Brilliant, simply Brilliant ...

[dizzojay]

My cousin shared something on Facebook the other day about Trump.  And although I try not to pollute my social media with mentions of the orange one very often (I mean, I can hardly talk, look at our twat of a Prime Minister now), this is simply spot-on and brilliant and needs to be enjoyed by as many people as possible!

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"

"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

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

I've seen this before, it perfectly sums up why British people - and probably most of the rest of the world! - despise the Orange Turd. And this is so true...
"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."

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I just thought this was brilliantly written. I think I read it three times on the bounce because it summed up everything I think only beautifully observed and worded!

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Yes, he says exactly what I think but much more eloquently!

[christalin80.livejournal.com]

As an American this is so spot on it's scary. I hate what the Orange Cheeto has done to the country. Calling him an embarrassment isn't even close to being a good description, he opens his mouth and I have no words.

smdh

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I try to keep away fron the politics as I'm not an American (I'm from the UK, and we've got our own problems with narrow-minded idiots here), so technically it's none of my business, but I'm still a human being; I can hate the way he (and his cronies) treat women and non-white people, oppose social health care and brazenly ignore the gun crisis. Of course, being a climate denier, he also enhangers wildlife and pollutes the planet - another reason to despise him, simply as a fellow inhabitant of Earth!

[christalin80.livejournal.com]

So very true.