
By Liz S
Whatever you think of Trump or Zelensky one thing stands out with a Trump presidency.
He is acting in a way that is normally hidden from public view when other presidents were in charge of America.
I mean , come on , are some supposedly intelligent people , as in those who are political commentators for MSM and also those online, actually expecting us to believe that other American presidents and also their secret service organisation, the CIA, were incapable of acting in a way that put “America First” in the world.
Or rather they, as political commentators, are expecting us all to forget what they, the previous American presidents, have done and also condoned being done in the past , both within their own country and in the world.
(Also what they, as former US presidents, have also failed to do in their own country in not helping the poorest and weakest in America- and where some large American pharmaceutical companies have exploited Americans, all for their own company profit, and apparently they , as huge Pharma companies , have received substantial US government assistance in public funded basic research and also tax breaks).
In other words they , as former US Presidents, were no different from Trump as the current US president, in that a lot of their actions and their lack of action(s) were not that different from Trump’s, on some of the things he has done and also not done !
However , as former presidents, their public face was one of a more dignified and more polished US President so therefore they were seen as being more acceptable to both America and to the World.
Did they, as previous US presidents, not interfere in other countries affairs ?
But only usually when there was some benefit to be had for America.
Also why was America, like other countries in the world, so selective in which needy country they chose to help, and then also which other needy countries they chose not to help ?
Why indeed .
America polices the world we have been told…..but was it for the world’s good or for America’s own good ?
Apparently though the actions of former US presidents appears to be considered as irrelevant just now.
Trump is exposing this other darker side to America, where a significant amount of Americans were willing to vote for him, knowing exactly who he was and what he was like. Why ?
Try researching America’s history, both domestically and overseas, and then try and say that Trump is somehow distinct and unique from other previous US presidents and their administrations.
Trump is , IMO , very much a self serving C***, and so should be no where near public office, because of what he represents and who he represents. (to include himself).
However is he not just a continuation of what existed before him ?
Is he not just being more transparent than others were , as in those others who previously held the position of American President.
He is more willing to show the world this other side to America, which is the real America as a country in the world who is far too dominant, too powerful and too wealthy and because of that holds too much influence within the world.
Is America , via their respective governments, really any different from Russia ?
Are many Americans, like many of us in the UK, not also being badly served by those who supposdley represent them as their government.
The UK governments and their various PM’s are really no different to Trump, or indeed is the English Royal family. (or indeed is much of the UK media any different to Fox News and other politically compromised state media in America- and also state media in Russia ).
In fact is Fox News any different from Russia Today ?
Where Fox News is nothing more than a (Republican state) media source ?
What are the UK media equivalents to Fox News and Russia Today ?
Talking of which , the UK media have reported that Zelensky has now been invited by the King for a visit to Sandringham, where they also report that the King shows “solidarity with Zelensky”.
This is the same King who apparently wrote a personal letter to Donald Trump, hand delivered by Keir Starmer on his visit to the WH, where he, the King, was inviting Trump to come to the UK, or rather come to Balmoral in Scotland, on a ‘state visit’.
Did the King not know what Trump was like then, before he, as the new King, invited Trump ‘back over’ to the UK on a second state visit , actually he invited him to Scotland, for a ‘state’ visit ?
How ridiculous is this now ?
Also how hypocritical.
Can the same King and the same UK PM show solidarity to Zelensky & Ukraine yet both also still welcome Zelensky’s abuser & Ukraine’s apparent enemy , as in Donald Trump, to still come to Scotland on a state visit, via a personal invitation from him the King.
An invitation where Starmer said to Trump that “the King sends his best wishes and regards for a second state visit , this is really special, it’s never happened before , this is unprecedented”
So is King Charles and Starmer’s position on this now not then a conflicted position considering they are now supposdley both showing support for Zelensky?
Confused ?
No wonder, it is just so very confusing and also hilariously ridiculous and farcical.
So is this state visit for Trump, after the much publicised ‘incident’ in the WH with Zelensky, still to stand then ?
Are politics in the UK and also American politics not just absolutely ridiculous , where we the pubic in the UK are supposed to be so naïve and gullible to not see what is really behind this Trump state visit to Brexit UK.
Which then also makes both the King and Starmer’s position on supporting Zelensky and Ukraine now seem somewhat more contrived and more really ‘virtue signalling’ than actual sincerity .
As in pick a side why don’t you !
The Zelensky/Trump WH incident , that also included jibes from Vance and others towards Zelensky as well , is now very much an inconvenience to the pantomime that was to be played out when Trump came on his state visit to Balmoral.
So why is the UK government and also the King still wanting to pander to a bully like Trump if they are now supporting Zelensky and Ukraine ?
Still confused ?
Well the English Royal family and the various UK governments have the ‘art of the deal’ in mind in their various dealings with former American Presidents and also with Trump as the current one , and also too with some other dubious types who were leaders of other countries in the world.
Which let’s be honest , as a dubious behaviour also includes the various UK governments and he various UK PM’s , who were and still are not averse to acting against their own people, and also too , as a UK government, have acted very much against Scotland now and in also in the past.
