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‘OK, that’s enough’ (AFP/Getty)

In an interview at the beginning of this week President Trump was asked whether he would have done things differently during his first two years in office, if he could have his time over again.

“I would say tone,” he replied. “I would like to have a much softer tone.”

Two days later, with the results of the midterm elections proving that the US is as divided now as it was when Trump came to office, the president seemed to prove that any ambition to soften his tone had lasted about as long as Jeff Sessions’ hopes of staying in his job.