Terry Prone: A shrugging dislike for Donald Trump has turned to 'terror'

It’s a fear added to by the fact that one of the US president’s close supporters — Elon Musk — responded to an event which carries profound life-and-death implications for the people of Ukraine with a laughing/crying emoji

US vice president JD Vance, right, speaks with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, as US president Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office at the White House, on Friday, in Washington. Picture: Mystyslav Chernov/AP

IT WAS as unexpected as the famous upending of that BBC TV report, only not as funny. 

That report showed Robert Kelly, a professor at Pusan National University, South Korea, in his home office, addressing a camera. He is soberly reporting world events and analysing policy, live, on a serious BBC programme.