Will Donald trump last

[big_cod]

[Ken L]

[Chris Plumb]

Apologies if this has been put up before (I did search for it but couldn't find it here) - its about a year old now but still a rather good summary...

Here is Nate White’s answer to the question, “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump.” It’s written so well, so strongly, that I wonder whether an intelligent rebuttal could ever be done.

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 ****.

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 **** was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

[chesters1]

So a yank is telling us how brits judge people (i presume its the yank?)lol

I have no problem with trump ,hes never been rude to me ,hes never obstructed my view and best of all those that elected him get him until they kill him or elect another waste of skin and those that didnt get him aswell

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by chesters1

[Phone]

Chesters1,

You should not have a worry one.

No collection of people on this planet are more judgmental than a collection of two or more Brits.  How one should fish is the best example that comes to mind

Phone 

[big_cod]

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by big_cod

[Chris Plumb]

Chesters - think the author of that WAS a Brit...

 

C.

[Ken L]

2 hours ago, Phone said:

Chesters1,

You should not have a worry one.

No collection of people on this planet are more judgmental than a collection of two or more Brits.  How one should fish is the best example that comes to mind

Phone 

We're so inefficient.

A single American can judge an entire nation.....

Edited May 3, 2020 by Ken L

[chesters1]

2 hours ago, Chris Plumb said:

Chesters - think the author of that WAS a Brit...

 

C.

Theres an author of the same name born in ohio but hes a bit dead and probably dead before trump became a problem so i bow to your suggestion hes a brit ,must google more!

[Phone]

KEN,

sharp as a tack - I love how quickly you Brits pick these things up

Phone