Where are the adults, cries Trump fan Daniel Hannan

“This is demented. Outright batshit crazy. Where are the adults in the room? Why will no one rein him in?”

These were the words of Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan this week as Donald Trump went on a lengthy and unhinged rant on his Truth Social site about why he was lumping tariffs on a number of European countries, the UK included, for not backing his plan to unilaterally snatch Greenland. “Only the United States, under PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, can play in this game, and very successfully, at that!” wrote the carrot-coloured Caligula.

Perhaps the reason the “adults” will not “rein him in” is that some of those adults have been very busy telling everybody just how wonderful Trump is. Like the adult who wrote, directly ahead of the 2020 presidential election that “Trump’s flaws are many, but he’d be better for Britain than Biden”. This commentator noted that “Trump is unquestionably the more Anglophile candidate. He identifies strongly with his Scottish mother, and sometimes describes himself as half-British.”

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Or the adult who last year wrote an article headlined “We can’t let Labour drag us back into the shrinking orbit of the anti-Trump Eurosphere’, arguing that “Britain can no longer avoid the choice between the EU and US” and urging the government to ditch its erstwhile European allies and getting fully on board the Trump train. “The US economy is outperforming Europe’s on every metric,” wrote the columnist. “American freedom and innovation is plainly working better than EU regulation and censorship.”

Or indeed the adult who penned a comment piece for the Washington Examiner last year with the headline “After eight years, Britain is suddenly falling in love with Trump”.

The thing all these adults have in common, other than being slavish Trump fanboys? They’re all, er, Daniel John Hannan, Baron Hannan of Kingsclere.