The Donald isn’t as daft as he looks

DONALD TRUMP isn’t as daft as he looks, you know.

And yes, I can hear all you smart Alecs snorting, “Well he’d have to be pretty stupid to be as daft as that”.

But that’s not as clever as you think it is because any fool can make a joke about a man who has dyed himself orange, gummed some hay to his head and caught the end of his tie in his zip. So bear with me.

The leader of what I’m still determined to think of as the free world has been getting it in the neck for having his staff turn over faster than Abe Lincoln in his grave.

People in the know – i.e. all the ones who said he’d never become president, that Britain would never leave the EU, that Jeremy Corbyn would never last as Labour leader – they’re all saying there is chaos in the White House.

And I’ll admit that when the president hired a character from Carry On Up The Mafia as his communications director then promptly fired him, my first thought was not that this was strong and stable government.

But I thought again. Trump was elected by people who felt left behind by globalisation, who’d

Creating jobs, putting democracy into the hands of the people

seen their jobs disappear and their communities with them. He promised jobs. So this is obviously all part of his cunning plan.

If he continues hiring and firing at this rate, by the time he’s finished his second term in office everyone in the US dole queue will have had a job at the White House.

It might not have lasted long, but they’ll have it on their CV and they’ll qualify for redundancy pay and a pension.

By hiring complete dopes from his entourage to begin with, Trump is simply preparing the ground so that people will not only be used to a revolving-door employment policy, they’ll actually be relieved when he gets round to bringing in Joe Schmoe from Scabsville, Michigan.

All right, Joe might not have graduated from kindergarten and nobody’s quite sure what it is he smells of, but he won’t be Secretary of State long enough to start a war with anyone. And then his sister can have a go.

It’s brilliant, really – creating jobs and putting democracy directly into the hands of the people.

Of course, it could never happen here. Could it, Jeremy?