THERE is nothing worse than having a guest around and then having to entertain him for a few days when you really don’t want to.

I can understand people’s frustrations at President Trump visiting the UK but all in all things turned out pretty ‘okay’.

You can’t really expect us not to invite our closest ally and prohibit him from being wined and dined with Royalty.

Her Majesty has had to entertain a lot worse than Trump over the years.

If you have had the likes of Robert Mugabe, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Vladimir Putin and King Abdullah meet the Queen, then Trump is a comparative saint.

It is almost embarrassing to even suggest that he shouldn’t have met the Queen.

Barring the huge not-fake protests which attracted thousands, the visit will be remembered for his obsession with the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.

If you are going to offend someone then at least have the courtesy to spell his name correctly.

Most readers will be aware that Mr Trump referred to ‘Khan’ as ‘Kahn’.

Now, after having been at the wrong end of such ignorance over the years, I have to say there really is no excuse for this.

In my case I have folk not being able to spell my first name correctly due to them switching the ‘a’ and ‘I’. That is forgivable and no big deal.

But Kahn? Come on.

Even a five-year-old can write that out and not misspell it.

More to the point the visit did remind us what the future has in store for us.

We live in a world where people are fast forgetting who said what and when.

It is easy to get away with saying things that some years back would have been deemed irresponsible.

We have got used to the chaos. The problem is people tend only to remember the here and now.

Mr Trump is very active on Twitter and says some things hardly becoming of a president.

Within 24 hours people have forgotten what he said a few days earlier. It is easy for him to test the waters and see what is and what is not acceptable.

And we are lapping it all up.

I find it a little worrying that Trump and, for that matter, Boris Johnson are now being seen as your typical leaders and what people should aspire to.