The madness of King Trump, America's sulky George III sequel
He went mad and lost America. A conventional summary of King George III, the tragic figure who took on the colonies, sending in his troops to dominate the streets and crush resistance. Alas, the war of independence didnt end well, for George anyway. Defeated, bipolar, suffering frequent manic episodes, he retreated to Windsor Castle having nevertheless amassed an impressive library and a reputation for cultured intelligence.
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A couple of centuries and 45 presidents later, Old King Trump sits barricaded in the White House doing nothing much. His face puckered into that trademark rosebud of petulance. Barking at underlings. Pretending HE won because a lot of Democrat votes were from dead people and very illegal. His sulky-toddler folded arms, like that time he refused to say a single kind word when fellow Republican and war hero John McCain died. Theres something almost majestic about Trumps utter contempt for the office of president.
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King Trump is Georges sequel, the comedy version, his self-parody marching preposterously across Twitter like the mayor of Munchkinland. Maybe when he finally accepts defeat hell retreat to Mar-a-Lago. OK, theres no legacy library, but he has amassed an impressive $1bn in debts. Maybe Trump wont be remembered for his cultured intelligence, but he can memorise person, woman, man, camera, TV. George wouldnt even have understood what 40% of that list was, so whos the dumbass?
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Mad King Trump may not have conceded, but he seems to have lost all interest in anything presidential. Hes vaguely wondering if its worth bombing Iran, but mostly raging at the phantoms who stole his realm in a rigged election. William Thackeray wrote of George III: All history presents no sadder figure than that of the old man, blind and deprived of reason, wandering through the rooms of his palace, addressing imaginary parliaments, reviewing fancied troops, holding ghostly courts
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I wonder what the voices in Trumps head are advising now? Retreat to civilian life again, with its legal perils and authorized memoirs? Or fight on as a heavily-photoshopped rebel king determined to leave as much wreckage and misery in opposition as he did in power?
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