Trump has Oval Office in his sights
EVERY democratic country has the right to choose and elect their own head of state and that’s how it should be.
Foreign countries should not seek to influence the outcome of such elections and in the main this unwritten is respected the world over.
However not every country is as powerful or influential as the United States of America and in a little over six weeks voters across that huge country will elect the next person to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office in the White House.
What will result for the world over the next four years will follow on from that outcome.
In January 2017 Donald Trump could be sworn in as President of the United States of America. Frankly that thought is frightening. His campaign has been a whirlwind, which has round up a vortex of hate and vitriol which we have never seen the like of before.
He has attacked women, he has attacked religious and racial minorities, he has attacked neighbouring countries, he has incited hatred and he has incited violence.
He is undoubtedly the most divisive candidate ever put before the people in a Presidential poll.
They say about Marmite, you either love it or hate, well Donald Trump is Marmite with an elephant dose of steroids.
As much as he is hated and abhorred by a section of the American public and a greater proportion of the international community, he is loved and adored by a huge swathe of American voters, certainly enough to make the outcome of November’s election too close to call.
They see him as their saviour and believe that he will make America great again.
That is rhetoric is off the scale compared to the usual parameters and boundaries of a presidential election, but doesn’t matter to his supporters, as they say all politicians lie anyhow.
He cannot pull up the drawbridge to America and the world however. We live in a truly global village and the era of isolationism is well and truly over.
America is a global power and how it will relate, communicate and do business with the rest of the world with Donald Trump in the White House is a concern for the majority beyond the shores of the United States.
Perhaps his campaigning is all a trick to win the election and he will steer back to a safer centre ground once ensconced in the Oval Office.
I wouldn’t like to back that particular theory with bad money however.
If this all was the latest twist in an episode of the West Wing or House of Card s it would be thrilling and entertaining but it’s real life and a nightmare could be just about to visit us all.