When you give no respect, you don't deserve any respect.

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24. I was thinking along the same line

He started OK: on election night gave what many described as a "conciliatory speech" which calmed at least the markets around the globe.

But then he started twittering and twittering, lashing at everyone and everything when he thought that his precious thin skin was touched.

Had he decided to be, yes, magnanimous, to let offenses go, to concentrate on his task to - gasp - listen to his advisers, he may have been now in a better position.