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Until very recently, I felt that one foreigner, a journalist from New Zealand, had nailed the essence of Donald Trump better than any other description that I had heard of. That would be Paul Thomas of the New Zealand Herald and here is what he said back in 2015, well before Trump's rise to the presidency was a reality, and looked anything but a foregone conclusion:
“Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America: casual racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandizement, vulgarity on an epic scale. He is the Ugly American in excelsis.”
Since first encountering it some time in 2015, that was, without a doubt, the best description that I had heard about Donald Trump.
But that changed this weekend, when I read something that a British writer said about Trump. Yes, Nate White had a most hilarious response to the question, "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
It goes on, and is fairly lengthy. It is not a quick two or three line read, like that quote from Thomas. But here are some short quotes of White's description of Trump (my personal favorite, that Trump is a "Jabba the Hut of privilege," was something that I already used in the title of this particular blog entry):
"He is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit."
Yup. And here's White describing how the British cannot appreciate what passes as Trump's humour (had to use the British spelling):
"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."
White goes on:
"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."
Pretty much right on target, eh?
Since then, I have found a few other things that further define the essence of Donald Trump, and what he is all about and represents.
This one was very good, and was one of the best and most memorable descriptions encompassing all that Trump really amounts to when you strip away his support:
Cheri Jacobus Verified account @CheriJacobus Follow Follow @CheriJacobus More Trump a poor person's idea of what a rich person is, dumb person's idea of what smart person is, weak person's idea of what strong person is 4:11 PM - 29 Jun 2017
Daniel Dale Verified account @ddale8 Follow Follow @ddale8 More Things the president called people and entities before 8 AM today:
- Joe Scarborough "Psycho" and "Angry, Dumb and Sick"
- Democrats "totally insane"
- New York Times "Fake News" and "Enemy of the People"
- Paul Krugman "stupid" - Twitter "very discriminatory"
5:07 AM - 23 Apr 2019
This was one of the responses, and it made some headlines:
Juliet Wentworth @julietwentworth
Replying to @ddale8
Psychological projection is a defence mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.
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