TRUMP IN BRITAIN – AT 7:46 A.M. ET:   President Trump, king of the insult, emperor of the undiplomatic gesture, is in Great Britain, which prides itself on pomp, circumstance, and smooth diplomacy.   Trump is not popular in Britain, but thus far any protests have been muted.  Piers Morgan gives a sharp analysis of this unusual American president.  From Fox: 

English journalist Piers Morgan reacted to his country's public displays of protest against President Donald Trump and its love for former President Barack Obama.

"He's a rare president," Morgan, editor-in-chief of Daily Mail, said. "[Trump has] a complete revulsion of what he sees as conventional political posturing."

Morgan also told Martha MacCallum that Obama is seen as a "saintly figure" in much of the United Kingdom, while many detest Trump.

However, Morgan invited Britons to take a closer look at their love for Obama: "He deported three million illegal immigrants... [and] kept Guantanamo Bay open for eight years."

"If [Britons] actually looked at him pragmatically, what did he actually achieve?" Morgan asked.

He said that Obama's tenure was "massively overhyped" as much as Trump's has been the reverse.

Morgan said that, much like the United States is polarized between the liberal coasts and more conservative Middle America, Britain becomes less progressive as you move north from liberal London.

MacCallum noted that London is where much of the anti-Trump protests are taking place.

Morgan said that Trump is definitively honored to be meeting Queen Elizabeth II, who he said was one of the president's Scotch-born mother Mary's "idols."

COMMENT:  Well said.  The overhyped Obama, interestingly enough, is kind of fading away in the United States.  Do you hear him mentioned much?  Do people weep over his absence?  For eight years Barack Obama set American back.  The jury is out on Trump, but the man is getting things done, and he certainly fights for us.

I hope he doesn't insult the Queen, or offer to redo her palace at a discount.  Other than that, what can go wrong?

July 13, 2018