We need to DESTROY the enemy. The media is the enemy of the people according to the don. Except what will he do without them?

We are ALREADY the laughingstock of the world Durdle! The main ring of the 3-ring circus is controlled by the main clown whose grip is getting ever tighter. This monstrously evil and heartless man is swallowing up everything he can that was good about America. He gets fatter each day. His appetite grows as his body becomes rounder. SIGH. Thank you for your reply. His hatred is as big as his terror. He will never change. We await the knight in shining armor or the DEUS EX MACHINA. In the meantime we dread each day because the loose cannon is getting nervier and pushier. Thank you for your reply and Happy Sunday!   :)

 This is one of the rare times I'm gonna disagree with thee Durdle. They have to be laughing at those who voted for donjohn and continue to stand by him, defend him, support him, adore him. Of course in the laughter at devoted worshippers there is also the knowledge they are the cause of the misery enveloping the United States and the world so the laughter is tempered with sympathy for the rest of us who despise the man and who are suffering because of him and them. Thank you for your reply Durdle and Happy Monday! :)

I take your point, Rosie, but I don't think anyone outside of America is blaming Trump's supporters for anything, or even ridiculing them.

Most of us realise he had considerable support from people who genuinely believed his policies would be good for them (rightly or wrongly as it turns out), and anyway it's not what his Government is doing within America that worries or amuses us, but his foreign political and economic policies and behaviour.  

Thank you for that insight Durdle. I appreciate it. You don't blame them but we do. Without them he would only be an amusing if irritating footnote to the 2016 election. A clown who was an also-ran. Of course the view from inside is not the same as the view from the outside. A question I shall ask. I do appreciate that reply though. I'm sure his admiring worshippers appreciate that you give them the benefit of the doubt and do not blame them. SIGH. Thank you for your reply and Happy Tuesday! :)

Did Donald Trump have any previous, significant  political or diplomatic-service experience, or does the American system allow anyone to stand for election to presidency without that? 

By contrast, all British Prime and other Ministers are also serving constituency Members of Parliament, and they all start as such MPs, having been selected by their local branches of their Parties. The Parliamentary parties choose their own leaders who can then become PM if the Party wins a General Election - the final say at least on appointment to Cabinet (senior, executive) Minister is by the Prime Minister. So they are all elected publicly, but as Members of Parliament, not as Ministers. It means by the time an MP becomes also PM, he or she has had a lot of governmental and parliamentary experience. They might still make mistakes or mismanage the country, but at least they are not elected straight in at top level without appropriate background. And they cannot control the Civil Service in a political sense, except arguably by budget cuts or rises, as its individual departments report to their appropriate Ministers but are independent of Government.

Perhaps Trump's biggest errors of judgement seen from outside of America and beyond actual party politics, are the glaringly obvious way he hires or fires his equivalents of Ministers and Civil Service departmental heads, and his use of Twitter and news manipulation, so it is very hard to know what of his pronouncements are facts, opinions or lies.

Unfortunately one effect of "social media" is the way they encourage their users into mutual manipulation, polarising, herding and loss of analytical abilities or even individuality. This goes far beyond anything the established Press and broadcasters in democracies might or might not do, and I suspect Trump knows and exploits it.