I considered adding this caustic editorial to the Trump thread but it's probably better here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... presidents
There is an emerging political phenomenon that poses a unique threat to international stability and our collective sanity. It is the growing influence of what is sometimes known, in political jargon, as the Idiot Adult Son. From Donald Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, Jair Bolsonaro to Rodrigo Duterte, the world’s most awful leaders all seem to have knuckleheaded offspring who are doing their best to be just like Dad, and doing a lot of damage in the process...
Yair Netanyahu, the eldest son of Israel’s prime minister, is also adept at being awful online. Last month he went on a racist rant on Twitter saying that “there is no such thing” as Palestine because the letter “P” does not appear in the Arabic alphabet. Yair, a man with the intellectual capacity of a half-dead moth, didn’t seem aware that Palestine is the Anglicised version of the Arabic word falasteen. He also didn’t seem to have considered, as various people pointed out, that there’s no “J” in Hebrew. Which, by his impeccable logic, would mean there’s no such thing as a Jewish person...
Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, for example, has built a bloody brand around executing anyone who has anything to do with drugs. It has proved more than a little awkward, then, that his eldest son, Paolo, is constantly being linked to the drug trade...