If it's any consolation, we have similar hate figures over this side of the Atlantic too.

Katie Hopkins was a hate figure on the UK version of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, and before that she was a hate figure on the UK version of The Apprentice, and in between she was nobbing married men.

She's now standing for election in the European Parliament. Here's her manifesto: http://www.katiehopkins.co.uk/MEP.html