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The rest of the world has had it with US presidents, Trump or otherwise | Mohammed Hanif

No matter who’s in the White House, their task is the same: fight the evil that is all of us who aren’t American
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968. Photograph: Dirck Halstead/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Our American friends are worried about their president. They are telling us – even in what may be his final months in office – that Donald Trump is sick, that he is a fascist, that he is a grotesque parody of a proper US president.

As a long-suffering citizen of a world run by US presidents, may I remind them that he is not very different from the other presidents that I and the rest of the non-American world have suffered for the past half century. Americans say they are better people than Trump. In solidarity, one might”, or cunning tax dodgers, being a world-class bully has always been a part of the job.

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