Thursday 11 May 2017

President Trump is clearly losing the plot if he's not lost it already.  Even someone like me sitting here in India, who is not materially affected by what he's been doing or how he is conducting himself in the office; I am getting increasingly exasperated and infuriated.  He has been for just over three months, but somehow it feels a lot longer.  Mr. Trump has lied, deceived and obfuscated on so many things so much and for so long that his continuance in such a prestigious office is becoming untenable.  I don't want to even go into the extraordinary removal of the FBI director James Comey, for that would require another write-up altogether.  The other day, I was watching an interview that Donald Trump gave to the BBC in 1998, and believe it or not, he sounded very earnest and convincing in whatever he was saying although that air someone used to getting his way was always there.  A lot of people far more knowledgeable and intelligent than me have analyzed and written about Mr. Trump in recent months, so I can hardly add anything substantive.  I would just like to say that the man carries an enormous chip on his shoulder.  Any decision that he makes, it's more out of spite than any conviction.  Every morning, he unleashes barrages of tweets and people are supposed to take it as Gospel truth.  His undisguised contempt for the traditional media is never a good sign for any democracy.  There are very few competent people in his administration because he likes to surround himself with only yes men.  I could go on and on, but that would be missing the point.  I think the passage of years has not added to the wisdom of Mr. Trump, which comes from experience.  Rather it has worked in the opposite direction, making him ever more surly, petulant and infantile.  More is the pity.

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