Donald’s in a state of disunity

BARELY a year into his presidency, Donald Trump’s term in office looks closer to the end than the beginning.

Michael Wolff’s new book Fire And Fury paints a picture of a president in chaos and whose closest advisers don’t believe he is up to the job.

It suggests Donald Trump neither thought he would win the presidency, nor did he want to.

The book has inspired wall-to-wall coverage on mainstream media in the United States, with President Trump resorting to increasingly desperate tweets on social media – not to deny the claims made against him, but to decry the author and his sources.

The press that he dismisses as ‘fake news’ has the bit between its teeth. Donald Trump’s mental health is now being called into question.

In the background, special investigator Robert Mueller continues his investigation into President Trump’s alleged links to Russia and its involvement in the election.

The media in the United States has much more freedom than we do here – and the onslaught the president is facing is something I doubt any British politician could withstand.

Within in the next few weeks, Donald Trump is due to give the annual State of the Union speech to Congress. He may be the only president in history to deliver two State of the Union addresses in one day – his first and his last.