What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

This really ain't good for the rapist

I think the below was posted before. Apologies if so. But still, he needs to be repeated! My favourite is " he is a Shakespeare of sh!t"

Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrumpSubscribeNate White, a British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

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 ****. 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.”

Not a good idea to be a fly on the wall, as you'd get spattered with ketchup😁

A presidential debate with Biden would be very interesting…..Biden showed at the state of the union that he can still do it, Trump I’m not so sure, he could implode

Trumps too chicken. No chance of a single debate this cycle.

(I personally think refusing to debate your opponent should mean you are taken off the ballot for not doing the job, but that's an argument for another day)

Great description of Trump, he does indeed seem to lack a sense of humour, just sneers at people he doesn’t like. Don jr is the very same.

obviously needs a little more covfefe....

I think in a debate there is a chance he might get very confused, doesn’t know who he is debating, do word salad or drop an n bomb.

Not now donnie

Trump not going to court tomorrow quietly anyway but kicking and screaming and self martyring like a big baby

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/see-you-tomorrow-trump-ruefully-laments-how-just-4-years-ago-he-was-president-but-now-faces-criminal-court-and-legal-chaos/

Bizarre that c.50% of Americans still want him to be the next president.

less than half. he has never won the popular vote

In fairness though, 74m voted for him in 2020. The only fair metric to use is the 2020 popular vote, because even though that's 74m out of 330m, Biden also only got 81m. Not everyone votes or can vote, but can't really say none of those would have voted for Trump either.

Trump got just under 47% of the popular vote, so it's reasonable to say in 2020 at least, 47% of the country supported him.