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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

Margaret Greer 3 days ago
Brilliant. Thank you.
Steve Murray 3 days ago
That is amazingly spot on, I applaud you sir!
Kimberly Boal 6 days ago
Describes Trump Perfectly. Look at His Cabinet Picks.
Felix Justice 20 days ago
I had always thought and hoped that America was a big-hearted society, reflecting the magnanimity and generousness of Howard Thurman, Adlai E Stevenson and Lewis Mumford. Lamentiably, it turned out to be quite the opposite: venal, small-minded, bigoted, paranoid. Trump country. I do think, however, that time and a life of lies have exacted a price. I expect his diminished mental state to break down completely in the near term.
Felix Justice 22 days ago
In the age of Classical Greece, Plato penned the allegory of the cave, in which he imagined a period when humanity would be deprived of sunshine and thus enlightenment, and would see only the shadows cast by the sun. The people of the cave would then begin to view the shadows as genuine reality and proceed to make their life decisions based on this skewed vision. In 1965, Entertainment Television was judged to be a vast wasteland, a modern-times representation of Plato’s cave. Since that time, Entertainment Television has gotten steadily worse, peddling legalized narcotics and dumb diversions like The Apprentice. But the damage had already been done. The public gulped down the pills and grew enamored of The Apprentice,, a shadowy, phony reality. The people began to perceive that the fake was real - that what glistened must be gold. But it’s all fake. Now we have a fake star trying to be a real star, and people by the millions have been duped. And that is because Entertainment Television is itself a narcotic, an agent intended to numb the mind and suspend the capacity to judge. Every serious person who has spent any time at all around the President-elect has testified to his shallowness, his incuriosity, his arrested development. But they forget his genius as a star of reality television, and these are the qualities that have many of his countrymen in thrall. Fake, of course, but enticing. The big question after the Second World War was: How can a nation that produced Beethoven and Kant and Thomas Mann and Schiller come up with a murderous clown like der Fuhrer? The question now is: How can a nation that produced such luminaries as James Baldwin, Abraham Lincoln and Bob Moses also spew out the riffraff of this Fuhrer lite? That responsibility, in large part, lies with Entertainment Television which traffics in falsity and fakery and serves as an engine driving the debasement of the human spirit
AnnT 23 days ago
Paul, I see you are using your Trump’s Catalog of Lies and Misinformation, Volume 14, for your response.

Trump’s response to the pandemic threat was investigated by a House Select committee, in which Dr. Deborah Birx testified to Trump’s stubborn refusal to take the pandemic seriously. I’m sure you remember Dr. Birx…. She was the doctor who looked horrified when Trump suggested injecting bleach as a cure for Covid. The committee found that the Trump administration repeatedly ignored the pandemic/testing advice from TOP INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERTS. Dr. Birx testified that she could conveniently “go out of town” during Trump’s advisor meetings to give them cover. Furthermore, Dr. Birx stated that Trump’s committee was a “fringe group without grounding in epidemics, public health, or on the ground common sense experience.” Just who you would want to head a national health crisis response, right?

The Trump administration repeatedly blocked the CDC’s requests for public briefings for three months. They also refused a CDC request in April 2020 to hold a briefing to advise face coverings. And let’s not forget that Trump was shipping off Covid testing kits to his Russian idol while Americans couldn’t obtain the kits.

Facts are important.
Paul 24 days ago
The dipshit in this column who stated Trump botched the response to Covid is so blatantly wrong. Trump forced the drug companies to come up with a virus and held them harmless from law suits if there were side effects from it. This saved lives and millions from infection or worse. Trumps worse feature from a European standpoint is he wants Europe to pay their own way to defend itself. It’s not a USA problem even though we spend billions to help, with absolutely no gratitude.
Felix Justice 24 days ago
And also, just to reiterate to the leftist swine I’ve done nothing wrong. Ever.
Felix Justice 24 days ago
Damn liberal fascists posturing and preening calling me coarse and common and uncultured, saying I lack subtlety and a feeling for nuance, that I belong in the sewer alongside Marjorie and Matt, well I’ll show their asses a thing or two, now that I have absolute power, starting with open borders, yes those borders will be open alright, in a southerly direction - shipping millions of brown skinned folk who have been raping and murdering our young virgins, marauding the land, stealing from the stores, shooting up our Pentecostal Churches, poisoning our youths with lethal narcotics - shipping these bandits and low lives back to their miserable homelands, by the millions, no more pussy-footing around, Final Solution Time when it comes to the border! Plus I will drill, drill, drill. Why are we buying oil from Iran when we have loads of beautiful oil underneath our own soil? Climate change worriers? Ignore them. The earth was here before they were born and it will be here after they’re gone. It’s like the wars in Yemen and Gaza and the Ukraine & Lebanon, God! these people have been killing each other forever! none of our business if they continue to do so. Let ‘em have at it. I’m an American Firster, no holds barred, Vladimir is my friend, we don’t have to concern ourselves with him, he’s never coming after Alaska. Trust me. One other thing my bleeding heart tormentors should know is that I am resolute in my toughness Criminals should pay. Our streets should be safe, just like they are in Singapore. Bill, my tough attorney general and I showed our mettle last time around when we set a record for Federal Executions. That was just a small sample of what is to come. There has never been a stronger advocate for the death penalty than I because I am tough. Our citizens will rejoice in my toughness when all is said and done and they will thank me, the greatest President ever by far and and they will be safe and happy. Like me.
Felix Justice 27 days ago
How grand to have Mr and Mrs Trump back in the White House exemplifiing the authentic love between married partners so favored by Real Americans. Can’t you just feel the loving bond that exists with this couple? A relief, too, to be done with those artificial Obamas. (Where’re they from? The jungles of Tojo?)

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