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26. Nate White is a London copywriter. He answered a Quora question on February 12, 2019 with the reply the OP shows.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 08:33 PM
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Here is the earliest link I could find to another site that highlights White's answer (it was posted less than a month after White's Quora answer went up):

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read

March 8, 2019 ~ THE HOBBLEDEHOY

https://thehobbledehoy.com/2019/03/08/british-writer-pens-the-best-description-of-trump-ive-read/



Someone on the question-and-answer website Quora asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind.

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.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

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.

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 don’t 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, it’s 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.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
‘My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

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2 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

This never ages malaise Sep 2025 #1
I think Mr. White authored that piece years ago. John1956PA Sep 2025 #2
Yes InstantGratification Sep 2025 #4
Anybody got a link? calimary Sep 2025 #8
There's no direct link to Nate White's original write-up on Quora, Feb. 12, 2019. Quora later took it down. ancianita Sep 2025 #13
First time I've seen it that I can remember, if the same person had to write it now Eliot Rosewater Sep 2025 #19
Totally agree. ancianita Sep 2025 #21
Nate White is a London copywriter. He answered a Quora question on February 12, 2019 with the reply the OP shows. Celerity Sep 2025 #26
"Mr. Obama, was generously endowed" JoseBalow Sep 2025 #3
Snicker hibbing Sep 2025 #18
My problem with Mr. White is he's much too nice, regarding Donald Trump. chouchou Sep 2025 #5
"Yes, he seems like my kind of guy" is a source of confusion and great distress to the British. progressoid Sep 2025 #6
Yes, it most certainly is. 3catwoman3 Sep 2025 #20
This goes back to its first run for prez, and never grows old Hekate Sep 2025 #7
It may be old but it's still as new as tiny, newly-sprouting weeds. calimary Sep 2025 #9
See Post 26 (White posted it on February 12, 2019) Celerity Sep 2025 #28
Excellent analysis of the orange felon Grim Chieftain Sep 2025 #10
Well, that sums it up nicely ashredux Sep 2025 #11
Goddamn right. Krasnov is an ignoramus. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #12
"He's more of a big white slug, a privileged Jabba the Hutt" Ray Bruns Sep 2025 #14
"There have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of evil people too.... FakeNoose Sep 2025 #15
Wow. Endlessmike56 Sep 2025 #16
Thanks for sharing. If it is actually that old, it is uncanny how accurate and prescient it is blue_jay Sep 2025 #17
Great Britain is having nativist problems right now wolfie001 Sep 2025 #22
English wit is razor sharp thought crime Sep 2025 #23
"Picasso of pettiness," Butterflylady Sep 2025 #24
K&R spanone Sep 2025 #25
Absolutely perfect of what the orange piece of shit is.....to perfection. a kennedy Sep 2025 #27
"He has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility..." it's no wonder that he decided to become an asshole. Ping Tung Sep 2025 #29
No more needs to be said. kacekwl Sep 2025 #30
K and r KentuckyWoman Sep 2025 #31
The guy has around a 3 percent approval rating in MW67 Sep 2025 #32
Wish I had an answer Blue Owl Sep 2025 #33
This caught my eye... kentuck Sep 2025 #34
Spot On Chicagogrl1 Sep 2025 #35
So perfectly stated, "a Picasso of pettiness, a Shakespeare of shit." nt ShazamIam Sep 2025 #36
May be an optimistic statement: RVN VET71 Sep 2025 #37
Beautifully stated! Eliot Rosewater Sep 2025 #40
Dump trump Johnnie Mae Sep 2025 #38
Best description of Krasnov I've ever read. GoodRaisin Sep 2025 #39
An excellent analysis of one who truly B.See Sep 2025 #41
100% Mr.Bee Sep 2025 #42
Simply marvelous description of TSF's personality characteristics. n/t iluvtennis Sep 2025 #43
...boxed set! 🤣lol! Hope22 Sep 2025 #44
This one sentence floored me in it's accuracy: DeeDeeNY Sep 2025 #45
And WE, as a country elected this freak sdfernando Sep 2025 #46
Bookmarked. Iggo Sep 2025 #47
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