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Agreed. It’s about half an hour from us. Have often called in there on the way to or from somewhere.

The only saving grace is that his inherent incompetence and ignorance will probably mean that he won’t accomplish all that he would like to. As his attempt to tax the small parcel trade shows, signing an executive order doesn’t make it magically happen, and things that do happen often have unintended consequences that make them untenable.

He's just sacked the Chairman and a number of board members from the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, and announced that he will be the new chairman. I don't think he knows anything about arts and culture, but I guess we can now expect World Championship Wresting to be elevated to the Performing Arts.

IFR is above my pay grade unfortunately. I’m just a humble VFR pilot. How many Australian weekend fliers need IFR anyway, particularly here in the Wild West. VFR has got me around a lot of the country so far.

No thanks. I’ll stick to the RV. Less performance but also MUCH less to own and fly.

No. Scarily convincing. Would it stand up to a fact check?

Well, if it can understand your typing, it’s even better than I thought.

For something that has no idea what it's talking about, that sounds almost like it has a fair idea of what it’s talking about. Could do without the bracketed humour though.

Netanyahu presented Trump with a golden pager last week, similar to what they gave to Hezbollah. Hope it works.

Who are the people espousing the policies that you’re talking about? Who is assassinating whom? Some specific examples would be good. I really don’t know who you regard as being so extreme anywhere in the world.

She’s not dumb. She’s smart, articulate, confident and a very good propagandist for the MAGA cause, which means she’s as full of BS as Trump is.

But the problem in the US is that many don't want peaceful cooperation. The far right in particular sees the left as the enemy with no right to govern the country. While balance and cooperation would be great, there's no fundamental reason why equilibrium should prevail.

Trump's Gaza plan is naive and nonsensical and won't go far. He won't back down of course, although I don't know how he's going to spin this. Even his own advisors apparently didn't know what he had in mind until he announced it. Now they're trying to back away from it, but he has shown the world once again what a loose cannon he is, not that anyone need a reminder.

He won't be impeached. The Democrats are wasting time that would be better spent taking him (and Musk) to court for spending three weeks ignoring the law.

I can never work out whether you’re serious or just stirring the pot again, GON.

Let’s see what he says tomorrow. Twenty four hours is a long time for him to hold one thought in his head. Bibi probably put him up to it, but by tomorrow he will have spoken to somebody else and changed his mind.

That's an empty threat because he can't leave posthumous instructions. If he's dead, he's no longer the president so his orders in the envelope on his desk are meaningless.

Why would they want to go backwards?

Why would they want to swap the Danes for the Americans? If they want to be independent and know they sitting on massive natural resources, why would they give that away just to become another US state, especially the way the US is self-destructing under the new management.

The Saudis aren't impressed. They have already issued a response to Trump's plan, strongly objecting to moving the Palestinians and said they won't recognise Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state. Their UN envoy said leaders and people should respect the Palestinian's desire to stay in Gaza. I can't see how Trump can force an entire population to leave and legally (or illegally) take over their country. Even if he did, it wouldn't be long before the US occupiers had a few shots fired at them by someone, and then the US would be embroiled in another conflict in the Middle East together with the Israelis. He's not winning many points towards his the Nobel Peace Prize so far.

That makes the quoted value of my superannuation balance fictitious too. Now you've got me worried.

Following his meeting with Netanyahu he’s just announced that the US plans to take over ownership of the Gaza Strip and rebuild it for the ‘world’s people’ to live in. That should be interesting. Netanyahu thinks it’s a great idea.

He's just written an executive order instructing his team to come up with a plan for creating a sovereign wealth fund. There's nothing wrong with that and it works well in Norway and Saudi Arabia who fund theirs with oil profits, but given that the US is currently $36t in debt it's unclear how this fund is going to be funded. However, he has confidently said that it will soon be one of the biggest funds in the world. He's suggested the fund could help finance the purchase of TikTok, or they could do a partnership with very wealthy people. I wonder if he's got a proposition for Elon.

Although he claims the border issues as the main justification for the tariffs, his latest statement in Canada’s case is that they now have 30 days ‘to see whether or not a final economic deal can be structured’, meaning he wants Canada to buy more from the US than they buy from Canada so he ‘wins’. He already had a trade deal with an ally that he could have renegotiated, but now he’s got a suspicious and angry neighbour to deal with that rightly sees him as a threat. The ‘Art of the Deal’ doesn’t seem to be off to a good start.

Facts don't matter to Trump. He clams the deficit is $200b-$250b. The unrelated border stuff is just another excuse to justify the tariffs. If Canada applies their own 25% retaliatory tariffs on certain imports, as they have said they will, Trump will probably threaten to go to 50% on his. True to his character, he wants to bully his way to domination of allies and enemies alike. Subtlety is not one of his strengths.