And while you might also not like it, it is hard to deny that President Trump is the most powerful man on the planet. That is one reason, of course, why he has been a source of such turbulence: he knows it too. He knows that he can ask for the Kennedy Centre to be renamed to include his own name alongside that of JFK, perhaps the most iconic of all the American presidents of the 20th century. He knows that he can effectively cripple or even dissolve NATO, that he can cut deals with President Putin and President Xi, should he so wish, that need pay no regard to the wishes of the people of Ukraine, Taiwan or anywhere else.