Keir Starmer won’t want you to know what he thinks about Donald Trump (Image: Getty/PA)
Love him or hate him – no-one here in the UK could have listened to ’s Inauguration speech this week and not thought: “Why the Hell don’t we have a leader like that?”
Why don’t we have a leader who passionately loves his country, who’s bursting with hope, optimism and ideas that could change the world?
I was actually jealous of Americans yesterday. I was jealous of the “thrilling new era” that Donald has promised them.
I was desperate for what Trump called his “Common Sense Revolution” and the golden future he said would now be theirs with him in charge.
Because even if he achieves just half of what he’s promised in the next four years it’ll be four times as much as any Prime Minister in this country has achieved in the past 15.
There was barely a thing in Trump’s rousing speech that wouldn’t have thrilled and resonated with people here. He’s promised to smash the woke culture, to send troops to the southern border to stop ALL illegal immigration – as well as sending back the millions of illegals who shouldn’t be there.
He promised to bring back free speech, to get rid of all the Diversion, Equality and Inclusion schemes that are crippling businesses. He said that in future in the US there would only be TWO genders – male and female.
He vowed to bring law and order back to America’s towns and cities. He’s said drug cartels would be designated terrorist organisations and he was going to revoke America’s “Green New Deal” Then in one glorious last gasp he said that America was going to “Drill Baby Drill” ( that got the loudest standing ovation of the day) and produce the largest amount of gas and oil on earth: “And I’m going to use it,” he shouted.
Compare and contrast that with the whining of the wet zealot Ed Miliband who constantly talks about Doomsday and not only wants to take us all back to the Dark Ages but is determined we won’t use our God-given oil resources in the North Sea.
Compare and contrast Trump’s first speech as President with Kier Starmer’s first as PM when, standing dour faced at hispodium, he told us that things were catastrophically bad and they were only going to get worse.
How was that supposedly to make a nation feel that had just voted him in with a stonking majority. It made people think: “What the Hell have we done?”
And we’re still thinking it. This is the Kier Starmer who, unlike Trump, is totally bereft of vision, of political nous, of business experience. The same PM who wouldn’t know a good idea if it smacked him in the face. Who the Hell wouldn’t want to be part of Trump’s brave new world?
Because standing there in the rotunda in Washington’s Capitol building this week he made it all sound so easy. And of course it IS easy to change a country when you have a will and a plan to do it.
The problem with Starmer is that he and his Government have no will to do anything other than here other than pander to their union paymasters, to the woke agenda, to bang on about diversity and inclusion and the multiculturalist dream.
Trump is a man who loves its country and all of its people. Starmer is a man who hates both and who has nothing but contempt for the British people – a contempt we all see and feel day after miserable day.
How Starmer must have looked at The Donald on Monday and wished had even a fraction of his chutzpah, his drive, his vision. But what old Slippery needs to realise that if this country is ever to thrive he needs to watch and learn from Trump.
He needs to listen to what he says. Because from where I’m sitting Trump knows more about what’s best for Britain than Starmer and his cabinet of fools ever will.
Trump wasn’t even sworn in until this week but he’d already started changing the world. Leaders across the globe are changing their agendas because of him. He told Hamas “all Hell would break loose” if they didn’t release the hostages.
And so they’ve started doing exactly that. He persuaded Benjamin Netanyahu to sign the same peace deal he rejected eight months ago.
He’s already in talks with and he wants a face-to-face meeting with Putin which I have no doubt he will get. And world leaders are listening to him for many reasons – one of which is that they fear the consequences if they don’t.
Trump said in his speech that he wanted to be a “unifier and a peacemaker” and I believe him. Yes, in the past, he’s said and done some lamentable things but this time round it feels different.
He’s had four long years to decide what he needs to do – and no-one should underestimate the strength and the will it took him to get back into the White House – and I believe that whatever he wants to achieve he will.
Yes, he could crash and burn but I believe he’s going to be a transformative President. Wokeism, the worldwide obsession with gender and identity are already on the wane Stateside.
The big tech oligarchs, who only a few years ago despised him, are now standing four square behind him helping him to deliver his vision.
But the most compelling thing about his dream is that it’s America First all the way. How wonderful to be a country where its leader puts its people first.
So if we want to be part of Trump’s American dream Starmer needs to gag the big mouths in his cabinet who for years have denigrated and insulted the man who is now Leader of the Free World and who could leave this country for dust if he chose to. Conversely he could change it for the better.
Starmer needs to pray it’s the latter. Because even riding on Trump’s coat tails could be a Hell of a ride for Britain!!!!