Martin Wolf

And with Trump, what you will get is action.

not intellectually grounded, pretty ignorant.

He will use a lot of power.

If he doesn't work, he will withdraw.

Thank heavens.

That's what I see.

It doesn't seem to me that we're looking at the US under this regime and looking at the people around that has a coherent sense as a whole of what it wants to be and what it wants to do.

That's terrifying.

because it is the most important country in the world.

It is the guarantor of the system, which I like to point out works sensationally well for the US.

So one of the most astonishing thing to me is that if you look at it from outside, the US, I mean, I think it makes incredible mess of its own policy and politics.

It could do much better, but the US is a spectacular success.

Why does everybody want to change everything?

It seems very difficult to understand, you know,

And if you compare it with the Roman Empire, the United States is sort of in the second century.

So what's the problem?

But this US is what I see now.

It could change, presumably, though I have no idea whether it could change durably.

And my last point was very much a part of my new postscript for my book.

You won't restore confidence in the rest of the world that the US sort of knows what it's doing and what it's about, has a coherent sense of itself just by a defeat in one election.