By Donald Trump is many things, but a natural comedian he is not. Occasionally he manages to accidentally write himself into a Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em-style farce or upset actual comedians by pretending to take phone calls, but generally his gags are rubbish.
He waffles. He repeats himself. He goes down blind alleys. He's a bit like Billy Connolly in that sense, but Billy Connolly if he had only seen 'stand-up comedy' described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was obsessed with walls.
However, he's been heard cracking out some new material today. Speaking to Vladimir Putin at the G20, Trump smirkingly asked the taciturn ex-spymaster and latter-day strongman: "Don’t meddle in the election, please". Ho ho ho. Look out, John Bishop and Kevin Bridges, there's a new pretender to the Christmas stand-up DVD sales crown.
Trump didn't push the topic of election interference any further in front of reporters, but did add that it was a "great honour" to be with Putin, and touted their "very, very good relationship" as well as predicting "a lot of very positive things" would come of their meeting.
He also said that the media scrum around himself and Putin was "like the Academy Awards," which is a bit of a stretch. You get about the same amount of press at the British Soap Awards. You're roughly on a par with the cast of Doctors. Don't get ahead of yourself.
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