\n However\u2026\n<\/p>\n
\n Firstly, the president announces a deal with Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply the US with diesel which, he says, will bring down the price of fuel in time for the mid-term elections. This deal, which will have negligible effect on pump prices, drives a hole through US sanctions on Russia and will provide money for Putin to fight Ukraine \u2013 a country the US has been backing over Russia.\n<\/p>\n
\n This is selfish and even reckless. Although Mr Trump has announced a peace deal by which Russia and Ukraine have agreed not to target each other\u2019s fuel plants, Russia appears to have stepped up its attacks. He has emboldened his enemy.\n<\/p>\n
\n Then comes his distressing posting, on social media, of a tiger attacking William Chapman \u2013 a man with \u201csignificant mental illness\u201d \u2013 in the Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster. Mr Trump added the tagline: \u201cDon\u2019t ever mess with nature.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n It was very questionable whether this was an appropriate action for a US president, but he has followed it up with an AI-generated video showing himself apparently mimicking Mr Chapman\u2019s movements and then wrestling a tiger to the ground over the soundtrack of The Lion Sleeps Tonight.\n<\/p>\n
\n It shows a callous lack of judgement and that it is the US president, the leader of the free world, who is himself looking worryingly deluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However\u2026 Firstly, the president announces a deal with Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply the US with diesel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-803239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}