So what should Donald Trump have said to the Boy Scouts? I know | Jack Bernhardt

The US president’s keynote address to an audience of children has been criticised for its oddness. If he’s ever invited back, here’s what he should say

• Jack Bernhardt is a comedy writer

It was everyone’s favourite set of nightmarish bagpipes come to life: Donald Trump giving a speech on Monday to the Boy Scouts of America, for which he was – surprise, surprise – roundly criticised. Parents of the Boy Scouts called it an embarrassment – and if you look at the outfits they put their kids in, you’ll know that they do not embarrass easily.

Really, I think they were overreacting. Just because he happened to savage the media and threaten to fire a politician at a supposedly apolitical event, before leading the impressionable children in a round of booing his predecessor – it’s political correctness gone mad. Next you’ll be saying he can’t even set up his own wing of Trump Youth, where the kids get to salute pictures of his orange face.

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