APRIL
THE President’s flickering attention turned to international affairs and he authorised air and missile strikes on Syrian airbases following Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons.
More than 90 Islamic State militants were killed when the US military dropped the 11-ton “Mother of All Bombs” in Afghanistan. Trump also unleashed a volley of tweets taunting China over its failure to act on North Korea.
Lie of the month: “The trade deficit with Canada is $17billion.” In 2016 the US had a trade surplus of $8billion with its northern neighbour.