The president-elect’s single-minded approach should point the way for Britain’s dithering Prime Minister, but it won’t.

After a sensational election campaign, you’d think it would take a brave man to write off Donald Trump’s chances of making a success of the presidency. Yet so many are doing just that.

But a look into the psyche of somebody who is now, without doubt, the world’s most successful person, should tell you that he is capable of not just being a competent president, but a brilliant president.

Why did Donald Trump run in the first place, stepping on territory that so many businessmen dare not go near? Three words.

Fear of failure.

A 70-year-old man, Trump had clearly decided that if he went to his grave as a famous business leader and presenter of a popular reality show. Well then, so what.

Only by becoming leader of the free world could he have, in his view, lived his life to its full potential.

It is this fear of failure that could be his greatest asset at the White House. He won’t be happy being mediocre, let alone the long-running joke pundits have already written him off as. If he leaves the presidency as Barack Obama did, with positive approval ratings but little discernible legacy, that will not be good enough.

Equally, this quality could make him into a disaster. Just ask Tony Blair, whose insatiable, narcissistic need to cement a legacy led to poor decision making. But what is certain is America now has what it has craved for so many years, a leader who will lead.

Hillary Clinton could never have looked like she was in charge and that is ultimately why she lost.

Whether you call them advisors, lobbyists, big business or even illuminati, for too long there has been a sense that the US president receives orders from a small group that do not have the best interests of the American people at heart.

Anyone who thought the president was at the mercy of corporations will no doubt be delighted to see Trump’s campaign punchbag, Ford, this week announce that they will add 700 jobs to their current plant in Michigan rather than opening a $1.6bn new plant in Mexico after threats of a 35% tariff if they try to import the vehicles.

CEO Mark Fields even issued a grovelling statement, explaining how encouraged he was with Trump’s plans.

He said: “There’s going to be a more favourable business environment for U.S. manufacturing because of Donald Trump. A more positive environment for the manufacturing industry is good for the economy. We’ll see if he can deliver on that. But we’ve delivered our early vote of confidence.”

Many of America’s allies, who were gearing up for business as usual under Hillary, are now competing to see who can deliver the highest praise for the incoming administration. Britain and Israel both sniped Barack Obama, knowing he’s now a relic of the old world order, and the likes of Saudi Arabia and Turkey have fallen into line as quickly as humanly possible.

But where Trump has really excelled during the transition period is in working out what voters voted for. He realised outlandish promises such as prosecuting Hillary Clinton and banning all Muslims from the country could be discarded without too much political damage.

On the other hand, the promise of a better relationship with Russia, which the media have treated as if it’s nothing but small print, looks set to be a cornerstone of the new administration’s policy, because that’s what the people want.

In his cabinet appointments he has shown that he really does want to ‘Drain the Swamp’ as career politicians fall by the wayside. To Secretary of State, he appointed former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, because he realised that any Republican politicians who may have been qualified for the job were so discredited on foreign policy by their ties to the Bush Administration that only an outsider could represent real change.

Trump’s campaign manager and Breitbart chief Steve Bannon was appointed Chief Advisor, which saw yet more sulking from people who never wanted the president-elect to win in the first place. Heaven forbid Trump should want to be advised by the man who masterminded the biggest upset ever, and actually knew what voters wanted, rather than some aloof, career Republican who undermined him at every turn.

The contrasts with Britain are stark. Theresa May has become Prime Minister as the Leave campaign leaders have left the field. Yet we know more about the plans of a Trump administration that isn’t even in power yet than a British leader who has already held office for six months.

Up next I explain why May does not get it and is destined to disappoint