For once I agree with the Brits and the Russians

[RealBlackStuff]

Usually the Irish have little to no love for the Brits, but this time I totally agree with this one (and its originating website).
Everyone should read this entry in the journal of a grumpy old man.

[axur-delmeria]

Exasperatingly true.

[Cigarguy]

Can't agree more but there are those who will drink the Lysol.

[Scorpion8]

Sounds like it was written by someone on the losing end of a Trump deal. Fact is he's doing great things for the country even if all he does is undo the mess the last bozo put us in. Obama had charm? Yea, like a snake slithering thru your wallet while he smiles and tells you it's in your best interest. Fact is the Euros love a socialist, which Obama was, and Trump is not.

A dissenting opinion.

[Ibthink]

Fact is the Euros love a socialist, which Obama was, and Trump is not.

Obama famously saved the Wall Street during the financial crisis to keep the capitalist system running – what a socialist thing to do.

If we want to use the reductive & wrong American definition of the word "socialist", Trump probably is more of a socialist because he is against free trade – and free trade is an essential cornerstone of the free market economy. Obama was very much in favor of free trade, which makes him less "socialist".

Probably because Obama is a liberal, not a socialist.

@topic,
its certainly a well written text. And while British etiquette differs from German one, I think most of the thoughts about Trump apply to Germany as well.

[TonyJZX]

Obama is a centralist corporatist. Just like Biden just like most of the DNC. They want to keep the status quo.

You may think he's a socialist due to the ACA but that was Romney's baby and Obama was thinking more about the economic benefits of single payer more than anything else. See his handling of the DAPL and the TPP.

Look closely at the Clintons... these people worth hundreds of millions loves wall street, the banks, the apples googles, the pharmas, the waltons.

The DNC would herd you all into the ovens if it means their beloved corporate interests could make their quarterlies, they just wont say it to your face unlike the GOP.

People deserve the govt. they vote for.

[ajkula66]

The DNC would herd you all into the ovens if it means their beloved corporate interests could make their quarterlies, they just wont say it to your face unlike the GOP.

Ah the lovely choice between lung cancer and brain tumour comes to mind...

[Jake.Werecat]

So darn true. It saddens me deeply that one of the biggest and most famous countries of the world is ruled by a primitive jerk. One must be blind not to see what a shame and disgrace Trump is to America. But I also have to admit I find this, soaked with British humor, article pretty funny and entertaining.

[dr_st]

One must be blind not to see what a shame and disgrace Trump is to America.

One must be blind to not see many ridiculous and sometimes downright atrocious things that exist in our world without "the masses" expressing dissatisfaction, or even genuine surprise.

Of all such things, I wouldn't rank Trump's presidency as being anywhere close to being the most shameful, disgraceful or damaging.

[shawross]

Everyone is arguing whether satan or the devil is better to have running the world.

They are all zionists and they all work for a small country in the middle east. The US tax payers through their taxes and the Fed Reserve send this country billions of dollars.

Zion is just another arm of Bolshevism and they control everything including Europe, China, India, Russia and the US.

The ultimate plan is a one world government and by the time they are finished the world will be begging for it.

[dr_st]

Like, for example, you have people who genuinely believe the above to be true.

[TonyJZX]

Israel is largely irrelevant... if the US wants to donate $3 bn. year to them and they get a lot of that back in military contracts then that's fine.

If the DNC support them thru aipac and the GOP support them as a death cult evangelical thing then all the power to them.

What does that all matter when the US tip trillions into the stock market in a day as if its nothing.

I think the best summary of Trump is in his own words... the sitting president has total authority and yet no responsibility on anything.

Enjoy have no oversight on half a trillion getting tipped into various corporations as part of the stimulous package.

America is socialist - socialist for corporates but hey, enjoy your $1,200 cheque, should last you 10 weeks... hope you make your rent, mortgage. car note lol...

[MikalE]

I did. I bought an A31p.