Donald Trump's campaign to be president is based on lies, racism and insults

            

Donald Trump’s campaign to be President of the United States is based on lies, insults and toe-curling racism – and he doesn’t give a damn.

That’s because he’s still topping most of the polls to be the Republican candidate in next year’s race.

His latest comments were particularly repellent, even by his own gutter-scraping standards.

He called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the United States.

Despite his bile towards them, Trump , with a Scottish mother and German grandparents, is descended, like most Americans, from immigrants.

        

Yet the key to the appeal of the former military school pupil is that he differs from his compatriots by achieving the American dream, making himself a billionaire and a TV star in the process.

But while vitriol like Trump’s would normally sink anyone running for office, he’s still going strong.

And he seems determined to prove himself the most repugnant American politician ever.

               

                                         Repugnant: Donald Trump

The tycoon has been lapping up the publicity with the chutzpah of someone with a £2.6billion fortune and nothing to lose.

Referring to the 9/11 attacks , he said that if his call for a ban on Muslims was not heeded, there were going to be “many, many more World Trade Centers”.

The swaggering, bouffant-haired star of the US Apprentice is also known for his casual sexism and his even more casual racism.

He infamously claimed that during the 9/11 attacks “thousands of thousands of Arabs” in New Jersey “were cheering as that building was coming down”.