When I was preparing to come over to the UK for a mini-tour a week ago, I did an interview to promote them with the Independent, a center left national newspaper here. Most of our chat was jolly and drag-related, but at the end the interviewer asked me this: “You’re taking this show to quite a few countries. How does it feel to travel abroad with someone like Trump as your president?” I told him it was embarrassing, but only a bit more embarrassing than other GOP presidents whose terms I’d lived through. I then told him that I’m not in the habit of weighing up different GOP presidents or tr ..read more