NO-ONE should shed tears over Donald Trump’s no-show for next month’s official opening of the new US embassy in south London.

For all his macho bravery as a keyboard warrior on Twitter, locked alone in his bedroom with his cheeseburgers, the US president has bottled out of a visit that would have laid bare the contempt people in Britain feel for him.

Not that he would have been in any physical danger, surrounded by his own security agents and the ranks of the Metropolitan Police, but every media chain in the world, especially the US-based networks he has abused as “fake news,” would have ensured global coverage of massed, hostile but peaceful demonstrations.