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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

Richard W. Memmer 1 day ago
"He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness." I wish I'd thought of that (along with a lot of other things in that exceptional piece). But Trump is just a symptom of the cancer that America has become: Behavior that's an embarrassment to the entire history of human achievement. 20 years ago, it would have been impossible for Trump to be seriously considered, let alone win. If you're not looking into that, you're not looking!

So while it's satisfying to read such an articulate smackdown of this abomination of a human being, monumental moron, and embarrassment for the ages: It accomplishes absolutely nothing! In fact, it makes matters even worse -- as defenders of the indefensible just double down on defending what cannot survive even the slightest objective scrutiny.

What is going through the mind of the person who wrote the following: "Your article is rubbish and you are trash to describe Donald Trump that way. You don’t know him and its you that is class less. You believe in cheats that show off with the people's money and lie. You know nothing about Trump. You follow hear say main stream bias American news where they lie and play politics. Sorry for you."

Countless millions "thinking" the same way will never be reached by conventional means. It's high time to try another approach. Search the following title on YouTube to see what I have in mind: "Sounds of Silence: The Deafening Noise of a Nation Decades in Decline"

Thank you for your time!
Felix Justice 3 days ago
Donald Trump is clinically insane.
Felix Justice 8 days ago
I’m trying to imagine, which of our Presidents, after the incumbent, is the most intellectually impoverished, and the most hateful and bigoted? Andrew Johnson, perhaps. But he runs a distant second.
Felix Justice 10 days ago
Donald Trump is possessed by rage; he is clinically insane.
Richard Pontone 10 days ago
I am not a Bible Thumper nor do I attend any Church, but if this Abomination is not “The Anti-Christ” then no one is.
Unlike the last one, Adolf Hitler, Trump has the button to launch 1500 American Nukes and if you don’t think he isn’t going to use it,then you must have bought the Brooklyn Bridgr.
Alligator Alcatraz 13 days 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 13 days ago
A defining feature of Trump’s pathology is his sadism.
Mark LIEBERMAN 15 days 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 19 days ago
The buffoon Trump is mentally unwell. For the most part, the mentally Ill are not buffoons.
Francisco 21 days ago
Concisely completely correct. So despicable that classical Greek tragic heroes would cringe at Trump.

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