The problem with Donald Trump....

* Allira* I love that image of Mr Trump as Violet Elizabeth: thank you !

Iam64

Accepting the USA voted for Trump isn’t denied but that doesn’t mean we ‘get over it’.

The Tate brothers are reported to have left Romania for America in a private jet earlier today. Imagine, a world leader actively enabling dangerous men like them, encouraging them to visit/live in the country they are responsible for

Do we know for sure that Trump enabled their release?

I mean, it wouldn't surprise me - since Trump was inaugurated, just about anything's possible. But I'm becoming wary (not weary!) about what I read and, in this current political climate, want to make sure I'm sticking to facts.

Maybe First Buddy will be pleased to see / meet them - he allegedly said that Andrew Tate would make a good British Prime Minister so appears to think highly of him - alongside Tommy Robinson.

(What is it with this meddlesome fool Musk and his apparent obsession with our government and political-system which, judging from some of his observations, he clearly doesn't understand?)

Anyway, back to the Tates.

Andrew Tate says women belong in the home, can’t drive, and are a man’s property.

He also thinks rape victims must “bear responsibility” for their attacks and dates women aged 18–19 because he can “make an imprint” on them, according to videos posted online.

In other clips, the British-American kickboxer – who poses with fast cars, guns and portrays himself as a cigar-smoking playboy – talks about hitting and choking women, trashing their belongings and stopping them from going out.

“It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up bitch,” he says in one video, acting out how he’d attack a woman if she accused him of cheating. In another, he describes throwing a woman’s things out of the window. In a third, he calls an ex-girlfriend who accused him of hitting her – an allegation he denies – a “dumb hoe”. (The Guardian reporting on video-clips of Tate)

He is, allegedly, admired by some hard-rightists - not to mention our own Nigel Farage who said he thinks he's a good role model for young men.

Is Tate the kind of individual who's gradually going to creep into the mainstream, where we're encouraged to "listen to what he's got to say" before we condemn him?

It's possible. I'm not accusing Trump of being a rapist, but he apparently did have a penchant for grabbing women by the nether-region (because he's rich and "they let you do that") - and millions of people voted for him - as his boast could be dismissed as locker-room talk. So he's gone full-mainstream.

Will they return to face the charges levelled against them - one does wonder.

Meanwhile, De Santis (Gov Florida) apparently didn't know they were arriving - no advance warning (he says) - and that "they are not welcome here".

I see the King has invited Trump through Starmer.

Feel free to take him on a tour of the Tower.

HousePlantQueen

This was written during Trump's previous period as POTUS, and I think it sums up, eloquently, just what it is that Brits ( and presumably other nationalities) dislike about him. It is worth a read.
Nate White
“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 snivelling 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 mostly 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.
#Donald Trump

After watching Trump talking to the Ukranian president last night and seeing him being such a bully, your post is even more apt.

That is spot on HousePlantQueen.