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

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The road and transport infrastructure is awful- John Kerry, visiting Haiti remarked that the state of the roads was better than in Washington! Like all good journalists, he goes out of his way to find new or interesting angles on a story; that's as true of this book as his broadcast work.

Donald Trump’s subsequent election and his first 18 months in the job have made Washington and world affairs febrile with opinion, outrage, incredulity, and interest- big time. I read the original version of "If Only", which doesn't have the extra chapter about Trump's first year in power.The title of the book refers to the fact that Americans speak English, which gives the British people the idea that we’re sort of like their long-distance cousins—we don’t live in the same house, but we’re a part of the same family. I know that during both Gulf wars it was the BBC that both British and American troops tuned into to get the latest on current events. It goes off on the same tangent about travel bans, and reiterates the Syria narrative about chemical weapons. I was contemplating suicide during the first 20 minutes of Trainwreck, but it got better when LeBron James appeared (the funniest person in that movie).

And yet, if your drug of choice is manufactured by one of the big drug companies and advertised on TV, it seems that you can get addicted to it with impunity. A chapter about paranoia and drug addiction, which goes off on a tangent about Muslim extremists, travel bans etc. First they bring to the stage Bill Clinton, who looks like a harmless redneck, looking refuge in sexual quirks.

He’s not charming or amusing (no matter what he thinks) and isn’t the America expert he thinks he is.

Could have given it five stars but there were some typos, the tone of voice got a bit tedious and there were some odd uses of commas.For me, Sopel seems like a stand-up guy doing his best to bring the latest events in the political arena to us the viewers. If you haven't spent the last two years glued to twitter and obsessively refreshing politico and 538, you'd probably get more out of this - but it felt like a series of headlines arranged by theme, and I'd already seen them all before. I suppose hindsight is a marvelous thing, for many a time while reading this book I would look at something and just go that makes sense. Interestingly he comes accross as quite sympathetic to Donald Trump, which is a bit odd given that he makes the case for the 45th president being unhinged. Jon Sopel’s book is a 90% state -of - the - nation USA in which the key themes; Race, God, Guns, are intelligently observed, but were written before the Trump phenomenon, and do not reference the specifics of Trumpism.

In actual fact, the French or Germans are probably a lot closer to the British mindset than the Americans; it’s just that most people can’t understand them when they are speaking their native tongue. Jon Sopel excels himself in this easy read History of the USA, with special emphasis on the differences on the two sides of the Atlantic between the USA and his native UK. While the examples in the book and the headings are (of course) cherry-picked to emphasise the differences, and anyone who knows even a few Americans will realise that there are worlds of difference between individuals, just as in any country, one comes away with the impression that American society (and by extension, many of the individuals who comprise that society) is, by British standards, more than a little eccentric – maybe even completely bonkers in places. It caused such a massive influx of prisoners, that the country heralded a special programme of prison building to cope with the extra demand for cells.It’s possible that many ignore the obvious exaggerations and mistakes in detail (or outright lies) but focus instead on the general underlying message – and as a result many of them are sold on Trump’s view of the world and his focus on how to make America great again. Remember one strict rule: every time politicians dangle the carrot either in front of the elephant or the donkey – the result will be the same: whirlwind and tornado! F.Benson earthquake ebook ebooks eddie redmayne Editing elementals evolution exile expat experiments fantasy father brown felicity jones fiction finance flat earth folklore fonts food Fred Benson free stuff gaiman gangsters good omens grant guernsey hamish macbeth historical fiction history homages html hypochondria illness interview interviews isaac newton italics japan javelin kabbala kabbalah kindle kit language libraries lichfield listening literary lockdown Lucia lunar society m. I like Jon Sopel even more now that I have discovered that he is a fellow motorcyclist, even if he does ride a Hawg – or Harley Davidson if you prefer.