January 20th, 2029… that’s 1,473 days away. A little over four years more, then, of the kind of childish, braggardly, nonsensical, dangerous, incoherent, sneery, confused and just plain bonkers stuff we saw flowing out of the glowering, tangerine figure of Donald J Trump in his warm-up presidential press conference.
One minute, he’s on about showers with no water coming out of them, the next he’s concerned about the role Hezbollah (?!) played in the January 6th riots.
And, just when the assembled journalists think they can’t cope with any more cobblers, he solemnly puts the United States on the road to war with Panama and Denmark, plus a crippling economic war with Canada – unless it agrees to become the 51st state of the Union.
What to say? How are we going to cope with the second Trump presidency?
Remember, if you will, that in his first chaotic term, Trump had guard rails and responsible public servants to …