PM has decided best way to deal with Trump is shower him with praise, before gently suggesting alternatives – and hope he won’t realise he’s been criticised

There are times when Westminster politics feels unimportant. A diverting sideshow at best. After Donald Trump’s overnight announcement that he wants the US to own Gaza, to displace 1.8 million Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan, who have already said they don’t want them, and to turn the territory into a new Riviera, Wednesday was such a day. A moment when you have to ask yourself, what the hell just happened?

And no doubt we can expect many more such days in the next four years if the US president maintains his Maga “speak first, think later” persona. That’s assuming that thinking will make any difference. It’s possible The Donald is delusional enough to believe all this stuff. That when he collides with reality, it’s reality that has to change. He makes Boris Johnson look like Winston Churchill.