Prime Minister�David Cameron's remark on Trump, especially the notion that Trump "deserves respect," looks ill-considered and dangerous. Perhaps Cameron is betting Trump will lose in the Presdential election in any case, but that he needs some kind of insurance if things go south and Trump became President. So many voters �in the US have noticed, in particular, Donald Trump's lack of respect and regard for virtually everyone except himself.

To some he is nothing less than a self-worshipping egomania, liar, misogynist, xenophobe, demagogue, a buffoon, who once begged a Saudi Arabian Arab prince to bail him from bankruptcy, now the new Messiah of the angry illiterate, poor working whites. Is he really worth respecting?

The general election is not in the bag. After two�terms of Bush Jr, �the average American conservative will vote for an utterly unqualified buffoon if the alternative is somebody with 'D' next to their name on the ballot slip. This will be a fight. For the conservative element the time�to begin fighting it is now - Hillarty�Clinton understands this, and is trying to shift to general election mode (for months...), and trying (and failing) to unify the party. .

Trump is a real threat. He'll do less damage than we imagine, but more than we'd care for. And the election will not�be the easy coast for glory the hard-core supporters of either democratic nomination candidate think it will be.

The thing Cameron respects is nothing to do with the man but his billions. Cameron is looking forward to his own billions when he leaves office and follows other politicians into lining their pockets with directorships of banks and energy companies, lecture tours of the world and buy to let rental ownership.

As usual with potential Republican Presidents, they are portrayed as witless, unthinking, buffoons. Trump is getting exactly the same treatment as Reagan, George and Dubya Bush did. But like them the more he is ridiculed the more popular he seems to get.

To be honest, the fact that so many in the US have been willing to vote Trump despite the 'Hitler rallies' similarity is truly terrifying to the rest of the world. That's a lot of US citizens willing to back someone who can't stop racist, misogynistic, uneducated, aggressive mind-pollution pouring out of his over-large mouth.

Donald Trump deserves and needs to be taken seriously, but he does not deserve respect. Marine Le Pen also deserves to be taken seriously, but does not deserve respect. Nobody deserves respect if they do not respect others. Donald Trump and those like him do not respect large�groups of people, in Donald's case, he doesn't respect women, so that's 50% of people he doesn't respect to start with, then there's people of the muslim faith and �other groups, so how can anyone respect him?
Cameron should clarify whether he respects Trump because he is now a serious political player or whether he respects him because he admires him for his achievments however it is submitted that Trump is no less than a�thin-skinned narcissistic bully. The fact that he's won the Republican Primary only demonstrates that popular democracy has been lost to the myth that one person's ignorance is as valuable as another person's knowledge.

This article was written by Saurav Dutt for American Herald Tribune on May 6, 2016. Saurav Dutt is the Guardian Books and LA Times Book short-listed British author of fiction and nonfiction works. He wrote for The Guardian, The Independent; he is a novelist, independent film producer, playwright, screenwriter, graphic design illustrator and above all, an accomplished author and writer.