Juxtapose him with Putin, Xi and Erdogan. That is, except when he is among bullies then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.Īnd worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the civilized: a bully. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. All my heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. I see it as having no inner world, no soul.Īnd I root for underdogs, traditionally I side with David, not Goliath. Some of us Americans, might see this as refreshingly upfront. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs he only crows or jeers.Īnd scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, an ignorant counterstatement or a casual act of cruelty. And that fact is particularly disturbing to me, sensibility – for me, to lack humor is almost inhuman.īut with Trump, it’s a fact. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. So for me, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Trump lacks certain qualities which I traditionally esteem.įor 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 honor and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Having stated that, someone, recently asked me, WHY DON’T YOU LIKE TRUMP?”Īlthough by no notional measure, I proclaim to pontificate over a jury of critics, I feel obliged to jot a few observations: I view myself as a moderate, an extinct species, by the virtue of the current divisions tugging away to be farther right or left to be considered real hip.

As this nation stands at the cross roads, the path it takes forward, will influence or perhaps even dictate, where the state of the union stands a generation from now.

Jabba the hutt sidekick