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Why the Brits loathe Trump... - Marc Mensa - 02-14-2019 08:57 AM
Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
Nate White, a witty writer from England wrote the perfect 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 ****.
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.”
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - appst89 - 02-14-2019 09:04 AM
TDS is not limited to just the US.
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - Eagleaidaholic - 02-14-2019 09:06 AM
So. We elected the right person. I'm sure Trump will give them a few more reasons.
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - EverRespect - 02-14-2019 09:09 AM
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RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - MemTigers1998 - 02-14-2019 09:12 AM
Pretty sure we quit caring what the Brits think back in 1776
Why the Brits loathe Trump... - JMUDunk - 02-14-2019 09:15 AM
As I casually said to my very good Brit friends who’s son I coached for nearly a decade, as he was deciding between college at William and Mary or James Madison Univ.
“Just remind him that we fought a pretty big war to get away from those people”.
Yea, he picked JMU.
Just read the “plucky” insults from this guy. He doesn’t get the American culture, he wouldn’t last a weekend outside of some megalopolis city, and it would KILL him as to how fair, kind and caring 98.7% of people would be if he wandered any further than the sidewalk of his upper east side flat.
You don’t like it? Stay home limey
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - NIU007 - 02-14-2019 09:15 AM
I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - BadgerMJ - 02-14-2019 09:15 AM
We stopped worrying about what the Brits think about our government & it's leaders around 1776.
Besides with BREXIT going on, they should me more concerned about their OWN leadership......
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - bullet - 02-14-2019 09:16 AM
(02-14-2019 09:04 AM)appst89 Wrote: TDS is not limited to just the US.
Really. Other than the class, charm and coolness, he described all the things Obama lacked. Humility????
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - BadgerMJ - 02-14-2019 09:18 AM
(02-14-2019 09:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote: I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
Might have something to do with him not letting us be treated like doormats by Europe anymore......
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - NIU007 - 02-14-2019 09:23 AM
(02-14-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:(02-14-2019 09:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote: I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
Might have something to do with him not letting us be treated like doormats by Europe anymore......
No, I think it's because of what kind of person he is. Just as described in the OP.
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - stinkfist - 02-14-2019 09:24 AM
(02-14-2019 09:23 AM)NIU007 Wrote:(02-14-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:(02-14-2019 09:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote: I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
Might have something to do with him not letting us be treated like doormats by Europe anymore......
No, I think it's because of what kind of person he is. Just as described in the OP.
those dayum widdle webbed feewins....
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - BadgerMJ - 02-14-2019 09:51 AM
(02-14-2019 09:23 AM)NIU007 Wrote:(02-14-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:(02-14-2019 09:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote: I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
Might have something to do with him not letting us be treated like doormats by Europe anymore......
No, I think it's because of what kind of person he is. Just as described in the OP.
Good to know Europe is in such great shape they have time to be concerned about Trump not being "nice" to them.
As an American, I'd rather have a President who's unpopular but concerns himself with THIS country instead of a bowing doofus on an apology tour who is "liked".
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - SuperFlyBCat - 02-14-2019 09:53 AM
OMG I hope European people like us over here, says typical American libs all of the time. LOL pathetic.
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - VA49er - 02-14-2019 09:53 AM
(02-14-2019 09:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote: I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
That is not a bad thing.
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - SuperFlyBCat - 02-14-2019 10:01 AM
(02-14-2019 09:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote: I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
Europeans are fed up with illegal immigration from Africa, refugees and the overall immigration policies that their governments have forced upon them for a very long time.
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - NIU007 - 02-14-2019 10:05 AM
(02-14-2019 10:01 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:(02-14-2019 09:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote: I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
Europeans are fed up with illegal immigration from Africa, refugees and the overall immigration policies that their governments have forced upon them for a very long time.
And yet none of them have elected anybody like Trump. They all act like actual adults.
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - VA49er - 02-14-2019 10:10 AM
(02-14-2019 10:05 AM)NIU007 Wrote:(02-14-2019 10:01 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:(02-14-2019 09:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote: I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
Europeans are fed up with illegal immigration from Africa, refugees and the overall immigration policies that their governments have forced upon them for a very long time.
And yet none of them have elected anybody like Trump. They all act like actual adults.
You sure about that?
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - Marc Mensa - 02-14-2019 10:11 AM
I see no one is challenging the scathing description of Trump, which is pretty much spot on. Instead, Trumpophiles fall back to 1776 banter and braggadocio.
Looks like the arrow hit the mark.
RE: Why the Brits loathe Trump... - NIU007 - 02-14-2019 10:16 AM
(02-14-2019 10:10 AM)VA49er Wrote:(02-14-2019 10:05 AM)NIU007 Wrote:(02-14-2019 10:01 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:(02-14-2019 09:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote: I'm sure Trump isn't popular in most or all of Europe.
Europeans are fed up with illegal immigration from Africa, refugees and the overall immigration policies that their governments have forced upon them for a very long time.
And yet none of them have elected anybody like Trump. They all act like actual adults.
You sure about that?
You mean somebody else elected a humorless, narcissistic, childish, pathologically-lying, egotistical president completely lacking in empathy?