Comment: US President has shown once again that he is a lunatic - and he has destroyed the US's standing in the Middle East
I was called by an Irish radio station in Dublin to respond to US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. What did I think was going on inside the US president's mind, I was asked?
And I replied immediately: "I don't have the key to the lunatic asylum." What might once have seemed an outrageously over-the-top remark was simply accepted as a normal journalistic reaction to the leader of the world's greatest superpower. And re-listening to the speech that Trump made in the White House, I realised I should have been far less restrained. The very text of the document is insane, preposterous, shameful.
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