Michael Clifford: Dazed and confused in the Trump world

It’s one thing to have a sociopathic buffoon running the most powerful country in the world, but quite another when everybody around him pretends that he is, as he would have it himself, a very stable genius, writes Michael Clifford

Trump has done everything to ensure that he will be booted out at the next election, yet could easily return to the White House for a second term. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump has done everything to ensure that he will be booted out at the next election, yet could easily return to the White House for a second term. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

When it all gets to be too much of an evening, there’s nothing like switching over to CNN. Sure, things are as bad, if not a lot worse, in America, but at least the news over there has a demented version of escapism in Mr Trump.