What Is 'Failson' Culture? Look No Further Than the Family Trump for the Answer

[riversedge]

I think JR trump is a spoiled brat-immature and cruel.

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What Is ‘Failson’ Culture? Look No Further Than the Family Trump for the Answer
IT NEVER ENDS

A “failson” is a son of wealth and privilege who is equal parts incompetence, stupidity, and arrogance. Sound like anybody you know?
Molly Jong-Fast Published Nov. 30, 2019 4:58AM ET



Donald Trump, Jr. cruised into the Thanksgiving weekend on the heels of an enormous literary triumph. His opus Triggered had spent two solid weeks on the top of The New York Times non-fiction best seller list. Junior’s run ended this week when he was knocked off by A Warning. But despite this displacement, Triggered represents a triumph for the young scribe, who has now accomplished something on his own. His father’s namesake is, finally, not a failson.

What’s a failson (pronounced exactly like it looks, just a combination of “fail” and “son”)? He is an upper- (or upper-middle) class incompetent who is protected by familial wealth from the consequences of his actions. The term seems to have been coined by one Will Menaker of the podcast Chapo Trap House, as documented in The New Yorker in this 2016 article.


One is not born a failson. Nor does one simply inherit the status of failson. No—failson status is earned through a display of equal parts incompetence, stupidity, and arrogance. And until his book, no person in America—or maybe even the world, so bursting at the seams with louche heirs and dissolute royals with no throne to sit their pampered arses on—illustrated all the facets of a failson better than Junior..............................

Don Jr. Went on ‘The View’ and It Was a Total Sh*tshow
OFF THE RAILS
Matt Wilstein

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. One could argue

that the orange menace is himself a ‘failson,’ with his most spectacular fail still in progress.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. They made the case for him...

in the article. Rich dad that made him, bailed him out of financial trouble, lousy businessman...etc.

[3catwoman3]

3. "Enormous literary triumph."

Maybe not.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Thanks to bulk purchases from the GOP

and probably other groups looking for favors. Most of these will probably sit in warehouses and probably given away as membership bonuses, etc. The leftovers will be available at "Dollar Tree" in the near future.

[Gumboot]

5. Lest we forget George W Bush.

Failed over and over again - and then became president.