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Subsequently things went equally poorly for the sons. Allan accidentally blew his cottage sky-high and as a result became homeless. Donald did more or less the same thing with his father’s business empire and was only rescued from bankruptcy by the help of a number of benevolent banks.
It wasn’t as pleasant to be President of the United States as Donald Trump had expected. Firing people was just about the most fun thing in the world. When he did it in the business world and on TV, he was met with fear and respect. But as soon as he set a head or two rolling in the White House (or thirteen: it sort of depended on how you counted them), the corrupt media insinuated that he was mentally unstable. Another horrible experience was that the Republicans – his Republicans – didn’t do as he said. And that apparently the law was written in such a way that he couldn’t fire them too. And
In practice, it meant that fake news was anything Trump didn’t like reading, listening to or watching.
when your opponent was a pint-sized, narcissistic madman with the capacity for nuclear weapons, you really had to think twice. This wasn’t exactly one of Donald Trump’s strong suits. He had to admit that to himself. His time was far too precious for it. And, also, the North Korean narcissist reminded him of someone – he just couldn’t think who it was. Anyway,
Donald Trump had always taken care of his friends, especially the ones who couldn’t be fired. Like the gun lobby, for example. It was a nuisance that a psychopath had just killed sixty or so people in Las Vegas with the help of twenty-three different guns. According to Murphy’s Law, he would probably also have a school shooting on his hands soon. Furthermore,
Margot Wallström felt a bit guilty about the part with Theresa May. But she hadn’t lied, even if the odds that May would want something from Julius Jonsson were small. Partly because she had no idea he existed, partly because she was extremely busy dismantling her country.
The United States had a president who should be diagnosed with something. In Great Britain they had held an election a year earlier based on Cameron’s rhetorical question ‘Surely we shouldn’t kick out all foreigners?’ which received a ‘Why not? That’s a great idea!’ in response. In
We only live once. That’s the only certainty in life. How long, though – that varies.’
Everything about Allan Karlsson’s doings in the Indian Ocean were already available to read in the UN report Margot Wallström had submitted, but with its seventy-two pages it was seventy-two pages too long for Donald Trump to deal with. So the president drew his own conclusions. ‘How
more, it ended up that whoever said the same thing the most times won. Some had refined this talent
