Is it up to President Obama to call the Chinese leader and apologize for the PET insult? Someone needs to do it. Whom would you suggest?

Recently we had an Australian prime minister who was every bit as inept as Trump. He wasn't unintelligent but he didn't have much common sense and was forever saying things that angered the leaders of other countries. (He threatened Putin with physical violence when he attended the G8 summit in Australia but, of course, when the time came he was very silent. Fortunately for him.)

A journalist described one of his clangers as "another cheerful Tony Abbott demi-gaffe". Why cheerful? Because he was so self-obsessed that he never realised that his comments were inane. Yogi Berra wouldn't have come out with half the things he said.

The big problem with Trump, of course, is that his foolishness is backed by the US Military and, more frightening, the US dollar. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at December 3, 2016 2:45 PM MST