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British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read

Nate White
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
Comments

Alligator Alcatraz 1 hour ago
Looking at photos of ICE's new detention center in the Florida Everglades nicknamed "Alligator Alcatranz," I kept thinking that I have seen similar photos. And then it hit me: Auschwitz. Dachau. Bergen-Belsen. Buchenwald. The list goes on. As they say in German: Orte des Schreckens (Places of Horror). So, let's call ICE detention centers what they really are: CONCENTRATION CAMPS. And the parallels with the Germany of the 1930s and 40s become even more profound. And you Amerikaner did this to yourselves. You deserve every bad thing that happens to you. And I will feel great Schadenfreude.
Felix Justice 2 hours ago
A defining feature of Trump’s pathology is his sadism.
Mark LIEBERMAN 1 day ago
I'm a Chicagoan who got this article third or fourth hand. I'm thankful I did. Although it is witty, it is surely wise. It sums up Trump very well.

I just have to hope that in our next congressional election (now about 1 1/2 months away) we begin to see some real indication that we Yankees goofed up by selecting not only Trump but also the gutless Republican party which he so completely dominates.
Felix Justice 5 days ago
The buffoon Trump is mentally unwell. For the most part, the mentally Ill are not buffoons.
Francisco 7 days ago
Concisely completely correct. So despicable that classical Greek tragic heroes would cringe at Trump.
Felix Justice 11 days ago
Donald Trump is clinically insane.
Felix Justice 12 days ago
Boelter, Rittenhouse, valiant MAGA warriors
Michael Saelens 14 days ago
Absolutely nailed Trump to the wall.

As someone who grew up on America's East Coast (near Washington, D.C.), before finally escaping to the Great Midwest (Chicago) in 1995, like most people who lived then in the 250-mile-long New York-Washington corridor, I was subjected to his antics on pretty much a daily basis.

Everything he said or did was fodder for the already compliant and largely lazy mainstream news media, which I worked in for 25 years. His name and image were plastered everywhere and even then, his failures. His six bankruptcies included not one, but TWO casinos. How can anyone bankrupt even one casino, which are pretty much like what you Brits would call "cashpoints" (ATM's here in the States) much less two of them?

Thanks for an entertaining and informative look at how our Orange Menace is seen in the UK.
Bernie Barton 17 days ago
I think this article has been out for awhile; I recognize the lines about Nixon and W- trump is in no universe with them or any others. Simply, the American public selected him specifically for his buffoonery, to attack an order it finds too empathetic and let chaos reign. But you can well believe this will not stand.
Wilhelm Canaris 19 days ago
For fascism to survive, it must kill.
For Trumpism to survive, it must kill.
The nightmare has only just begun.
Trump's Reign of Terror has only just begun.
The worst is yet to come.
Just wait. You'll see.

"It Can't Happen Here" is happening here. Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act and put America under martial law. There will be tanks in the streets and soldiers with unsheathed bayonets. There will be checkpoints everywhere where "Show me your papers" will be the phrase most commonly heard. He will suspend the mid-term Federal Congressional elections in 2026 which the Republicans will surely lose in order to hang on to power. He will suspend the Constitution. He will suspend the 2028 Federal elections for president and Congress in order to remain "Dear Leader." America's dictatorship will be firmly in place. And you Americans did it to yourselves. You stupid, stupid, stupid people.

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