Donald Trump

Dr Sean Conley, in one of his appearances outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center – where Donald Trump received his treatment for coronavirus – put his best diplomatic foot forward. What was the president’s mental fitness? We should look at ‘the tweets’ as a gauge, he replied. So I did. “Don’t be afraid […]

There are now fewer than 30 days left until the USA goes to the polls to select its next president: Donald Trump or Joe Biden. That polling day will come just two weeks after Trump should stop self-isolating to protect those around him from catching the deadly illness his White House admitted he’d contracted late […]

As tighter lockdown looms, what does Donald Trump’s response to his coronavirus infection tell us about leadership in a crisis like this, his own and that of others stricken by illness at a crucial moment? How does it compare with Boris Johnson’s behaviour after he too succumbed as the pandemic took hold last spring? And […]

Boris Johnson will not be given a “warm” reception from the White House if Joe Biden wins the presidential election, according to Britain’s former ambassador to Washington. Lord Kim Darroch said there was still some “resentment and unhappiness” over comments Johnson made while mayor of London and in newspaper columns about the former US president. He also said Johnson would […]

As the 2020 US presidential election draws near, close to 209,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and over 7.3 million have tested positive to the virus, including president Donald Trump. The announcement of Trump’s positive diagnosis has led to arguably the most extensive case of collective schadenfreude in human history. Taking pleasure in another person […]

Catching the coronavirus could have cost Donald Trump the US election, Britain’s former ambassador to Washington has claimed. Lord Darroch, who resigned from his role in 2019 after emails were leaked in which he called the Trump administration “clumsy and inept”, said Trump’s brush with Covid-19 will remind American voters of how badly he has […]

US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for coronavirus and are in quarantine, days after the politician mocked his rival for wearing face masks. Trump announced his diagnosis in a tweet in the early hours of Friday, following a positive test from one of his closest aides. Hope Hicks returned a […]

Equalities minister Liz Truss has refused to criticise the president of the United States when he refused to condemn white supremacists in the first 2020 US election debate. During the debate on Wednesday evening, the president was asked by moderator Chris Wallace whether he was now willing to forthrightly condemn white supremacists and militia groups who […]

It was more a source of sadness than surprise in the USA last week when the indomitable but very frail and elderly Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, giving the Republican president and senate a chance to rush-confirm another right-wing judge onto the bench before the (extremely) imminent election. It was a source of some […]

Comedian Michael Spicer has said the incompetence of politicians in recent years handed him his career “with a little bow on top”. Spicer shot to fame in 2019 with his satirical sketches about a political adviser speaking in the ear of public figures as their interviews, using real-life footage, invariably fall apart. However, the 42-year-old […]

Former Trump aide turned foe Anthony Scaramucci tells editor-at-large ALASTAIR CAMPBELL that the key to defeating the president is in understanding, not condemning, his voters. Well, that was a strange and unexpected surprise, an email out of the blue from someone I would never have had down to be on my side in a fight, […]

The question of whether Donald John Trump, the 45th president of the United States is the worst the country has ever had has long been a valid one.  Trump filed for re-election the day of his inauguration, just the first of the precedent-breaking moves that he has made. In doing this he made his very presidency […]

Donald Trump’s focus on golf – rather than the coronavirus pandemic – has been given the Led By Donkeys treatment after the campaigners used soundbites from the president to make their point. The number of times the US president played golf during the coronavirus pandemic and the total Covid-19 deaths in the United States was projected […]

Thousands of anti-Donald Trump posters inspired by Second World War public information designs have been plastered across Washington DC. One of the images features Trump in boxer shorts branded with swastikas – a version of a poster of Adolf Hitler with his pants down. The original bore the message Let’s catch him with his ‘panzers’ […]