and much missed Jimmy Carter would have been horrified about recent developments. Both Carter and the pacifist likes of Ronald Reagan would have grabbed hold of Trump's suit lapels and told them exactly what they thought of him. Trump is, quite literally, a bull in a china shop, firing off one controversial and explosive remark in double quick time one after another. His comments are wildly inflammatory, fiercely critical, incendiary and almost spitefully provocative. 

He is an incessant talking machine who now tells us, almost incredibly, that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize and should have been gloating about it now rather than blaming everybody else for being overlooked. Trump is fed up for being taken for granted and you can forget about that peace mantra. That was Trump looking for pats on the back, global approval and demanding a knighthood from Britain. 

And then there was the newly minted Board of Peace, a splendid idea that is utterly commendable. Trump stood on his platform as if masquerading as one of the world's greatest leaders and Presidents of  all time. Lincoln, Truman, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, Obama are mere bit part actors and extras in Trump's world. What did they achieve? As far as Trump is concerned he stopped eight wars from flaring up into a monumental global catastrophe and he is the one who should get all the fulsome praise and plaudits. Nobody else but him. 

We all know about Trump's potty claims to being the most handsome man in the world, those narcissistic tendencies which lead us to believe that he must spend at least two hours in the mirror in the morning just combing his hair. Then his make up man or woman joins him in his private dressing room and powders his face until such time as the President gives the thumbs up. The eyebrows are puckered, the suit cleaned so immaculately and meticulously that it looks as if a menswear salesman has made sure he's made the right choice.

And yet although he looks on the large and rotund side, you feel sure that his golfing days more than make up for any deficiencies in his character and general bearing. Trump, every so often, pops over to Scotland during the summer and plays like Jack Nicklaus. Or so he would probably tell anybody who cares to be within earshot of him. Of course, he's just stocky and well built and there's nothing tubby or chubby about his appearance. So listen to Donald Trump because he knows best. 

The recent stories about his notorious friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and a whole host of dubious X rated celebrities, couldn't have done Trump's reputation any good at all. Trump mixes in the company of undesirables, incorrigibles, dastardly people who just massage his ego and tell him he looks wonderful all the time. So it is that we return to the subject of Davos and the World Economic Forum and Trump's relationship with the cream of world politics or perhaps the lack of one. 

You can imagine them now hiding away in their private rooms, mumbling and muttering their astonishment, questioning Trump's presence in the room. There are no elephants in this space but you do wonder if this is just a follow up to the Truman Show and we'll all wake up at 6am in the morning and follow the same routine every day. The year is barely a month old and already the President of the United States is already hitting the ground and running. Who cares about the rest of the world since he's the one man in charge and nobody else matters? Donald Trump - it's over to you. Keep going. You're doing your best.