17-01-2017, 17:53
Gore Vidal once said America should have two Presidents: an acting President and the real President. He thought Reagan got the presidency because he was the best actor available.
This time instead of an actor America has elected a work of art. Trump is like Salvador Dali, permanently creating himself and he doesn't seem to mind (or notice) if his creation is totally inconsistent. His solutions to problems are genuinely surreal - miniature Mexicans trying to scale a giant stars-and-stripes wall. The surrealists embraced childish creativity and Trump has that in spades.
Unlike Grayson Perry, who has an alter ego and a teddy bear called Measles, Donald Trump has physically shape-shifted throughout his life and is mentally continuing that process. It's no use asking whether he's a Hawk or a Dove - he's a Dork. He wanted to be President. He wanted the applause. He wants to be loved. Stop giving him things to think about, keep him away from the news as much as possible, but don't impeach him - we'd get Pence and I get the impression he really believes this crap, a kind of unstoppable Trump-devised IED that no one could disarm, or even charm.
Trump's hair isn't an irrelevance. It tells us all we need to know.
This time instead of an actor America has elected a work of art. Trump is like Salvador Dali, permanently creating himself and he doesn't seem to mind (or notice) if his creation is totally inconsistent. His solutions to problems are genuinely surreal - miniature Mexicans trying to scale a giant stars-and-stripes wall. The surrealists embraced childish creativity and Trump has that in spades.
Unlike Grayson Perry, who has an alter ego and a teddy bear called Measles, Donald Trump has physically shape-shifted throughout his life and is mentally continuing that process. It's no use asking whether he's a Hawk or a Dove - he's a Dork. He wanted to be President. He wanted the applause. He wants to be loved. Stop giving him things to think about, keep him away from the news as much as possible, but don't impeach him - we'd get Pence and I get the impression he really believes this crap, a kind of unstoppable Trump-devised IED that no one could disarm, or even charm.
Trump's hair isn't an irrelevance. It tells us all we need to know.
That is part of the paradox re the USA and why/how a significant part of the voting population voted for this billionaire businessman in the first place! Absolutely bizarre and naive!
