Donald Trump reminds me of my son as a toddler – fortunately, one of them is starting to grow up

Will someone have to drag Trump out of the White House kicking and screaming, like I used to have to drag my toddler away from a playdate, asks Konnie Huq

In the driving seat: Donald Trump still holds sway in the Republican Party due to his popularity (Getty)

This week, in an extraordinary move, Donald Trump invited Republican leaders and lawmakers from Michigan to the White House to see if there was one last loophole in the system, which he could exploit in order to subvert the results of the recent US election. I say an extraordinary move, but it’s not extraordinary at all when you consider who’s making it. If it were any other person in any other world, extraordinary would be a fitting word, but with Trump we have come to realise that nothing is extraordinary.

Ever since American elections have been held, the way it works is that the 538 electoral college voters support the candidate whom the people of their state have elected. This is a formality, and not upholding it would be as preposterous as Boris Johnson ringing up a couple of the returning officers in our general election and trying to convince them to declare that the Conservative candidate had won in a constituency where Labour had been victorious. It just would not happen. People would not let it happen. Yet here we are, reading news stories about how this has happened in the US. Suffice to say, the electoral college representatives said no. Thank goodness.

The problem is that Donald Trump still holds so much sway in the Republican Party due to his popularity that it makes it hard for Republicans to say no to him, disagree with him, and not constantly massage his ego while pandering to his every whim. Despite the fact that he lost the election, he got more votes than any other elected president in history – other than Joe Biden. He is a very popular man, albeit at the same time very unpopular. Much like Marmite, Trump divides. This is often the case with populist “character” politicians.