17 March 2025, 15:00

By David Buik

Very few people I know would choose President Donald J Trump as their guest of honour at their dinner table on a Saturday night.

I wouldn’t.

However, for the life of me, I have no idea why the liberal-left media here in Old Blighty, luminaries such as Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart to name but a few, get so outraged and fired up at the political antics of the 47th President of the US.

They appear inconsolable on issues such as immigration, tariffs, DOGE (cuts in public expenditure), the embracement of Putin and his disgraceful despotic regime, to the exclusion of its European allies, whilst at the same time almost spitting Zelenskyy out with contempt and unsurprisingly conveying a perceived lack of sympathy for Gaza. We must also not forget Trump’s outrageous designs on Panama and Greenland.

As far as I can see there is nothing on Trump’s agenda that the public at large was not warned about. Also, I am none too sure that Trump is remotely bothered by what we in the UK and those in Europe think of his policies or actions. We were all warned about ‘America First’ and ‘MAGA!’

Hopefully the ‘penny has finally dropped.’ Those US voters who voted Republican are on the whole pleased that Trump is starting to deliver what he promised. The rest of the world for the time being, ‘can go to hell in a hand cart.’

Very sadly the US can no longer be relied upon as an ally and the UK probably does not enjoy that special relationship anymore. There are still a few diplomatic crumbs that fall, metaphorically, from Lazarus’s table; the main one for the time being is our........

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