Remorseful right-wing commentators wishing there had been some sort of clue that Trump was a democracy-denying narcissist

Far-right enabling ‘journalists’ in the UK have expressed their shock that Donald Trump has turned out to be exactly what everyone else has been calling him for the last 10 years.

Columnist and podcaster Simon Williams, who vomits out hate-filled gobshite hot-takes for money, admitted his dismay that Trump had abandoned America’s traditional allies and was delivering the Ukraine on a plate to a psychopathic mass murderer simply because he wants to be liked.

“I do regret worshipping the ground Trump walks on,” says Williams.

“But in my defence, how could I have possibly known how things would turn out? It’s not as if there were any clues, is it?

“I mean when he called Putin ‘very smart’ after he invaded Ukraine, we all thought that was just Trump being Trump and that he didn’t really mean it.

“As for his abandoning of democratic institutions and his obvious love of dictators there was no indication of this before he won in November, apart from the January 6th insurrection – but as I wrote at the time that was just a bit of harmless fun that got a bit out of hand wasn’t it?

“And I’m aware that the woke left called him a sex-pest just because he thinks it’s ok to grab women by the genitals without consent, and because a jury found him liable for sexual abuse, but we were all willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on that, weren’t we? Weren’t we?

“Still, you live and learn, right? Well, unless you’re Ukrainian of course.”