Ian O’Doherty: Trump’s Colombian confrontation proves he can act tough – and that’s terrible news for Ireland

It is often said that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose, which is a polite way of saying they will lie to the voters to get into power. Donald Trump, as has become clear, is not your average politician. While it would be a mistake to say he campaigned in poetry (or if he did, it was more like those angry spoken-word rants by Jello Biafra or Henry Rollins), he has undeniably committed that most unusual of political sins: doing precisely what he said he would do when he was campaigning.

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