{"id":39863,"date":"2020-05-25T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39863"},"modified":"2020-05-26T01:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T08:12:27","slug":"from-across-the-pond-a-brit-writer-describes-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/25\/from-across-the-pond-a-brit-writer-describes-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"From Across the Pond — A Brit writer describes Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A hat tip to Ken W, in Michigan I think, who told me to look up this reference.<\/span> The author, a Brit to be sure, is so spot on that I felt compelled to share the short article. And to those who know me, a Canuck through and through, will know that many Canadians will share this view. There are many Americans that likely share this view too.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From<\/span> The HOBBLEDEHOY<\/strong><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone on Quora asked \u201cWhy do some British people not like Donald Trump?\u201d Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:<\/strong>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2013 all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump\u2019s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing \u2013 not once, ever. I don\u2019t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility \u2013 for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with Trump, it\u2019s a fact. He doesn\u2019t even seem to understand what a joke is \u2013 his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And scarily, he doesn\u2019t just talk in crude, witless insults \u2013 he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It\u2019s all surface. …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws \u2013 he would make a Trump.  …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I encourage you to read the remainder of this short article. There is a Star Wars comparison that is so graphic and so amusing. I hope you get some much needed levity from it. I also should say that this article was written 08 March 2019 so does not include any of Trump’s COVID-19 fiascos which would only make things worse.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A hat tip to Ken W, in Michigan I think, who told me to look up this reference. The author, a Brit to be sure, is so spot on that I felt compelled to share the short article. And to those who know me, a Canuck through and through, will know that many Canadians will […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3712],"class_list":["post-39863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}