However, I would like to call Trump’s visit to Riyadh a great “circus,” but not as “nasty, farcical, and dangerous,” as some critics would like to characterise it. Like an exciting ‘circus,’ Trump’s successes are of course mixed with entertaining light and loose elementsLife in the big topIt is true the whole Trump story has all along been a “circus,” more celebratory than ceremonial, be it his personal life, business life, or political life. Like an exciting “circus,” Trump’s successes are of course mixed with entertaining light and loose elements, as if they were alloys to make his successes more successful with a tinge of the otherwise grave and wise reflections of Shakespeare’s fools and clowns. Trump’s was a “circus” that the Americans, starved of action-oriented political entertainment in the Washington status quo, wanted to watch. To conclude: “A man at the top of his profession is not [necessarily] a great man.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 17, 2017 12:45 UTC