Well, in principle i get you - but taking for instance, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, as seriously (or, in the same vein anyway) as Trump is, to me, a grave error which will have you doing and saying things I would liken to a panicked middle-aged woman trying to figure out why her computer is saying "Restart".

ISIS won't create it's Caliphate, but at least they did have a serious attempt.



And people actually did take in the end the franchise very seriously... and are taking it. The situation in Sahel is still extremely volatile. Remember Trump's cruise missile attack in Nigeria. Not so long ago.

I've worded that badly - I take him more seriously than Don. I think its a far, far bigger threat than a meme, regardless of how unbecoming it is of the office.