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PCIntern

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Fri Aug 24, 2018, 08:45 PM Aug 2018

I've spent a lifetime reading fictional novels, classical and popular, [View all]

and many of those books and novellas concerned villains of all stripes: dictators, elected officials, generals, mad scientists, aliens, Nazis, criminals, sociopaths, serial killers, perverts, spouses and other family members...you get the idea.

But I have to say that no literary genius ever conceived of a villain like Donald Trump. Brazen lying compounded with full-bore criminality, utter sociopathic lack of empathy, vacuous stupidity, druggy dementia, hypersexuality channeled horrendously and dangerously and indiscriminately, ugly physically in every respect, incestuous verbal behavior coupled with suspicious physical actions with his child, transcendentally grotesque sense of entitlement and false braggadocio, academic failures propped up by a combination of nepotism and falsehoods allowed to be promulgated by the Establishment, poor dressing habits with outlandishly ill-fitting suits and peculiar tie which may be a doppelganger for his genitalia in his mind, and last but not least, an utter stupidity compunded by his hatred and denigration for anything which is not representative of him personally or his so-called "business world" which is and was a stupendous series of lies of staggering proportion culminating in multiple bankruptcies, complete loss of creditworthiness, and reliance upon foreign money which has given rise to seditious, treasonous behavior the likes of which have never ever been witnessed in this country or any other in the history of the world.

No one has ever created such a character: most are one, two or three-dimensional at best...this man is worthy of a scientist like Albert Einstein,Richard Feynman or Isaac Newton to describe mathematically. That is why most cannot fathom his evil...it is too encompassing and complex for routine description or analysis.

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Maybe a stupider version of Baron Harkonnen from "Dune"? The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #1
It's because one of the first rules of creating literary characters is that there has to be diva77 Aug 2018 #2
And relatively believable. dchill Aug 2018 #4
You might try "Tropic of Kansas" by Chris Brown catrose Aug 2018 #3
At one point I thought the vanity and stupidity was on par with MaryMagdaline Aug 2018 #5
It's Shakespearean tragicomedy. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #6
In that eventually the whole damn family goes down & Dad is left madly howling on a blasted heath Hekate Aug 2018 #14
*Wow* for your post, but SHITLER ain't that big a deal. UTUSN Aug 2018 #7
Seems like a typical dumb greedy rich guy to me oberliner Aug 2018 #8
How about Zap Brannigan? pecosbob Aug 2018 #9
Zap isn't that evil Monty Burns seems about right. mucifer Aug 2018 #26
Whew! I had to take a breath at each comma. OxQQme Aug 2018 #10
I JUST posted almost exactly the SAME point in other words (although less eloquently), and... bellmartin Aug 2018 #11
A friend of mine just posted in response to an article in the Atlantic MaryMagdaline Aug 2018 #12
Don't hold yourself back; tell us how you reall feel! Tell you what, though... Hekate Aug 2018 #13
Count Olaf, Series of Unfortunate Events? Nt lostnfound Aug 2018 #15
Nothing likeable about Lord Voldemort tavernier Aug 2018 #16
Exactly, I keep coming to him and rejecting the comparison bellmartin Aug 2018 #19
Vulgarmort ProfessorPlum Aug 2018 #39
You have a way with words. Develop this and submit it to a top newspaper as op-ed. Le Gaucher Aug 2018 #17
I've actually thought about it... PCIntern Aug 2018 #18
So well described. BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2018 #20
That's very insightful... PCIntern Aug 2018 #21
Thanks! BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2018 #25
I completely relate Blanche! smirkymonkey Aug 2018 #22
Hi smirky! Iv been in lurk mode lately, BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2018 #24
Good to see you! smirkymonkey Aug 2018 #28
Snarf! Yes! bwaHAAA! Why, yes indeed, BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2018 #32
He is a piece of shit from Satan's toilet dalton99a Aug 2018 #23
My writing critique group now starts every session with bitch session about Trump CrispyQ Aug 2018 #27
Or, the headline... wryter2000 Aug 2018 #31
Shakespeare could have managed to do him justice... First Speaker Aug 2018 #29
Shakespeare's Macbeth.. Cha Aug 2018 #44
H.P. Lovecraft would have been able to pull it off. Dave Starsky Aug 2018 #46
This reads like Dennis Miller's fantasy version of The Aristocrats joke... colinmom71 Aug 2018 #30
🤣 BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2018 #33
That's funny...thanks! nt PCIntern Aug 2018 #35
Flashman Cartoonist Aug 2018 #34
As the Saying Goes, "Truth is Stranger then Fiction" dlk Aug 2018 #36
He's also a "poor pitiful me" type: "Unfair. "Sad." "Not nice to me." VOX Aug 2018 #37
Best description of him I've read yet. llmart Aug 2018 #38
kick n/t blitzen Aug 2018 #40
You are going to see a plethora of Trump like villains in future novels. Kablooie Aug 2018 #41
I always thought that he and his "presidency" would have made a good subject for a Vonnegut novel. Crunchy Frog Aug 2018 #42
Bravo, PCIntern.. you've described his Cha Aug 2018 #43
Even Stephen King said he would never have conceived of Trump. Dave Starsky Aug 2018 #45
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