London Daily: "British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I've Read"

[Pluvious]

Nate White was Dead on (even back then); across a whole spectrum of salient points...

... 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.

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Sooo much more...
https://londondaily.com/british-writer-pens-the-best-description-of-trump-i-ve-read

Edit to add: ( I just realized it's from 2020 originally ) - It's just getting more exposure, as it should lol !!

[lindysalsagal]

1. "He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege."

"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. "

[BeyondGeography]

2. "But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid."

[central scrutinizer]

3. Never gets old

Been posted on DU many times before, still relevant

[Pluvious]

5. Thanks Scrutney :)

Music, is the Best

[pat_k]

4. Spot on!

What is perhaps so hard to fathom is that this man with no humor, depth, inner world, or soul looks in the mirror and declares himself brilliant and witty.

There is a monstrousness to it that is difficult to articulate. Nate Whit captures that.

[Faux pas]

6. K N R