LET this all make sense. Donald Trump now seems to think Europe is the enemy. Or this week’s enemy. It can be hard to keep up.

Any day now he’ll be shouting at his own shadow – “If you don’t stop following me around like that, I’ll have you deported in chains.”

Oh, and if you have ever posted anything mean about him, you’ll not be allowed into America. More of that in a moment.

First, the US has published a security strategy that runs to 29 pages. Alongside much puffery about how well Trump is dong – so well, so much better than anyone ever in history before, etc – there is a warning about Europe. Economic stagnation, censorship of free speech, the suppression of political opposition, falling birthrates and migration all “raise the stark prospect of civilization erasure”, according to Trump.

In a poorly attended rally in Pennsylvania the other day, Trump raised the stark prospect that his own common decency had been erased for good. As if campaigning all over again, he wondered why the US only accepts people from “shithole countries” such as Somalia, adding: “Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden… from Denmark?”

Incidentally, why citizens from those sane and well-run countries would wish to move to a dwindling US remains a mystery.

And, scarily, US policy is now hard to distinguish from a Fox News broadcast or an unhinged Daily Telegraph columnist going off on a white supremacist rant.

Trump says Europe will be “unrecognizable in 20 years or less” and pledges to back far-right ultra-nationalist parties leading what he sees as the “resistance”.

Wow! Wake up Europe. Wake up Britain. Wake up the EU. Trump wants to rule the western world. That’s why he’s been putting out delusional messages about how all Europe is clamouring for him to be their president. They all love me, he says, reading off the cracked autocue of his mind. No we don’t. Many Europeans think you’re a dangerous, self-obsessional loon with thinner skin than the average sausage.

And wise up Keir Starmer. This is where crawling to Trump gets you. Offer him a totally unwarranted second state visit and he’ll grin like a self-swilled goon for a day only to throw it all back in your face.

Flatter his sorry old arse and all you’ll get in return are pledges to support the likes of Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson, and their far-right equivalents in other European countries.

A disproved right-wing conspiracy theory about “the great replacement theory” claims Muslims are moving into Europe in order to see off western culture. A foul fallacious idea now promulgated by the White House.

This is all bad, mad, wicked and wrong. Trump wants to extend his Maga movement into Europe, possibly to weaken or break the European Union. All of which must please Putin’s Russia no end.

No mystery then why wealthy, posh and entirely bogus man of the people Nigel Farage spends so much time in the US. He’s not interested in British politics as it is usually conducted. No, he’s after Trumpian help, money and validation. If you can’t see that, you’re looking down the wrong hole in the ground.

Trump also intends to introduce strict rules for anyone wishing to travel to the US. These include details of all social media accounts from the past five years. If you’ve said anything unkind about dwindling Don, you’ll not be let in. That’s me and approximately half of Europe staying at home then. Or visiting somewhere more congenial.

You may also have to provide your DNA. All phone numbers and email addresses from the past five years. And the same for family members. And – oh, I’ve had enough of repeating this authoritarian nonsense.

Ironies abound here. If free speech is so restricted in Europe, how come right-wingers receive so much unquestioning attention; how come Nigel Farage has so much exposure and media support, especially on the BBC?

And how come a president who endorses AI images of himself as a pilot king dumping loads of shit on his rebellious subjects gets to whinge about freedom of speech?

Oh, and if we’re talking about cultural invasion, which country has done the most to bombard the rest of the world with its values, music, films, TV and fast food? Yup, the US.

Now you may like US culture, or you may not. Personally I’ve always enjoyed many Hollywood films, the better sort of US TV and much of the music. Either way, we’re up to our necks in the stuff.

Now they’ve exported their barmy president, too. We’re sinking in Trump-swill. However much you try not to think about the man, he dwells in your tired mind. As this blog has just shown yet again.