Errol Horwitz, Cape Town
His followers, embedded with the intellectual level of a can of sardines, are intoxicated by his incendiary language, as they see him as the saviour of America’s forgotten men and women.
The forgotten are angry white voters who from day one refused to accept Barack Obama, a black man, as president of the United States.
Trump understood the raw emotions of his followers and used a litany of linguistic contrivances to exploit their prejudices to the fullest. One merely has to look back on his campaign of relentless deception, to undermine the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president.
Was it the cynical start of his campaign for president to curry favour with the missing white voters from elections in 2008 and 2012? As far as his followers are concerned, Trump can do no wrong, despite his blatant anti-truth-telling shrouded in a mix of repetitive short sentences, characterised by empty adverbs and adjectives.
Trump comes across as spiteful, vengeful, arrogant, boastful, naive, and a serial prevaricator. He doesn’t fit the mould of a normal president – what you see is what you get. Since the presidential election, the majority of the American electorate believe Trump is bad for America – a colossal case of buyer’s remorse. And with each passing day, he is proving to be unfit for the job.
There are signs that Trump’s presidency is in trouble. A case in point is the FBI’s criminal investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to derail Hillary Clinton’s election. It is ongoing despite Trump’s bombshell in firing FBI Director James Comey.
The firing reeks of a cover-up reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s firing of Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal. Will Trump suffer the same fate as Nixon?
nat cheiman
May 20, 2017 at 12:23 pm
‘And yet, despite his diction, Trump is a billionaire.
The \”intellectual level of a can of sardines\” is inequitable, and compared to many Clinton supporters like Jackson, Farrahkan, and other black anti-Semites, it is perhaps more desirable to concur with the piscine variety who voted for THE DONALD.
Indeed, \”what you see is what you get \”, and this is preferable to the gobbledygook that previous presidents tend to ventilate, and whom, the masses, pretend to understand, particularly, the Democrats, many of whom are pseudo intellectuals who still prefer political correctness.
Trump is neither.
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Errol Horwitz
May 26, 2017 at 10:27 am
‘If one is willing, as Trump is, to exploit the system by evading payment to his creditors through litigious delaying tactics and bankruptcy to reach billionaire status, he takes his place among America’s infamous robber barons. Not difficult, even for an ignoramous of the likes of Trump bent on gaming the system. ‘