Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and the Trump presidency for the new Spectator USA website.

I'm joined today by Dominic Green, who is our life and arts editor at Spectator USA, and we're going to be asking,

has Donald Trump really gone off the rails for real this time? Dominic, everybody always says

that Trump is unhinged, everybody always says that he really seems to be losing the plot now.

But it does seem in the last few days, he's been wilder than ever. He's launched resentful attacks against Fox News.

He has claimed that Jews who don't vote for him are disloyal. He has expressed his desire to buy

Greenland and then caused a row with Denmark over that. And his tweets are stranger than normal,

I think that's fair to say. What's going on? Do you think

he's boiling over? It all sounds completely normal to me. I think this is Trump at his finest,

which is given the full rain, given room to expand and roam widely across the major topics of

the day because it is. For a lot of this year, he actually was quite stayed by his standards. Well, yes, and I think it's because there's no single issue

driving him along. And so he's able to drive the news agenda and ruminate, for instance,

on buying countries and so on. I think my pet theory is it's ahead of the G7. He always

likes to cause as much aggravation ahead of the G7.

It's a preemptive disturbance. Yes. Yes, yes. But he said I am the storm. You know,

he prefers to be the orchestrator of this than to be on the receiving end. He wasn't very comfortable when, say, events in Hong Kong meant he had to respond or make a statement. He

looked distinctly awkward on camera

compared then to announcing himself as the second coming. He looked quite confident when he did

that. I feel from a bit on that because I mean he was obviously joking, which is often what

happens with Trump. So he looked up to the sky and said, I am the chosen one. And now everyone

going, oh, he's got a messiah an exilusion complex. I mean, maybe he does in one way, but he's funny about it.

Yeah, he's a master comedian.

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