The best description of TFG ever!

[Bob Juch]

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 sniveling 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 most 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.

[flockofseagulls104]

But he sure knew how to get things done that benefitted the United States of America instead of Washington DC.

[silverscreenselect]

But he sure knew how to get things done that benefitted the United States of America instead of Washington DC.

Name one.

[BackInTex]

But he sure knew how to get things done that benefitted the United States of America instead of Washington DC.

Name one.

Kept Russia from invading any countries.

[flockofseagulls104]

But he sure knew how to get things done that benefitted the United States of America instead of Washington DC.

Name one.

Kept Russia from invading any countries.

He kept illegal immigration to A LITTLE less than 2 million a year.
He kept the inflation rate to a LITTLE less than 8.5%
He eliminated redundant and unnecessary regulation in order to produce a covid vaccine that the subsequent administration screwed up in administering.
His policies resulted in the highest employment rate for minorities ever seen.
He officially recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
He established the Abraham Accords which was a true start for peace in the Middle East, which the subsequent administration has all but abandoned and has sabotaged by re-engaging in talks with Iran.

I'm just scattershooting off the top of my head, but I could go on, stalker, but it's pissing in the wind with you. you will not acknowledge anything. It's against your religion.

[flockofseagulls104]

Name one.

Kept Russia from invading any countries.

He kept illegal immigration to A LITTLE less than 2 million a year.
He kept the inflation rate to a LITTLE less than 8.5%
He eliminated redundant and unnecessary regulation in order to produce a covid vaccine that the subsequent administration screwed up in administering.
His policies resulted in the highest employment rate for minorities ever seen.
He officially recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
He established the Abraham Accords which was a true start for peace in the Middle East, which the subsequent administration has all but abandoned and has sabotaged by re-engaging in talks with Iran.

I'm just scattershooting off the top of my head, but I could go on, stalker, but it's pissing in the wind with you. you will not acknowledge anything. It's against your religion.

You would be praising any democrat president to no end that was able to accomplish just the things I listed. (Well maybe not the immigration achievement.) But since it was a republican, these accomplishments don't count for anything in your mind. And since it was Donald Trump, these accomplishments are pure evil.

[BackInTex]

Kept Russia from invading any countries.

He kept illegal immigration to A LITTLE less than 2 million a year.
He kept the inflation rate to a LITTLE less than 8.5%
He eliminated redundant and unnecessary regulation in order to produce a covid vaccine that the subsequent administration screwed up in administering.
His policies resulted in the highest employment rate for minorities ever seen.
He officially recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
He established the Abraham Accords which was a true start for peace in the Middle East, which the subsequent administration has all but abandoned and has sabotaged by re-engaging in talks with Iran.

I'm just scattershooting off the top of my head, but I could go on, stalker, but it's pissing in the wind with you. you will not acknowledge anything. It's against your religion.

You would be praising any democrat president to no end that was able to accomplish just the things I listed. (Well maybe not the immigration achievement.) But since it was a republican, these accomplishments don't count for anything in your mind. And since it was Donald Trump, these accomplishments are pure evil.

Wow. This has been posted a while with no response. I wonder if the TDS Google site is down.

[Bob Juch]

But he sure knew how to get things done that benefitted the United States of America instead of Washington DC.

Name one.

Kept Russia from invading any countries.

If you don't count Syria.

[jarnon]

Name one.

Kept Russia from invading any countries.

If you don't count Syria.

Russia joined the Syria war in 2015, a year and a half after their first attack on Ukraine.

[BackInTex]

Name one.

Kept Russia from invading any countries.

If you don't count Syria.

You don’t know the definition of “invade”? SMH

Why would I count something that was not an invasion as an invasion? Or didn’t happen during the Trump administration?

Better stick to copy and paste. Your freelancing sucks.

[flockofseagulls104]

Kept Russia from invading any countries.

If you don't count Syria.

You don’t know the definition of “invade”? SMH

Why would I count something that was not an invasion as an invasion? Or didn’t happen during the Trump administration?

Better stick to copy and paste. Your freelancing sucks.

I've given him some good advice. He's better with pictures.

[Bob Juch]

Kept Russia from invading any countries.

If you don't count Syria.

You don’t know the definition of “invade”? SMH

Why would I count something that was not an invasion as an invasion? Or didn’t happen during the Trump administration?

Better stick to copy and paste. Your freelancing sucks.

I said if you don't count it. I didn't say you should.

While Russia doesn't have troops on the ground, they support Russian mercenaries.

[silverscreenselect]

He kept illegal immigration to A LITTLE less than 2 million a year. - WRONG.

The startling Census Bureau report found that net international migration into the United States increased by just 247,000 people in 2021, the lowest annual level for any year since at least 2010. That’s about half the number of people who came into the country between 2019 and 2020, during the Trump administration, when net international migration totaled 477,000. The 2021 figure was also far below the 1,049,000 who came into the U.S. between 2015 and 2016, the highest level for any year in that decade.

He kept the inflation rate to a LITTLE less than 8.5% - Inflation has increased under Biden but Trump didn't have the aftereffects of a pandemic to deal with.

He eliminated redundant and unnecessary regulation in order to produce a covid vaccine that the subsequent administration screwed up in administering.- Leaving aside the numerous factual misstatements about COVID that Trump made that were harmful and the fact that Pfizer developed its vaccine without taking "Operation Warp Speed" money, the main contribution the Trump administration made was providing funding for the vaccine. However, they had no plan in place for distribution of the vaccine, instead leaving it to the various states. Under Biden and despite heavy resistance in red states,


His policies resulted in the highest employment rate for minorities ever seen. - Unemployment rates for all demographics, including minorities, have been decreasing steadily over a decade. Trump continued that trend until the pandemic hit. But in the last year of his presidency, unemployment rates for black increased at a rate higher than the national average and stayed higher as other numbers started to tick down. It's only been since Biden took office that the black unemployment rated started to decrease significantly.

He officially recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. - I thought we said tangible accomplishments. How does this make the American people better?

He established the Abraham Accords which was a true start for peace in the Middle East, which the subsequent administration has all but abandoned and has sabotaged by re-engaging in talks with Iran. - The Abraham Accords sound good and it's nice to know that Israel won't be going to war with the UAE and Bahrain any time soon, but they haven't accomplished very much. Trying to repair the damage Trump did by scrapping our Iran treaty is a higher concern for our national safety.