What an impossibly ungracious man he is, really. It’s not news, of course, but he does somehow have the ability to be so uncouth, so impolite, that it really takes your breath away.

You can dress Donald Trump up, you can present him as some kind of semi-functioning human being, you can sane-wash his policies so that they look more normal than they really are. You can do all these things, but he will always perform down to the very basest expectation you can imagine of him.

The really pertinent aspect of Trump’s United Nations (UN) speech yesterday was not how dangerous it was, but how pitiful. You felt your toes curl in embarrassment for any Americans who still maintained a sense of their country’s better nature.

All of the political dynamics melted into the air and you were just left

See Full Page