Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent 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 sniveling 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 most 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.”
75 Comments
Pingback: In 2020 750 articles caught the interest of almost 200.000 readers at Bergensia - Bergensia
Pingback: hydroxychloroquine order amazon
Pingback: hydroxychloroquine treatment success
Pingback: sarcoptic mange hydroxychloroquine dosage
Pingback: effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine
Pingback: ivermectil dispersible tablets
Pingback: dapoxetine over the counter
Pingback: hydroxychloroquine 400 mg 5 cc
Pingback: stromectol capsules 12 mg price
Pingback: stromectol high
Pingback: max dose ivermectin oral
Pingback: The World's Sustainable Gazette - Bergensia.com - Bergensia
Pingback: is stromectol over the counter
Pingback: stromectol 6 for sale
Pingback: soolantra 6 for ascariasis infection
Pingback: plaquenil for dry cough
Pingback: ivermectin company stock
Pingback: ivermectin dosing in obesity and scabies
Pingback: ivermectin use in humans
Pingback: ivermectin 3 mg tablet
Pingback: average cost of viagra prescription
Pingback: viagra 100 mg coupon
Pingback: medstore online india
Pingback: non prescription cialis
Pingback: hydroxychloroquine plaquenil for sale
Pingback: stromectol for sale amazon
Pingback: cialis paypal australia
Pingback: where to buy generic tadalafil
Pingback: ingredients in cialis
Pingback: viagra and dapoxetine
Pingback: can you buy generic viagra over the counter
Pingback: The World's Sustainable Gazette - Bergensia
Pingback: GOP & MAGATs turn CPAC into a Neo-Nazi gathering #HeilHyatt or #BoycottHyatt - Bergensia
Pingback: low cost cialis
Pingback: zithromax 500
Pingback: otc viagra alternatives
Pingback: tadalafil citrate 5mg
Pingback: sildenafil 200mg price
Pingback: meloxicam strength vs ibuprofen
Pingback: Anonymous
Pingback: Anonymous
Pingback: cialis versus viagra
Pingback: augmentin thrush
Pingback: klebsiella augmentin
Pingback: omnicef price
Pingback: cefdinir classification
Pingback: tetracycline
Pingback: erythromycin oin
Pingback: azithromycin solvent
Pingback: fish azithromycin
Pingback: cephalexin reviews
Pingback: metronidazole
Pingback: celebrex medication class
Pingback: side effects of ivermectin in humans
Pingback: ivermectin uk boots
Pingback: ivermectin 18mg
Pingback: ivermectin monash
Pingback: lucky land slots play now
Pingback: ivermectin 0.08 oral solution
Pingback: buy stromectol online
Pingback: purchase stromectol
Pingback: ivermectin overdose
Pingback: ivermectin price usa
Pingback: ivermectine posologie
Pingback: ivermectin generic cream
Pingback: ivermectin 90 mg
Pingback: cheap tadalafil
Pingback: buy ivermectin cream for humans
Pingback: ivermectin ivermectinst
Pingback: ivermectin tablets for humans australia
Pingback: 2tableau
Pingback: viagra
Pingback: revatio
Pingback: If we nominate Trump we are going to be destroyed, and we’ll deserve it. - Lindsey Graham on Twitter 11:03 PM · May 3, 2016 - Bergensia
Pingback: The World's Sustainable Gazette Bergensia features 1100 articles with 300.000 readers worldwide - Bergensia