The Hulk Is Back, and He Won’t Like Our Defence Weakness
.By Peter Jennings
During the 2016 presidential election I wrote that the United States desperately needed Captain America but instead got the Incredible Hulk. Now the Hulk is back and even stronger. That’s because he – Donald Trump that is – won both houses of congress.
Sequels are usually worse than the first movie. We know the main character’s strengths and weaknesses. Plot lines are set, only the supporting cast is different.
We remember the hysterics from Trump’s first term, but the Hulk had calmer moments. Ultimately there was no weird agreement with North Korea’s “Little Rocket Man”; NATO got stronger; Iran was more firmly buttonholed; Israel was supported; the U.S. did not abandon Afghanistan.
In 2016 Trump started a bromance with Xi Jinping. Last year Trump said Xi was “smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy.”
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