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He doesn't look very happy.

Inflation is already low, jobs are up, don’t know what you mean by ‘woke craziness’ and Trump also had four years to control the border and couldn’t do it either.

Trump got in because about 240,000 more people in the swing states voted for him than they did for the Democrats. That’s just 0.17% of the 140,000,000 people who voted.

People think he’s playing an invisible accordion but he’s really just working the hot air bellows.

We'll see. She's a lot smarter than he is. Here's a comment from Saul Eslake that Trump's supporters may come to appreciate: “People like the fact that when Trump says he will do something, he does it. The problem is that when he does what he says he is going to do, the consequences are very different to what he says the consequences will be.”

He's appointed Susie Wiles, his co-campaign manager, as his chief of staff. She seems to be well regarded by both sides of the aisle, and is a moderate Republican by all accounts, so she might at least help keep him on the straight and narrow.

The inexperienced go-getters of his first term are now the people in his inner circle, and they are unified. That’s exactly the problem. They wrote Project 2025 even though Trump denies that he knows who they are. The first time around the chaos and a few sane voices meant he couldn’t get that much done. This time it’s likely to be very different.

He'd be 82. If his vice-presidential campaign is anything to go by, and given his limited political experience, a younger version of Trump. It certainly won't be great. His underlings want to deconstruct the government and its various agencies and create a version they like better headed by a despot.

The problem with many Americans is that they seem to think the world begins and ends at the US coastline. They don't appear to know that the cost of living went up, and is still up all around the world largely due to Covid and the effects of the war in Ukraine. The cost of groceries and housing is high in most countries. They don't know that they inherited a good financial situation from Obama, nor that Trump piled up the National debt significantly, his trickle-down economics didn't work, and that Biden got inflation down and wages up during his tenure. Now Trump will inherit another good economy, claim it was terrible, and trash it again. He has no chance of bringing the cost of living down with his tariff policies and tax reductions for the wealthy and big business. It's only a matter of time before the people who voted for him finally figure out that Trump can't fix it, although chances are they will accept his excuses again rather than admit they backed a dud horse.

I doubt it. The only allies Trump is interested in are those he can rip off or who will pay homage to his greatness. Trump doesn't care about any traditional US allies. He just sees them as free-loaders and a drain on US resources, and has said as much.

Trump is only the tip of the iceberg. Just as important are the nutcases like Musk and Kennedy who he wants to promote into key government positions, others like McEntee who want to strip the expertise out of the public service, and the smart schemers who will sit in the background and manipulate Trump to get what they want.

It’s ironic how all talk of the Democratics cheating snd rigging the election seems to have been suddenly forgotten. I wonder if it might occur to the MAGA crowd that maybe Trump didn’t win in 2020 after all, and that the Democrats were right to say that he was lying to them. Well, they’ve got the leader they wanted, so now the world will have to live with the result. It could get worse. If Trump has a heart attack, which is on the cards in the next four years, we’ll get Vance.

Melania won’t be happy with this inconvenient interruption to her social life.

His MAGA supporters have high expectations of what he can do for them. It will be interesting to see how they feel about him once they finally work out that he's not making them and America great again, but notice that his friends and hangers-on are doing very nicely.

Looks like the orange clown will get back in, unfortunately.

Work always seems to expand to fill the time available. Retirement work doesn't pay very well though.

I can do the bend no problem. It's getting up again that I struggle with.

I've already started.

It will come down to how many people in the swing states make the effort to vote. Trump may generally have the edge in the polls but they only measure voting intentions, not votes lodged and counted. Anything could happen at this point and Joe is not helping.

They won't have to. He'll do it for them.

It will be interesting to see if the polls are right. They have been wrong often enough before. If Trump does get back in it will also be interesting to see how many MAGA supporters still think he’s their saviour in a year from now. They will all be worse off, as will we most likely, but they may then finally start to see him for the moron that he is.

I think the Democrats realise that alright but they can’t mount a strong counter argument because the border is chaotic and they are in charge. If they say the immigrants commit fewer crimes than the rest of the population the Trump voters and a lot if the swing voters won’t believe them and Trump will just rubbish them for it. They can’t win that argument.

Michelle Obama at a rally in Michigan yesterday comparing voter expectations of Harris and Trump: “We expect her to be intelligent and articulate, to have a clear set of policies, to never show too much anger, to prove time and time again that she belongs,” Mrs. Obama said. “But for Trump, we expect nothing at all, no understanding of policy, no ability to put together a coherent argument, no honesty, no decency, no morals.” Probably sums up why Trump is still in the race and may win, unfortunately. The bar for him is very low.

He’d be more likely to put the price up.

That is awful!