SOME MORE THOUGHTS ON TRUMP
In some ways I’m fascinated by this guy. I don’t like, him;
I don’t trust him, but I suspect he’s not as stupid as he appears. Mind you, I’m not saying he’s intelligent
either.
We have to understand that he is a salesman and a businessman.
He will say anything to shift the product, and he’s pretty good at it. But at
bottom, he doesn’t have any. That is, he does not have any strong beliefs or
values (not many anyway), and will blow with the wind if he needs to. That is
both a strength and a weakness of course.
He has already shifted his position since winning the
election (well, the electoral college, apparently Hilary’s lead in the popular
vote is now over 2 million). Now he says that there may be some connection
between global warming and human activity. Well, that’s a start. Obviously he
now has to talk to some people who actually know what they are talking about.
It’s one thing to spout nonsense on the hustings, but another when you are
talking to the heads of major scientific and medical institutions. They might
start contradicting you.
Oh, and he isn’t going to prosecute Hilary after all, in
fact he really likes the Clintons, honestly.
Oh, and he’s going to keep quite a lot of Obamacare, I mean
he didn’t really understand it before he had that chat with Obama, and learnt a
few things about reality.
Oh, and he isn’t going to build a wall after all, I mean did
anyone take that seriously?
Oh, and he now supports the electoral college; he thinks
it’s great. Before the election he thought it was ‘a disaster for democracy’.
See how quickly he can change his mind, flexible or what?
In fact, on almost any issue you can find videos online of
him contradicting himself. ‘I’m very pro life’, and also ‘I’m very pro
choice’. ‘I was the only one against
invading Iraq’, then ‘Are you for invading Iraq - yes, I guess so’. See what
he’s doing here; he’s saying whatever he thinks you want to hear. It’s an old
trick, but successful none the less. In fact, some people on line say that the
best person to contradict Trump is himself.
But on the whole I think it’s a good thing that he is
distancing himself from some of his most ridiculous utterings, and he is
appointing some good people to his team. Mind you, some are very dubious. It’s
not good when your team includes people who don’t believe in climate change or
evolution.
Of course all this does not decry the fact that most of the
rest of the world thinks that the U.S. has taken leave of its senses. Their
position as leaders of the free world is hard to take seriously when they elect
a president who is halfway between a crook and a clown.
On the other hand, as Werner Herzog pointed out on Kermode
and Mayo last week, most people though Ronald Reagan was a bit of a clown when
he was elected. But then, as Werner also pointed out, he had been governor of
California, so he knew a little bit about politics. Whereas Donald knows zilch.
Hey ho, give him four years then can we please get back to reality as opposed
to reality television.
Oh, and by the way, is it just coincidence that there is this definition in the OED:
b. To give forth a trumpet-like sound; spec. to break wind audibly (slang or vulgar)
Oh, and by the way, is it just coincidence that there is this definition in the OED:
b. To give forth a trumpet-like sound; spec. to break wind audibly (slang or vulgar)
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