Are the Brits excited about Donald Trump's visit planned for this July?
Sadly, few people are excited about Donald Trump’s visit to the UK for all the reasons mentioned below - he is not a man to be admired, respected or liked; in fact, I can’t think of a single positive word to say about him. For most of the time he seems barely literate and has trouble stringing more than a few words together - and most of those he does manage to get out make little sense to the listener. He speaks without engaging his brain and forgets what he has said moments later, so could well be inherently dangerous; he also tells extraordinary lies, lies that can easily be proved to be lies (his victory, voting numbers, numbers attending his inauguration - on, and on and on they go).But, and this is a very big BUT, he is still leader of the American people and, like it or not, more than 57 million people voted for him to be President (OK, that’s only 28.5% of the eligible voters but it’s nearly the population of the UK).So, disliked by many - if not most - in my (reluctant) opinion, he should still be accorded the respect that his position holds, as representative of the USA.The irony of it all is that, in the past, many cruel dictators have come to Britain - and have been accorded a State visit - yet no-one has demonstrated against them. Since her accession, on the recommendation of her government of the day, the Queen has met, and hosted - among others - Nicolae Ceausescu (Romania), Bashar Al-Assad (Syria), Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), Idi Amin (Uganda 1971).And now we have Trump, who is a sleazeball; who, most of the time, behaves in an extremely unpleasant way yet, as far as I know, has not killed or tortured his enemies, nor gone to war on his people, or done any of the terrible things all of the above have done - and yet his visit is polarizing the nation.For what it is worth, I don’t think there should be any demonstrations against the man, whatever sort of character he has (and I can’t stand him, even his voice makes me cringe), because he is President of the USA and, as such, deserves respect.