You can read many UD entries exploring Trump-as-Ubu.
But with Trump’s latest comment about the Medal of Honor (“Everyone [who] gets the congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead.”), it occurs to UD that Trump is perhaps better understood through the character of Sir Walter Elliot, in Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion.
An appearances-obsessed snob, Elliot doesn’t like the idea of a naval officer renting his house (Elliot’s idiocy and greed have ruined him financially, so he must rent out his house and find someplace cheaper to live), because “it is the same with them all: they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once…”
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Update: ‘Asinine’ is good.
August 16th, 2024 at 3:34PM
Christ, what an asshole.
August 16th, 2024 at 4:20PM
Matt: The rightwing press is really twisting itself inside out to account for this person.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13751445/Trump-breakdown-insiders-tragic-reason-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html
August 16th, 2024 at 5:05PM
He’s just acting kind of like he does all the time. The PTSD thing is unpersuasive.
August 17th, 2024 at 7:24AM
Totally unpersuasive.