What is Donald Trump's Greatest Failure? (Page 15) Campion: It just came to me that Donald Trump's greatest failing is that he is totally unaware of his own limitations  KeithJ: yeah he said once he was a genius but i am afraid he isn't by far ,,he is out of touch with the common people besides his crude way of speaking  kittybobo34: What's odd, is that he only talks to his core constituents, Doesn't even try to be empathic with the rest of the political spectrum Campion: Keith --- I agree that he is no genius but he is not unintelligent --- two of his failings are 1. his very poor education (right across the board) and 2. his reluctance to read or even take advice ---- I won't get into his personal and moral failings KeithJ: Pence is just as bad but without the mouth ,,I was from Indiana pence is a fake so called christian too.  Sir Loin: Scotland has given us a wonderful word to describe Dump... Cockwomble Thankyou Scotland, it's perfect!  MJ59: Someone on 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. Sir Loin: Beaver I guess Kiwis are basically British in how we think. You've summed the cockwomble up perfectly kittybobo34: If he loses this election, he will be subject to all the law suits against him, like the college scams, and his business dealings where he welched on debts. I imagine the government investigations will no longer be stymied from seeing the real evidence as well. kittybobo34: PS... I think one of the reasons he is so determined to run, it will push all his previous crimes beyond the Statute of Limitations, (7 years) so he would be free. kittybobo34: Now we will hear what has really been going on in the Whitehouse. Via Boltan's book. He called Trump the most inept person he has ever seen. | Politics Chat Room 73 People Chatting Similar Conversations |