Come on , Trump may be a C*** , but have the various past US presidents , the current and past UK government(s) and also the English Royal family all been beacons of virtue in the world , so much so , that they think they can all take the moral high ground over others ?
Hardly.
My sympathy lies only with the Ukrainian people in this matter.
I also sympathise with the Palestinian people, but where it seems in respect to Palestine , the various UK government’s and also different American presidents have sided more with Israel, and they still do.
Also where much of the UK and American media have turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the Israel government and the IDF against the Palestinian people for many many years.
Where they, as a media, carefully choose their words to describe what they say is happening in Gaza to the Palestinian people , as opposed to what is really happening there and who is doing it (which they, tactically avoid saying in their role as a politically compromised media and also as a pro Israel media ).
BTW I also sympathise with decent American people too, who like us are seemingly always badly represented by many past and present rogue leaders and their governments , and also , who like us, are often let down by a certain type of voter in their country as well, who vote for those who seek to serve the few and never seek to serve the many. (and in Scotland who never as a UK government seek to serve us as a nation within their UK).
Oh but remember the West is, or rather their governments are, apparently always……… right and good ! (that is depending on who is the leader and who is the government apparently ).
Or at least that’s what you are supposed to think, and so then believe !
I beg to differ , based on so so many facts and so much history.
Liz S

Starmer cut pensioners winter fuel allowance. £1.5Billion. To kill people.
£1.6Billion to Ukraine for missiles to kill people.
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Spot on. Donald Trump is not a politician. He hasn’t come up through the ranks like the others. He’s not “one of us”. He’s vulgar, rude, blunt and unpredictable. Shock!
But the American people have elected him and they must want this bull in the china shop to overturn the furniture and break things.
We have to look after our own interests and stop waiting for others to tell us what to think. There’s a ceasefire in Gaza – long may it continue. The Ukraine war may well stop soon – unless the Brits and their European warmonger pals can sabotage the process.
Let’s see – we’re only 5 weeks in!
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‘Try researching America’s history, both domestically and overseas, and then try and say that Trump is somehow distinct and unique from other previous US presidents and their administrations.’ – and discover a history of a God-blessed America???
Courtesy of Bob Dylan (1963): ‘With God on Our Side’.
‘Oh my name it ain’t nothin’
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I was taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side
‘Oh, the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh, the country was young
With God on its side
‘The Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War, too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I was made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side
‘The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don’t count the dead
When God’s on your side
‘The Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now, too
Have God on their side
‘I’ve learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It’s them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side
‘But now we got weapons
Of chemical dust
If fire them, we’re forced to
Then fire, them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God’s on your side
‘Through many a dark hour
I’ve been thinkin’ about this
That Jesus Christ was
Betrayed by a kiss
But I can’t think for you
You’ll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.
‘So now as I’m leavin’
I’m weary as Hell
The confusion I’m feelin’
Ain’t no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
That if God’s on our side
He’ll stop the next war.’
At least some among us don’t rely on such false hopes!
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Exactly. Well-remembered.
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Can’t help thinking Scotland’s a pawn-stake in a starver-charlie-trumpton gold-course, nhs style ‘how the Wild West was won’ theme.
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An inconvenient truth.
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Well said John. Gie them laldy.
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A great article it has always been America First no matter who was in charge it will only help others if the end game benefits them.
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Israel is collapsing the ceasefire and blocking all humanitarian aid to Gaza, which is a war crime.
Meanwhile Keir Starmer , most of the European leaders and also the Canadian leader and all their respective media are all only focusing on Ukraine, Zelensky, Putin and Trump.
A summit with European leaders and the Canadian leader, led by Keir Starmer in London, for Ukraine with Zelensky.
No summit for them, the Palestinians.
Hypocrites and double standards.
So is it only being done for the optics , and so not being really being done just for the good of others, as in for Zelensky & Ukraine.
Mostly I assume being done for the good of polling for these leaders in their own countries. (especially flagging Starmer).
If they, as leaders, were really all so good and kind then why no similar intervention, via a summit, to help the Palestinian people, who only get (a limited) ‘lip service’ from Starmer and other world leaders.
(However Palestine’s oppressors, Israel, get plenty of help and support from other world leaders and also from their respective client media too).
Liz S
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Sir Keir Starmer says Europe’s leaders are working with Ukraine on a peace plan which will be discussed with the USA, but what do they do when Trump tells them ‘No!’?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security
“Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’”
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Trump stops wars that is why people in the US vote for him. He went into politics because he did not agree with the Iraq War. Thought to do a better job.
Iraq, Dunblane and Lockerbie kept secret for 100 years. UK democracy. None existent.
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Europe should stop breaking treaties and Agreements training nuclear missiles on the Russian borders. Breaking every agreement in the book. As usual. 26million Russians died saving the West. Russia was assured there would be no missiles on its border by the West. The Comedian corrupt is lying his pockets with US taxpayers money. Killing people. Biden and his son corrupt criminal billionaires recycling US taxpayers monies into their pockets. Killing people. Senile Biden just pardoned his son.
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Starmer is a religious total hypocrite. Diverting the mess Labour are making of the economy. Killing people.
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