If nothing
else, we can credit the US electoral college (rather than, you know,
an actual majority of the electorate) with providing us an
interesting limit case study: just what will it take to sink Trump?
I mean, here
we are, less than half a week in and we have a sparsely attended
inauguration followed by a full 1% of the total US population turning
out in protest across the country; sister protests in solidarity on
every continent including Antarctica;
Trump's press secretary (the oddly animatronic Sean Spicer) throwing
a hissy fit at the press corps for daring to accurately report the
low turn out; the US just doesn't have a diplomatic corps right now
since Trump fired all the ambassadors without replacing them; and,
Trump banning the National Parks Service from Twitter after they
dared to post an unedited photo comparing the attendance of Trump and
Obama's inaugurations.
Still,
credit The Donald with something, he's made me feel sorry for Theresa
May.
Thanks,
Trump!
No, but
seriously, folks: May has been banging on for ages about how once we
piss of the EU and fail to get a trade deal for after Brexit (which
will happen since this stupid old bat thinks threatening the people
you're negotiating with is a good idea) that we'll be able to get a
good trade deal with the US. In fact, she's going to Washington next
week to talk to Trump about that very subject.
So what
she's got to do is get a trade deal out of a man infamous for
reneging on his deals, who just delivered an enormous policy speech
where he basically said that he's going to look after US interests to
the exclusion of all else.
And we don't
have a US ambassador right now so how we're going to carry out the
formal negotiations is anyone's guess.
By Twitter,
perhaps?
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