Theresa May’s decision to cuddle the Donald looks worse by the day

It is not often, especially in the midst of what has been a grimly dreadful election campaign for her, that one feels some measure of pity for Theresa May. But there she was today, gamely putting on her bravest, gamest, face when she was asked for her reaction to Donald Trump’s latest witless provocations. 

The American president, you can hardly failed to have noticed, has not covered himself in glory since the weekend’s terrorist attack in London. When the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, suggested that Londoners should not be alarmed by the deployment of additional armed officers on the streets of London, Trump blustered “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” 

Well, indeed there wasn’t though you wouldn’t expect him to know that. Undeterred, Trump returned to his phone this morning to suggest that Khan was failing in his duties (Trump should know a thing or to about that, admittedly).