A new year and a familiar sensation. He wouldn’t do that, would he? You know, he just has gone and done it. Wow.
This refers, of course, to Donald Trump and his ability to surprise, to set the news agenda, to send the rest of the world skedaddling to respond.
He did it in his first term as President – many is the time you would wake up to find a tweet from POTUS blowing a hole in what until then had seemed like an orderly day ahead. Now, in his second reign, he is doing it again, except bigger and bolder, determined to leave a lasting legacy, to claim his place on Mount Rushmore (seriously).
In reality, he has been following the same playbook all his life. He’s a loner, someone who does not dance to the tune of others, who does not play by their rules. Not for him memberships of clubs – unless they are his own – or worthy bodies and talking shops.
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