Sunday 20th May

It really is impossible to keep a straight face.  Every time he just creases me up.  And mostly it is unscripted – in fact, the very fact that he cannot keep to the script, but goes off like a firecracker, is the funniest.  And we cannot get enough of him.  Or maybe we have really had far too much of him already.

Donald Trump is the funniest man on the planet.  And of course the irony is that if he were not President of the United States nobody would be watching him in the first place.  When he first made his bid to become a Candidate he was laughed at, but not for the same reason.  Nobody gave him a chance.  He was a complete outsider.  Okay, a very rich outside and a TV Celebrity (our very own but much nastier Alan Sugar).  And he was vicious and ruthless, saying anything about his opponents (originally all in the Republican party) to win enough votes to stay in the race.  And he kept on winning, despite Pussygate, despite insulting dead U. S. Muslim soldiers, despite promising and then refusing to release his tax returns.  In fact the worse it looked for him the better his ratings got.  He bullied his way to the Republican Nomination, even though most of them hated him (and still do I expect).

And then he bullied Hilary (not exactly the perfect Candidate herself), prowling around the stage and glowering at her in the debates, threatening to put her in prison even.  And despite winning 3 million less votes than her he won more states and became POTUS.  Even here he made us laugh as he declared it was the greatest victory by any President in history.  The very blatant-ness of his lies is the secret of his comic success.  If he told half lies or minor indiscretions or just exaggerations he wouldn’t be so funny.  And he says it all with such a straight face – one could almost think that he believes what he says.  No, you can’t be serious.  Surely, he doesn’t believe what he is saying – go on, you’re kidding me.

And yesterday he told his best one.  He declared that he was the most persecuted President in U.S. History – no other had been treated so badly.  He completely ignored the assassinations of Kennedy and Lincoln, the derision Bush received because of Iraq, or Nixon of course.  Anyway I can’t wait for his next performance….and hope against hope that he isn’t impeached and we lose the greatest comedy show on earth.