Donald Trump’s presidency is spiralling into chaos, much as it did during his first White House term, but with far more dangerous consequences at home and abroad. The hope is that we will be rescued from Trump’s petulant imperiousness by Congress, the Supreme Court or US voters. Dream on.

Trump is shedding popularity at home. Future historians may identify the first anniversary of his second term in office on 20 January as the moment when the US President lost the plot. That this milestone should fall during the 250th year of American independence makes it all the sadder and more grim.

But it won’t mark the beginning of the end of Trump’s reign unless he can be stopped. He thinks he has a minimum of three more years to do as he pleases, notwithstanding the flurry of calls to invoke the 25th amendment on the grounds that he is “unfit” for office. They’re just hot air.

Let’s face it, Europe is not going to deploy its big bazooka in the form of trade retaliation against Trump over Greenland’s fate. Ukraine is going to be left to twist in the wind, now Trump realises he will never get his own Nobel Peace Prize. “I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” he told the Norwegian prime minister in a text on Sunday. The “Board of Peace” for Gaza is morphing into a cynical grab for money and power........

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