An Englishman Wants To Know: Does America Deserve a Donald Trump?

This is not a political contribution. I would like that to be understood from the start or, as this is an American thing I’m writing on, the ‘get go’ as, for some unfathomable reason, some Americans are apt to say. Get go? Who the hell came up with ‘get go’? Must have been Trump. Well, everything else seems to be Trump or it does if you read the British newspapers or listen to British media anyway.

The British people have no idea what so ever what the British political establishment think of Trump. We assume they don’t think much of him but, then again, we assume they are aware that they are elected to represent us and not swan off with their lovely pay and pensions and not give a monkeys about us so – oops. We actually don’t really know what our politicians think about Trump as even when they express an opinion we just think ‘Yeah, right, you’re a politician so blah blah blah’.

I certainly don’t claim to speak for or on behalf of Britain but I do listen to the largest talk radio in Britain. It’s called LBC (London’s Biggest Conversation) but it is certainly not confined to London.

Callers come in from all over the globe – primarily from Britain but not entirely.

As LBC is the only talk radio with listening figures that most music stations would drool over it seems reasonable to believe that the opinions of the callers are at least reasonably representative of the people in Britain.

Admittedly, as there are no controls over who calls in apart from the research team who decide who actually makes it on air but a few loonies do get past the researchers and spout garbage.

After all, they’ve let me on a few times 🙂

Mind you, in fairness to the research team the callers don’t always initially sound like loonies – apart from a chap who spent several weeks ringing up insisting he had a Martian living in his bottom.

Over the last few months of listening to LBC I can only conclude that, bizarrely in my opinion, Britain seems to be split down the middle regarding Trump.

Now this alone is not a worry as Britain is not potentially electing him but it is a worry as it appears America is somewhat split too regarding Trump.

Most sensible people in Britain consider Trump a maverick at best. Most realise that he is a misogynistic racist lunatic but, oddly, a percentage of these still pop up on radio saying “No, he shouldn’t have said that” (what ever crazy objectionable thing he has said) “but he speaks for the people”.

Precisely what people he speaks for is a mystery to Brits and I include those who make such a statement.

Trump is not only a misogynistic racist, he is also an anomaly.

Britain has it’s own anomaly in Nigel Farage – who, coincidentally, has shared a platform or two with Trump but there the similarity ends.

Farage will go down in history as the politician who caused Britain to leave the European Union, He succeeded, mainly, because The EU politicians are rightly perceived as arrogant and out of touch with reality. Farage played on this and Britain voted to leave.

Whether this proves a good thing or not remains to be seen

Had Farage been a serious contender for Prime Minister and UKIP serious contenders for government the British voter would have run a mile.

You see we in Britain like mavericks, especially if they are good at selling or presenting themselves on television. Actually, I suspect, Americans probably do as well.

The difference seems to be that, generally, the British know when to stop. They know when the point is being reached where there is too much of a good thing going on.

If Farage had ever had any realistic chance of becoming Prime Minister the Brits would, without a shadow of a doubt, pulled the rug from under him.

We pulled the rug from Labour’s former leader Ed Miliband because he didn’t look Prime Ministerial and couldn’t eat a bacon sandwich sensibly. We will pull the rug out from under Jeremy Corbyn, the current Labour leader as, well, do I even need to explain if you’ve ever seen or heard the man?

The thing is, neither Miliband nor Corbyn are remotely as maverick or unacceptable as Trump yet Trump carries on.

Obviously there have been occasions when we’ve completely cocked it up, Tony Blair ever springs to mind, but, generally, Brits know when to hit the brake.

Is it really possible that Trump could win the Presidency? A man who wants to be President of the USA so he can say “Hey! I’m President!” without even the vaguest idea of what it entails to be President?

More worryingly I doubt he cares that he has no idea what being President entails. He just wants the title. The grand prize.

So, does America deserve Donald Trump? Well, frankly, yes.

If you didn’t deserve him he wouldn’t be where he is now would he?

Don’t assume, America, that just because he is an awful excuse for a human being that he won’t become your President. George Bush Snr and Jnr did didn’t they? All right, they weren’t half as bad as Trump perhaps and, I have to reluctantly admit, neither was Blair over here but they made it didn’t they?

If, and I hope and pray it’s a bloody BIG if, Donald Trump and his hamster make it to the White House it will be entirely your own fault America.

You have allowed it, I beg your pardon, him, to become the politically Frankensteinian creature that he has become and if he replaces Obama in the Presidential bed you will only have yourselves to blame.

Having said that I do like you so I haven’t the heart to say you deserve him. Even if, in some strange way, you do.

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