It’s official; as per a count on Thursday, Donald Trump has officially claimed enough delegates to clinch the GOP nomination. Thus, Irish Trump would be faced with an electorate deeply suspicious of “just trust me” demagogues. She even had Donald Trump’s penchant for unhinged Tweeting. And the country has strict legal limits on acceptable political speech; in Germany, many of the things uttered by actual Donald Trump would be illegal. Like Donald Trump, Berlusconi started out as an anti-press, anti-establishment, loose-lipped billionaire whom political elders initially did not take seriously.

Source: National Post May 27, 2016 10:03 UTC