How thin-skinned and pompous the British media class is. On the airwaves, Twitter, and elsewhere, the reaction to Donald Trump’s tweet about London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been apoplexy bordering on hysteria. Trump has deeply insulted our nation, it is said, and harmed the Special Relationship. Susan Minton Beddoes, the editor of the Economist, told American TV Trump’s tweet was ‘really damaging’. Countless others are now calling on Theresa May to give Trump a piece of their minds. I can’t help thinking May’s time could be better spent — addressing the terror problem, say — than getting into a war of words with the President of the United States. Besides, what do we want May to do? Hop on Twitter and ‘own’ him with some keep-calm-carry-on zinger about how allies ought to behave? If we think the problem is Trump’s juvenile approach to international relations, do we think our Prime Minister should respond in kind?
Trump is a chump — everybody knows that.
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