Shakespeare must've been acquainted with an ancestor of the Dotard.

[raccoon]

Either that or he had psychic abilities. Here he describe the Dotard’s ravings:

“...it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.”

[Mike 03]

1. The Shakespeare play that's been on my mind in reference to

Trump is King Lear. What's missing is his Cordelia.

[Walleye]

2. "That one may smile and smile, and be a villain "

[Aristus]

3. He sure did.

"Thou art a knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats, a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave, a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue, one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd in the way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deni'st the least syllable of thy addition."

King Lear, Act II, Scene 2, Lines 13-23.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Or maybe human nature hasn't changed much in....forever...nt

[Mme. Defarge]

5. Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3

“... an affectioned ass
that cons state without book and utters it by great swaths; the best persuaded of himself, so crammed,
as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his grounds
of faith that all that look on him love him."