Trump's French bromance: geez guys, get a room


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As a compulsive creator of chaos, Trump will also envy the apparent order of Macron’s domestic record so far: imagine if the worst thing you had to worry about was a strike by rail workers, rather than mass shootings, a nascent race war and Stormy Daniels. Trump may also covet the appeal of a man who, like him, was elected by a groundswell movement that came seemingly from nowhere, but who is popular rather than merely populist.


Finally, it’s worth noting that Trump is a prime candidate for a bromance, as he seems to view women as commodities or sex toys, rather than human beings he could truly relate to. Which may make it awkward when it comes to Prime Minister May’s relationship with the hyper-masculine Trump. Can you imagine him tucking an out of place hair behind her ear? Exactly.


Of course, there have been other great bromances on the world stage. The one between Prince Harry and Barack Obama is ongoing; the one between Tony Blair and George W Bush was the opposite of Trump and Macron, with the younger, eager European the suppliant partner to the swaggering older American. We can see how bromances have flourished throughout history and in literature, too. Shakespeare’s plays are full of men who strike up sudden, passionate relationships, as are the Greek myths. Again, here, it is perhaps useful to draw a distinction between bromance, and sexual love. Achilles was “in love” with Patroclus during the Trojan War, just as Antonio is in love with Sebastian in Twelfth Night. Hamlet and Horatio are friends, as are Ant and Dec and Socrates and Plato. But Falstaff and Prince Hal have a bromance, as do Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.


However, unless it develops into a proper friendship (see Barack Obama, again, and Joe Biden) a bromance will rarely last. It burns too hot and brightly to endure and can end in tears.


Telegraph, London

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