It’s the lunchtime bulletin on the BBC News channel.

Lyse Doucet is being asked to comment upon the latest semi-coherent ramblings from the orange idiot.

With an admirably straight face, she shifts slightly in her chair and gathers her thoughts for a second or two, finally saying, “In recent weeks it’s been increasingly difficult to make any sense of the statements coming from President Trump”.

At this point, a mouthful of freshly brewed tea is expelled from my mouth through pursed lips in the general direction of my keyboard.

In one short sentence of quiet understatement she has raised the perplexing puzzle of why Trump isn’t seen for what he is by those whose job it supposedly is to look after the United States Of America – his government.

Are they all blind? Are they all dim? Are they all in it for what they can personally get? Are they all just Christian religious nut-jobs on a par with the Ayatollah brigade?

What was it he said? “Now’s your chance to get rid of this regime” I think it was.

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