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Donald and Boris Trump; wreckers, disrupters and spoilers of world order

An illustration photo of US President Donald Trump and UK's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The two are instinctively wreckers, disrupters and spoilers, narcissists seriously be guilty of an inflated sense of their smartness. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG

By  Jenerali Ulimwengu

Columnist

Boris Johnson got the job he wanted, and went to parliament to receive his expected baptism of fire in a rowdy session of the House on Thursday.

One day after he assumed the premiership, Johnson went to make his maiden speech, and came under a barrage of boos and heckles.

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