Donald Trump is a bully, not a strongman. And Australia will pay for his destruction as he panders to the mega-rich | Julianne Schultz

Performance is all for the US president, who is intent on creating a world dreamt of by global libertarian thinktanks

For six weeks we watched as Donald Trump - primped with golden hair, bronzer, fat pens and a zigzag signature - played the lead role in his new series, The Strongman. It was solid, not great, television, driven by an unspoken, looming threat - what will he do next?

This makes sense if you understand that on the way to creating a new world order of unfettered, red-blooded, male-dominated American capitalism, there is also a cultural revolution. As Stephen Marche writes in the Atlantic: Washington today can be understood only as a product of show business, not of law or policy."