Sure, I admit it, Trump is not a textbook fascist, but he’s showing significant potential toward that target. Also, he has not risen to the prominence of dictator, not yet, but he’d like absolute power because he seems to enjoy suppressing opposition and crushing civil liberties. Nor has he checked all the boxes in grasping royal tyrant status, but, uh, woah, he must be tempted to reach out and place the crown of King of America on his dyed and coiffed pâte. Our man Trump is ambitious for certain, but let’s face it, too many democratic traditions and legal commandments stand in his way to absolute power, and he’ll never enjoy his longed-for coronation because, pardon the argot, he’s a tw*t! That’s right, you got that correctly, he’s a tw*t. According to ordinary Brits, calling someone a “tw*t” deems a person stupid, contemptable, foolish, and obnoxious, all adjectives which stick the landing atop Trump. Because the slur also connotes an anatomical and vulgar application here in America, it is far more offensive on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. Because he is vulgar and disgusting from every vantage point, it is reasonable to agree with Brits. Yes indeed, the insult’s associational meanings fall nicely into Trump’s bailiwick, for he enjoys crude name-calling and has penchants for embarrassing others. He loves disparaging people as if he alone is the judge of a person’s value. In fact, he seems to enjoy humiliating others. Perhaps is tries to compensate because he is a felon and has been convicted of sexual abuse, for which he was fined five million dollars. In a word, then, the term aptly applies to the clownish and loathsome President Donald Trump.
To underscore the particulars of Trump’s character, I quote Nate White who offers an assessment of Donald Trump, one you may have already read. He wrote, "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 honor and no grace—all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.”
While one may smile at the buffoonish character flaws Trump displays, 27 psychiatrists wrote about the dangers Trump presents to the world. One forensic psychiatrist among them even claimed: ‘Trump is now the most powerful head of state in the world, and one of the most impulsive, arrogant, ignorant, disorganized, chaotic, nihilistic, self-contradictory, self-important, and self-serving. He has his finger on the triggers of a thousand or more of the most powerful thermonuclear weapons in the world. That means he could kill more people in a few seconds than any dictator in past history has been able to kill during his entire years in power.’
Field R. Books: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President: Assessing Dangerousness. Br J Gen Pract. 2018 Oct;68(675):490. doi: 10.3399/bjgp18X699269. PMID: 30262624; PMCID: PMC6145972.
Considering Trump’s contrariness and impulsivity, not to mention his inclination to seek severe punishment, even death, to his enemies, everyone risks the consequences from one of his meltdowns.
Not all clowns are funny. One of them ought to scare us to death.