Did you notice the hat worn by Trump’s wife at the inauguration ceremony?

It was hard to miss. It was the most eye-catching feature in all the pictures, distracting attention from her husband and all VIPs. Could this have been her artful intention?

It hid her face, making her almost unrecognisable.

Perhaps that was her intention. She did not wish to be there, associated with that great orange booby.

Tell us, Mrs Trump, what attracted you to this misogynistic, narcissistic, arrogant, bombastic, unintelligent, orange multi-billionaire?

She is not unique in making odd choices; Americans do choose  such duds for the Presidency.

You would think that after tricky Dicky Watergate Nixon, voters would try to be more discriminating, but there followed a sorry batch, including Bill Clinton, lying womaniser and dubious businessman, semi-literate George Dubya, Brylcreem boy Ronnie Reagan, second-rate actor and favourite of Thatcher; Obama, who came in on a cloud of dreams and squandered his two terms; Joe Biden, who was old beyond his years, spoke without opening his mouth, slurring his speech so much that it was soparific for the listener and for himself. He spent his final year propped up like El Cid, dead but not yet embalmed.

Trump, in his first term, was so unspeakably bad that the screwball American electorate was bound to call him back, the first felon to be elected President.

Let’s remember that during the covid pandemic, from the Oval Office, Trump, this self-proclaimed genius, offered his advice to the people of the USA, saying that, as bleach kills all germs, fend off covid by drinking bleach. His own chief medic felt compelled to rush to the microphones in order advise the public against drinking bleach. What a pity that Trump did not take his own advice.

In his new term, he has not disappointed us. While the fires were still burning in Los Angeles, he repeated his denial of global warming and sloganised again: “drill, baby, drill.”

His control of the US supreme Court enabled him to escape justice for his multiple offences and – so that he would have plenty of other felons to keep him company outside gaol – he issued pardons for all the thugs who stormed the Capitol at his bidding in 2021, in his effort to overturn the decision of the electorate and give himself another 4 years in the White House. He has even fired the Justice Department and FBI officials involvrd in the proceedings against himself and the brainless rioters who followed his call in taking over the Capitol.

This is the criminal idiot put back in power by the American people. Although nearly 70 per cent of them have found god andregularly go to church, they put a convicted crook  in the White house.  Perhaps that’s not so surprising; after all, 11 per cent of them think the Earth is flat and 40 per cent reject evolution and think everything was created in just 6 days, precisely as it says in the Bible. And let’s not forget that over 40 per cent of these Christian households own at least one gun.

He has put Cuba back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, although its chief export – which is able to escape the US embargo imposed for the past 60 years as a consequence of the Cuban army having the audacity to fefeat an American-sponsored attempted invasion and coup d’etat  back in 1961– is medical aid for Third World countries.

 Denmark will suffer his ire for refusing to sell him Greenland. Panama will suffer for refusing to give him the canal, as will Canada for not wishing to become a US state under his divine rule.

Even the sycophantic Starmer has got up his nose for wanting to grant long- overdue independence to one of Britain’s last remaining colonies, the Chagos archipelago.

However, Obsequious Starmer has given thought to a State Visit for Trump.

The village idiot would love riding The Mall in a golden coach (perhaps with Melania reprising that hat) and eating his McDonald’s triple-decker cheeseburger from a gold dish at a Buck Pal State Dinner.

But Starmer may remember that when Trump was invited by Theresa May for a State visit, the late Queen made clear her dislike of the village idiot and tens of thousands around the country demonstrated that the President was not welcome and humiliated him. Over Trafalgar Square, in perfect weather, there floated a blimp depicting him as a  giant orange baby in nappies.

As I write this, the village idiot has been joined at the white House by that other maniac Netanyahu and, standing shoulder to shoulder with his visitor, Trump said he would clear all Palestinians from Gaza, clear all the rubble and make the Strip a new Riviera of the Middle East.

Well, he bears much responsibility for the rubble, because it was created by the Israeli military, using 85,000 tons of bombs, plus other armaments supplied by Trump, with a lot of help from the British government.

The proposal to despatch all the Gazan Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan was music to the ears of Netanyahu, who has spent the past two years attempting to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its  population of Palestinians, so that his Jewish settler armed thugs can move in.The fact that such a displacement of a population would be a war crime under the Geneva Conventions would not deter this pair of criminals, who have already broken every international law in their war on the Palestinians of Gaza

No sooner was the Gaza ceasefire settled than Israel resumed its killing spree with aerial attacks on northern Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon, without a word of criticism from the Donald.

Our insipid Prime Minister and his gutless Foreign Secretary welcomed the ceasefire, but have said not a word about Israel’s infringements and keep up the supply of weapons to Israel.

Even his oval Office staff were stunned by his plan to empty Gaza, give it to Netanyahu and turn it into a Trumpian tourist paradise.

Netanyahu and his  crazy extremist Zionist government thought Christmas had come early. This total genocide of the Palestinians and ethnic cleansing of Gaza has been their ambition all along and uncle Donald is giving it to them on a plate.

Some of his officials, foreseeing the slight difficulties, have been trying deftly to roll back a little. What would happen to the 2.4 million Gazans who live there? They will be moved to purpose-built homes in Egypt and Jordan, says he, but he had not thought to consult Egypt and Jordan and was nevertheless miffed by their negative responses.

Once emptied of people, the total devastation that he and Netanyahu have created in Gaza will be cleared and a new paradise will be developed, with Trump no doubt making a packet from much of the real estate

Sane people are hoping this  is nothing more than an idiot’’s demagogic dream.

But this dangerous monster has not retracted

Meanwhile, millions of repeatedly displaced Palestinians are struggling back to whatever is left of their homes, but not the  47,000 who were killed by the bombing and shelling, including 18,000 children and not the thousands more whose dismembered remains lie under the rubble.

Not on the long march home are the ten injured children per day who have one or both legs amputated  – often without anaesthetic due to the Israeli blockade and cynical fun and games played with humanitarian supplies at the border crossing points.HERE