Donald MacLeod: Stop the moaning... Trump won so get on with it

Russian dolls in the likeness of US presidents (Mikhail PochuyevTASS via Getty Images)

HOT diggity damn! Who’d have thunk it?

The outspoken, and for many, despised billionaire property magnate Donald J. Trump has only gone and won it.

Against the odds, all the polling predictions, all reasoned judgement and, of course, all the rotten scraps of filth his equally-reviled Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton and her embittered Democrat purists could throw at him. He won.

He’s been democratically elected to be the 45th President of the United States.

Who’da thunk it? Well, I did, and now I can’t wait to get my hands on the neck of that Brexiteering Michael Gove MP.

His back-stabbing of Boris Johnson, right after the European Referendum, a shameful act of betrayal which prevented BoJo ever becoming PM, bust my double at the bookies and in turn lost me a right few quid.

Well, as the Rolling Stones classic points out, a song which with amazing foresight was used by the Trump campaign team as a fanfare to greet the new president-elect: “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime, well you just might find, you get what you need”.

And dodgy bets asides, it was Trump’s aspirational and inspirational messages of hope, his promises to make America great again, his passionate belief that there were better days to come that resonated with the disenfranchised, disillusioned and forgotten masses.

That if they gave him a chance, he would challenge the old establishment and be their champion for change.

That under his care, America would strive and thrive and become one of the world’s leading industrial superpowers.

That the rusting and hollow wastelands of a bygone age, despairing homes of the unemployed, the homeless, food banks and lack of welfare would be made great again.

That’s what won him the election – not his threats to build walls and ban all Muslims from entering the US.

These were statements, in my view, that were made to keep him in the news and in the race.

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Yes, it was fuel to the fire and reason enough for a small number of anti-establishment racist bigots to jump aboard and vote for him, but they were not responsible or indeed the driving force behind his winning ticket.

To suggest otherwise is as crass and ignorant as anything Trump said during his campaign.

In echoes of Brexit, an ignored section of people, sick of establishment excess, party political posturing, being taken for granted and who wanted to be heard, felt Donald Trump heard their cries and listened.

Hillary Clinton didn’t. With a presidency within her grasp, she threw it away. Losing black votes, Hispanic votes, white votes and most importantly the votes of women.

Women it seems had a higher regard for the sexist octopus “The Donald” than they did for her.

He’s now in charge and, unlike Obama, has the backing of both congress and the senate and will be able to rollercoast his bills and spending plans through both houses without costly time-consuming delays.

There will be no wall, no outright banning of Muslims and no third world war. Well, I hope not.

If we all try, and give him a chance, we may indeed get what we need and want.

Peace and prosperity. What have we got to lose?

Oh did I tell you he was from MacLeod stock?

A Donald MacLeod in the Cathouse (that’s my club) and now one in the Whitehouse. Don’t worry, we are not related.

And on another very positive note my brother, Lewis MacLeod, the famous TV and radio comic voice impressionist, is now guaranteed employment for the next four years.

His take on Trump is hilarious!

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