Donald Trump adds to the jollity of nations, and his press conferences are hugely entertaining. He drops massive news bombs, laughs, and whisks himself away. I defy anyone not to be entertained. In terms of epic oddness, his encounter with May today one was a notch or two down from last year’s at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country residence. Still, he provided another masterclass in comic statesmanship.
Trump bends the world to his idea of reality, and it’s hilarious. He was able to repeat – once again – his conviction that he arrived in Turnberry, his golf course in Scotland, the day before the EU referendum. He didn’t. I was there. It was the day after. But one can be fairly sure Trump will go to his grave adamant that he came to Britain the day before Brexit, and predicted it would happen.
From a British perspective, the biggest flash point of the conference was his revelation that Jeremy Corbyn had sought an audience with him and he had turned the Labour opposition leader down.
Asked how he felt about being critiqued by Corbyn, Trump chose to interpret that as a question about Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor.
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