The events in Washington two days ago may have surprised and shocked many, but they should really have been seen coming. Denying election results, sulking in a stew of victimhood and demanding others do the bidding he will not do himself, Trump is almost the perfect agent of destruction.

Coddled from birth with the proverbial silver spoon, enabled by legions of sycophants, never held to account for his deceits and incompetence, this awful person somehow captured the highest position in a once honourable political party and then, the top position in the land.

It is not such a long road from that point to what occurred on Thursday. The people who raided the Capitol Building were themselves much deceived, feasting and as they have on a diet of lies and geed-up at every turn by the master coward to 'bombard the headquarters'.

He cannot go soon enough.