TRUMP’S EMPTY PLEDGES

DONALD Trump surely wasn’t talking about the many pre-election promises that seem to have slipped his mind when he declared recently ‘the forgotten will be forgotten no longer’.

The reality TV star reimagined himself as a political heavyweight and “leader of the free world” while tilting at the windmills of power – thus proving the so- called American dream pertains not only to those who are fast asleep.

His subsequent victory he compared with Brexit, and then some.

As Brexit has become a portmanteau for a mental vacation to limbo land, into which we’ve deposited critical faculties along with the sunblock - with Article 50 the small print terms and conditions of departure along a yellow brick road to a neither-herenor-there sovereign utopia - a Trumpstyle US constitutional comb-over awaits.

Meanwhile, to show the UK body politic how wrong it was to opt out of the EU, is the insinuation once again into public life of Tony Blair - who may just want to finagle his audience, yet again, in order to save us from the consequences of independent thought and shape our world view.

To the many who have lived in wonder of an earth that is a heavenly paradise, but came to believe that they’re trapped on the wrong planet and need to find a way to get off, usually I’d suggest perspective is all. But, in our post-truth (cognitive dissonant) reality, the eyes, like the mind, can’t see what the heart is blind to.