John Lee

There were many disturbing moments in Steve Bannon’s CBS interview, but perhaps the most harrowing for sensible viewers was his comparison of the Trump team to the gang in the Hollywood Western the Wild Bunch.

The American electorate turned to Donald Trump because Congress had become so dysfunctional that it no longer worked. One of the many tragedies of Trump’s presidency is that Congress is now less able to do meaningful business.

As a political correspondent, I’ve had the opportunity to meet many world leaders over the last two decades. The question I am most asked is: “what is he or she like in person?”

US President Donald Trump is finding his campaign promises increasingly difficult to fulfill, but his leaning towards military interventionism could be the most fundamental breach of trust for his Rust Belt supporters.

The Democrats are to blame for handing Donald Trump the opportunity to play out his slapstick farce in the White House, but the opportunity for electoral redemption comes around quickly in the United States.

When Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States we clung to fragile hope. We hoped he could morph from the wild, aggressive and boorish candidate into a moderately good president.

The Republican party is close to reaching its goal of obliterating Obamacare. They just have to keep President Donald Trump under control for long enough to get their bill through the Senate.

We’re five months into Donald Trump’s rollercoaster presidency, Brexit is rocking the foundations of the EU, and Islamist terrorism threatens our way of life – the old order is crumbling. There is a new ideological conflict, but who are the combatants?

Donald Trump portrays himself as a rebel, but in the marquee speech of his Saudi Arabian visit yesterday he displayed once again that he will not betray the fundamental doctrines of the US establishment.

Richard Nixon may have been the most reviled President of the United States, but at least he could accept defeat. The same cannot be said of Hillary Clinton.