Trump dashes all hopes - Bombastic and unhinged

THE phrase, “campaign in poetry, govern in prose” attributed to New York governor Mario Cuomo, has been turned on its head by the US President-elect Donald Trump.

Any hope that between his defeat of Hillary Clinton last November and assuming the most powerful office in the world on January 20 he might have acquired a presidential status were dashed yesterday during the first press conference he gave since his election.

Mr Trump was as combative, bombastic and as apparently unhinged as ever, accusing his country’s intelligence agencies of publishing false allegations about him and comparing their activities to propogandists in Nazi Germany.