When caring is ‘woke'

Some years ago, I sat in a small plane circling over Punta del Este in Uruguay. There was a delay and we sat in tense silence until we began our descent. Outside the tiny airport, a taxi ferried us past private Lear jets; these had been the cause of the hold-up. The driver pointed to two planes side by side. "This one is a Trump plane."

- Charlotte Grimshaw

He pointed to the other, painted entirely black. "That one is Russian oligarch." Why was a Trump jet parked up with some Russians? Sure enough, a Trump Tower was going up on the coastal strip bordering the Rio de la Plata.

Wherever he goes, he builds, so goes the myth he's taken from thin air and fakery to stark reality. There's that line you hear, "He's a businessman; he'll know how to run the place." We're used to a businessman running the country: every decision is about money. The only line is the bottom line. It's great when a businessman runs the nation, just don't complain if the place gets squalid. There's no such thing as society.