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I'm not familiar with Chamberlain's performance, but Trump's performance was embarrassing to the point of emasculation. It was painful to watch.

I wasn't impressed with that performance. At the very least, I was expecting Putin to drink a glass of water while Trump was speaking.

I think Setanta is being rather unfair to Neville Chamberlain in this comparison.

Putin was probably afraid to drink anything for fear of laughing and spitting water out his nose.

Chamberlain didn't have business interests and contacts in Germany going back long before he became an MP. Chamberlain was ineffectual and blindly optimistic, Trump is a crook.

Ordinarily I am unimpressed by someone stating the bloody obvious, but in this case, it can't be said often enough.

I wasn't disagreeing with your analogy, it's just that Trump's tenure has been such a heady mix of lies, racism, incompetence, corruption, stupidity, nepotism and treachery that's it's nigh on impossible to find anything comparable. I heard tale of Millard Fillmore, but even he doesn't do the bastard justice.

Maybe Warren Harding, but most historians and biographers believe that his wife was running that show. I fully acknowledge that Neville Chamberlain was an amiable fool, and not the least bit evil. (Old Joe Chamberlain must have been spinning in his grave.) Truthfully, it is an insult to the memory of Neville. It might have been better if Austin had been PM. Neville seems to have been uniquely hoodwinked--when Édouard Daladier returned to Paris, the crowds cheered him--he turned to an aide and said: "O, les cons."

Austen . . . I should have written Austen.