A regime of the amoral narcissist

Trump has little time and even less interest in what he once labelled as ‘shithole countries’.

It was grim in the extreme to watch President Donald Trump gloat, bawl, taunt, rave, rant and make disruptive pronouncements from the podium of the Capitol Rotunda at his inauguration ceremony . Even though he had once called himself a “ madman ”, it was disconcerting to see one of the most powerful persons in the world issue threats to almost everybody, bar his supporters and supplicants.