Trumpathetic
By Akhilleus
How tone deaf is Donald Trump? Pools of blood were still coagulating on the Pulse nightclub dance floor and all Trump could do was congratulate himself for being right about Muslims. Not a word of kindness or concern for the dead; it's all about Trump.
Then yesterday, as Britain voted for the modern nation-state version of suicide and markets across Europe collapsed, all he could do, while halting his presidential campaign to fly off to Scotland to oversee the pitiful grand opening (a tiny crowd of paid staff and hundreds of protesters screaming at him from afar) of his latest ego project, was to rub his hands in glee about all the money he'll make now that the pound had fallen off a cliff.
He did take a moment to congratulate himself again on being right about Brexit, a term he didn't even recognize a couple of weeks ago (news that doesn't have the word TRUMP attached to it, doesn't make his morning "briefing", prepared by his cute 27 year old press secretary), tweeting that people were going crazy in Scotland to be free of the EU so they could "take back their country!". Well, er....no. They weren't. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU. Wrong again, Donald, but no matter, in TrumpWorld, it's all good.
Like Dick Cheney's ludicrous prediction that the Iraqis would welcome an invading force with flowers and open arms (still waiting for those flowers 13 years later, Dick...), Trump still maintains that the Scots love him! They can't get enough of Trump. But, er...no. That's wrong too. The Scotsman, "Scotland's National Newspaper" declared that "It’s hard to think of a less sympathetic character in the eyes of most Scots. Despite all his tartanry and trumpeting of heritage, The Donald is almost the anti-Scot personified. Left and right, unionist and nationalist, man and woman, young and old – it takes quite a lot to unite the people of this notoriously fractious little country in a collective shudder. But Donald Trump effortlessly manages to strike the wrong note in just about everything he does."
But in Donald's eyes, as always, he's a hero.
And so far, we've seen what to expect should he win in November, a president whose only concern during a time of crisis is "How can I benefit from this? How much money can I make during this terrible time?"
Very presidential.
Reader Comments (1)
When one looks back––and it's always good to do that––we have from April, 2014, a portrait of a man who would be King that was giving us the impression that "tone deaf" wasn't the only thing that was playing havoc in the mind of a man that today in Scotland paid for bagpipes to sound out his music of discontent along with great flourishes of pure asininity given while standing on a golf course that nobody wants.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/23/1294078/-Donald-Trump-Complains-Abo
Walk like a man, my ass.