John Crace is the Guardian’s politics sketch writer and one of the funniest men in the U,K. Crace is the bloke who popularized the Maybot nickname for the soon-to-be former Prime Minister, Theresa May. Speaking of funny Brits, the cartoon above is by the brilliant Steve Bell. I’m inordinately fond of his depiction of the Insult Comedian as a terlet.
Once May had finished and offered the president a handshake, Trump took centre stage. But even he could barely raise a pulse. His mind was elsewhere – reliving the Disney fairytale of meeting the Queen and thinking ahead to more important engagements later that afternoon. Who wouldn’t want the wellness spa experience of Pierce Morgan crawling up their ass? Sycophantic colonic irrigation – and he barely made it through his script, time and again stumbling over words. English is the president’s second language. Bollocks being the first.
There was time for some trademark bluster. He and May were probably the biggest business leaders in the entire world. Make that the universe. The US-UK relationship was the greatest alliance ever seen. But even then, his words came with a certain fatigue. As if he was merely going through the motions of being polite, unsure of why the man who made a point of never getting involved with stone cold losers had found himself on a platform with one.
In a word: nasty.
The last word goes to the Beatles with a song from the Beatles For Sale album: