“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”(perfectly sums up Trump)

[OILERMAN]

Nate White, a witty writer from England wrote the perfect 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 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.”

[IsntLifeFunny]

One of my good friends, an Englishman, Stryder, told me just tonight how much of an abomination the man is and what it symbolizes to the world. The guy is a top 100 bartender in the world as well as a top DJ, goes by DJ Storm Trooper. He’s traveled the world likely more than anyone on this board. Everything he said strangely backs this article to a T. 

[IsntLifeFunny]

14 minutes ago, heyitsmeallen said:

 

You know SNL killed it last night when the retard in chief is butthurt and tweeting about it first thing in the morning. 

 

 

I’m not sure of a more perfect illustration. 

[heyitsmeallen]

He nailed it. 

[IsntLifeFunny]

Just now, heyitsmeallen said:

He nailed it. 

The strange part of where our country sits is the fact everyone who recognizes this also recognizes the fact that 3.5 out of every 10 supports it. 

[IsntLifeFunny]

9 minutes ago, IsntLifeFunny said:

One of my good friends, an Englishman, Stryder, told me just tonight how much of an abomination the man is and what it symbolizes to the world. The guy is a top 100 bartender in the world as well as a top DJ, goes by DJ Storm Trooper. He’s traveled the world likely more than anyone on this board. Everything he said strangely backs this article to a T. 

Just to add onto this for a second: he was blasted last night so there was no filter and all truth. His sensibilities, even as a top bartender who pulls a ton of girls from all over the world, was still disgusted. Think about that for a second. Ole boy is out banging chicks on a global scale and has literally no time for politics...yet he went off on the matter for about two minutes saying basically these exact words. Funny how life works that you posted this the next morning. I just let him have at it. 

[heyitsmeallen]

Just now, IsntLifeFunny said:

The strange part of where our country sits is the fact everyone who recognizes this also recognizes the fact that 3.5 out of every 10 supports it. 

It’s a weird time indeed. I was talking to a friend of mine about this recently. Also the fact that social media seems like a bigger cesspool than it was pre-2016. These people always had these feelings. They were always racist, they were always ignorant, they were always sexist, they were always the type of American that gets off when their party “wins”. Whether or not that “win” actually hurts them personally. They just didn’t expose it openly to the world. Trump has just made them feel like those behaviors are acceptable to project in the public now because that’s how he acts.

[IsntLifeFunny]

4 minutes ago, heyitsmeallen said:

It’s a weird time indeed. I was talking to a friend of mine about this recently. Also the fact that social media seems like a bigger cesspool than it was pre-2016. These people always had these feelings. They were always racist, they were always ignorant, they were always sexist, they were always the type of American that gets off when their party “wins”. Whether or not that “win” actually hurts them personally. They just didn’t expose it openly to the world. Trump has just made them feel like those behaviors are acceptable to project in the public now because that’s how he acts.

It’s an amalgamation of the conspiracy theorists with a ton of white people who feel left behind to go along with innate bias and prejudice being inflamed by the racists. I quoted it the other day: “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

 

Johnson was an intelligent man though and knew what he was saying. Trump is a puppet imo whose strings are being pulled by men much smarter than him. 

[heyitsmeallen]

1 minute ago, IsntLifeFunny said:

It’s an amalgamation of the conspiracy theorists with a ton of white people who feel left behind to go along with innate bias and prejudice being inflamed by the racists. I quoted it the other day: “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

 

Johnson was an intelligent man though and knew what he was saying. Trump is a puppet imo whose strings are being pulled by men much smarter than him. 

Trump is absolutely a puppet. This whole gov shutdown and now “national emergency” for the Wall is nothing more than political posturing for 2020. Trump knows the Republicans don’t want him to get the wall either. They know it’s a big waste of money or else it would have been funded in his first 2 years while they ran the entire gov. They waited until Dems had some control, so they could act like they tried going into 2020 and hope to still win by promising the wall after “they get control of Congress back”. Then we will rinse and repeat this whole process. 

[9 Nines]

This is what puzzles me - what is wrong with his supporters:

 

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.

Edited February 17, 2019 by 9 Nines

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[begooode]

39 minutes ago, 9 Nines said:

This is what puzzles me - what is wrong with his supporters:

They realize they look like shit so they ignore it and instead attack the messenger (it’s anti-Trump bias, derp) or deflect. History will be written and it will not be kind. But most of all, it should not be ignored for future generations. 

[IsntLifeFunny]

No, he’s just an idiot. It’s in plain sight. 

[OILERMAN]

It's def bigotry and racism driving Trump support. Everyone sees he's a criminal, idiot, clueless on governance and a terrible deal maker. What he's real about is speaking out against minorities and blaming them for people's problems. 

 

Then you have people like Ann Coulter who actually wanted a real wall from sea to sea and she's pissed and sees the current bullshit his supporters are falling for. 

[OILERMAN]