Donald Trump has no chance of winning the US presidential election, best-selling US writer Douglas Kennedy has said — but if he did, he would be an “American Mussolini”. “Trump has no chance,” said Kennedy of the Republican candidate in next month’s US presidential election.
But the fact that he was even in the running for the White House was indicative of “the rise of the far right all around the world,” he said in an interview at his home in Paris.
“It’s not just a US phenomenon,” he said, pointing to what he called the “Brexit disaster”, when Britain voted in a referendum in June to pull out of the European Union.
“Donald Trump is misogynist, misanthropic,” said Kennedy. “He has an ego the size of Canada. He has no culture, he never reads. “Compared to Trump, (former US president) George W. Bush was Chateaubriand,” he quipped, referring to the French 18th century writer and historian.