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Related: About this forumThis Fits Him to a T - Parody of I'll Never Find Another You - Nate White & Don Caron - Parody Project
The lyrics for this song are based on an article about the Former Resident written by British journalist, Nate White. I pushed his prose around, added some words for rhyming purposes and did my best to turn it into a song lyric without intentionally damaging it.
The Original Essay by Nate White (shortened to fit into a Youtube description)
Full version here https://parodyproject.com/this-fits-him-to-a-t-nate-white-don-caron/
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.
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.
And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, its a fact. He doesnt 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 doesnt 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. Its all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we dont. 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.
Hes not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
Hes 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 dont 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, its 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.
LYRICS to "Fits Him to a T"
He has no class, no charm, no coolness,
No credibility, no compassion,
No wit, no warmth, no wisdom,
No subtlety, no sense of fashion
Hes forever trying to save face
Devoid of honor, devoid of grace
No sensitivity, no self-awareness,
No humility, no sense of humor
Always laughable, but never funny
With all the charm of a malignant tumor
Never laughs. Only crows and jeers.
Thinks its clever when he stokes the peoples fears.
Sure theres stupid people
and nasty people, too
But stupids never been this nasty
Nor has nasty been this stupid.
He likes to talk in witless insults
Making them up is a goal of his
Petty bigotry and knee-jerk nasty
demonstrating that he lost that soul of his
He has turned his artlessness into a form of art
His flaws have flaws completely off the chart
Hes neither plucky nor an underdog
Quite the opposite of all that
A white-slug privileged Jabba boy
Hes a bully and hes also fat
He lays his gross dysfunctions out for everyone to see.
And that is why this fits him to a T
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