Subject: Re: Respect around the worrld....
There are few leaders who appear as clownish as ours. In fact, I can't think of one off the top of my head. In history, there is Idi Amin. IIRC, he was a bit of a clown (and a murderous one, at that).

I couldn't believe that Italy elected Berlusconi, that criminal clown. And I felt quite confident that such insanity could never happen here in the good old USA.

Well, duh, was I ever wrong.

Trump makes Berlusconi look like a paragon of virtue and sensibility.