Fergus Finlay

It's a rolling news story in which he is the centre.

Now, that has never happened before, that Donald Trump has been the centre of global news.

I mean, to be honest, I thought there were some good things about last night.

The fact that nobody was seriously hurt.

I felt very sorry for poor old Wolf Blitzer, the CNN anchor, who clearly picked a very bad moment to go to the loo and got caught in the corridor with the potential assassin and had a very, very scary experience.

And I'm not trying to make light of it.

I do think the other really great thing about the whole thing was that it spared the entire world Donald Trump's speech, the speech he was planning to make.

Because you can absolutely depend on him doing 10 minutes of scripted and maybe an hour and a half of the rambling that he goes on with.

Once he gets hold of a mic, he can't stop.

He hates the media.

His definition of freedom of the press is fake news.

He was going to have an unmerciful go

But I've never believed in the false flag theory, but it's very clear that

Donald Trump is going more and more insane as time goes by.

Surely it's the case that the most coherent political force in the United States remains MAGA.

The most united political force remains MAGA.

And as damaged as they might be, I mean, the biggest issue, surely, is the complete and absolute absence of any coherent opposition.

But to Trump and to MAGA and to the Republicans, they're going to get a hiding of some sort in the midterm elections.

But maybe not as badly as other people think, because I'm I'm really beginning to wonder about the capacity of the Democrats to mount a decent campaign.

No, it doesn't.