If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

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He is amusing and insightful, as well as, in good British tradition, self denigrating about Trump’s snub to him, and the BBC, during a press conference. Despite of all the Right Acts, the fact is that many African Americans still have no driving licence. Whether it's Jon Sopel's interpretation of the non-existing 'special relationship', or his dry and factual yet humorous way of talking about what led to Trump and Brexit as well as the Post-Trump and Post-Brexit era (I'm not sure what's worse), I enjoyed this book from start to finish.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. uk will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing. Sopel explains some interesting history about the antisemitic America First Committee (AFC), which I didn't know about. A chapter about paranoia and drug addiction, which goes off on a tangent about Muslim extremists, travel bans etc.This book helped me to further understand some of the background as to why and how American culture is now what it is. If you followed G7 in Italy via La Repubblica or L'Express you'd have seen May trailing forlornly after Trump, desperate for a crumb from his table, like a rejected mistress. The media detached public from racial segregation in quite a funny way: virtually took people back into 1957 when some black students were illegally banned from attending class at Little Rock High School. Why was Hilary Clinton so hated – something that mystified us in the UK – and why, indeed, was there so much hate generally in that ill spirited election?

But should you care to look back on history Trump's election is not too much of a sup prise to far to the left and it springs back the right and vise verses? He has travelled extensively across the US and recently rode a Harley Davidson down the West Coast (that wasn't for work though). You may well think you've already read enough about Donald Trump, and whilst this book is a pretty decent second draft of history as it stood in July 2017, I honestly think there's much here that'll stay relevant long after the 45th president.

Instead he extensively expands on subject of his adventures in Northwest DC, the place that taxi-drivers prefer to stay away from. The book ends rather abruptly and it’s more about Obama’s America than Trump’s, but it’s worth a read if you are interested in seeing America through an outsider’s lens. In another section, he also compares and contrasts the elaborate precautions that the USA takes when the President moves around, compared with the seemingly casual nature of British security around the Prime Minister (there’s a lovely anecdote of John Major in a roadside café).