One of the rarely mentioned downsides of Donald Trump becoming president was that he had to give up presenting his Apprentice tv show but this week we discovered that he’s still shouting “You’re fired” albeit from the Oval Office rather than than a tv studio. It was the second time that a president’s sacked an FBI director, the one was Bill Clinton. Fast forward a few years and slick Willy was facing impeachment proceedings and a lot of people would like Trump to be impeached but I really hope things don’t pan out exactly the same because the thought of a new Monika Lewinsky style scandal involving Trump’s “tower” is frankly too gruesome to contemplate.

Comparisons to Richard Nixon and Watergate are also being made which as Trump would be the first to assure us is ludicrous because the Watergate hotel is a dump compared to his luxury 5 star hotel in DC. He’d especially recommend trying the steak when you’re there, honestly, go right now it’s terrific, stop paying attention, nothing to see here. Comparing the two you could also add that Nixon worked with diplomats to create detente and open up China to the West whereas Trump would prefer to reverse that with prohibitive trade tariffs although he would like to copy that wall thing the Chinese have. Say what you will about a huge wall, the Chinese tried it and they don’t have any illegal immigration from Mexico. And domestically speaking Nixon set up the EPA whereas Trump would rather shut it down, along with CNN and the New York Times and any fake news conversation about James Comey