Is Donald Trump an idiot or a genius or a mad idiot genius? He seems driven by some demented force that even he doesn’t understand. What else made him come to Scotland on Friday last week? The ostensible reason, and probably the motive in Trump’s head, was that he wanted to reopen one of his golf courses. That’s weird enough in itself, given that he is the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, and in a few months could be leader of the free world. What’s he doing still jetting about promoting his businesses?
What’s even weirder is that The Donald landed on Brexit day, of all days. June 24, 2016 — the day the global markets freaked; the day that the poor and disgruntled, the same sort of people voting for Trump in America, told the political establishment to get stuffed; the day the world seemed turned upside-down. After a couple of bad weeks for his campaign at home, Trump’s entry into Brexit seemed to be exactly the sort of disruptive moment that he needed.
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