Trump visit would have stretched our hospitality

So King Baby isn’t coming. We can all, starting with Leo Varadkar, exhale as one.

A giant sigh of Irish relief can gust through the land, knowing that our good manners as a nation does not mean we have to extend any céad míle fáiltes to the international equivalent of a hideous distant relative turning up uninvited for Sunday lunch. Drunk. In Trump’s case, on power.

“Real power is fear,” Trump said in an interview with Bob Woodward in April 2016.