The aching boredom
Ashley Feinberg has all the sympathy for Trump’s plight.
Donald Trump does not want to be the president.
Donald Trump likes going to rallies. He likes hearing people scream his name in ecstasy while calling for the imprisonment and death of his enemies. He likes going on TV. He likes hearing about how high the ratings were after he goes on TV. He likes grabbing women by the pussy and moving on them “like a bitch.”
What Donald Trump does not like, however, is keeping his promises, sitting still for more than five minutes at a time, or doing any kind of work whatsoever, tedious or otherwise. It’s probably why so many of his business ventures were spectacular, blistering failures over the years.
But unfortunately for Donald Trump and everyone else in the world save Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is about to be the president. And as miserable as it is for us, there is one small, saving grace amidst the despair: Donald Trump looks like he wants to die.
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He doesn’t look as if he wants to die any more than usual – he has resting furious face. But he doesn’t look happy and excited and thrilled, that’s for dang sure. He also doesn’t look like Obama – attentive, relaxed, human. Trump looks like a demon about to erupt…but then he always does.
As many noted, in the photos of their meeting in the Oval Office, Trump looks absolutely terrified. As well he should be—this is a man who has absolutely no business running anything, much less the United States. And apparently, he knows it.
But it’s more than just being scared of what he got himself into. Donald Trump is positively miserable. He hates this shit! He doesn’t want to walk around getting a tour with Mitch McConnell. Nor does he want to sit at a boring table next to boring Paul Ryan and talk about boring things that aren’t Donald Trump.
Of course he doesn’t. He’s easily bored because he’s a pinhead. There’s nothing going on in his brain, so boredom always lurks.
Uh oh, here comes the libel suit against you, Ophelia. You cannot prove that he’s a pinhead!
*snark*
He’s welcome to come at me, bro.
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has this video showing Trump’s face when he needs to read something.
If Trump has a learning disability (I assume dyslexia), I would never put anyone down for that. But I see the role of POTUS as a critical part in our government as a machine, and we can’t know how our government works, mechanically as a machine, until we can get an evaluation: Can Donald Trump read?
“[T]here is one small, saving grace amidst the despair: Donald Trump looks like he wants to die.”
That would be a saving grace if he were inclined to do it alone. Unfortunately, his death wish more likely involves taking as much of the rest of the world as possible down with him in an atomic blaze of glory.
(off topic)
Has anyone else been noticing Ophelia’s tagging scheme? Here are the tags for the last dozen posts:
President Pussygrabber
President Pussygrabber
President Birther
President Oops
President Plutocrat
President Pussygrabber
President Plutocrat
President Corrupt
(none)
President Corrupt
President Oops
President Oops
:-)
This is why I love B&W.
(/off topic)
I’m reminded of those sultans and Chinese emperors who were figureheads while their mothers and concubines did the actual work of governing. His daughter doesn’t seem to be a bad sort…
But look on the bright side. He has the attention span of a toddler.
First one pussy appears. So he grabs at it. Then another appears. So he grabs at that one, losing interest in the first.
The theme for his administration will be ‘pussy to pussy to pussy.’
And that is just about all he’s got. Apart from the nuclear button.
DT’s lack of focus is one reason that many people (including outsiders like me) consider Pence to be far more terrifying. But the initially comforting possibility of DT surrounding himself with competent advisors is rapidly crumblimng.
Assuming DT can read, the questions are: Does he read?, and if so, What does he read? (And if he has dyslexia or similar disability, there are audiobooks for that.)
A few years ago, Yann Martel, the Canadian author of Life of Pi sent 101 novels, poetry, and children’s books to then Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Perhaps someone will embark upon a similar project for DT.
From the Washington Post, in July:
He’s too clueless to realize how clueless he is.
And didn’t Trump’s biographer talk about how he didn’t read?
As Mark Twain once said, “He who will not read is no better off than he who cannot read.”
I have quite a few students who react the same way. They are not reading disabled, they are able to read, they just absolutely hate it. And so they don’t bother to figure out how it works.
Silentbob @ 6 – heh – thank you for noticing. I initially intended to leave it at President Pussygrabber for the duration – to let that just be his name. But then, of course, it became too obvious that his horrors aren’t all linked to his ferocious view of women, so I’ve been gradually adding to the lexicon. I want it to be limited though. Tricky, when he has such a range of terrible, but that’s the plan.
Ben @ 9 – I think so, yes. I know I read somewhere that he reads almost nothing, and I think it was the biographer’s long piece in the New Yorker.
Correction, the piece was about the biographer and his thoughts on Trump; it was by Jane Mayer.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
Yes I saw it there:
I’m pretty sure I quoted that passage here.
No, apparently I didn’t quote it.
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2016/hes-a-living-black-hole/
I should have!
Trump’s “resting furious face” is possibly his only saving grace. Whenever he smiles he looks like a frog taking a shit, so its something of blessing he’s almost perpetually grumpy
Hmm. I really can’t agree. He looks actively hostile and threatening at all times. It is not a good look for that job.
Which is not to say I like his smiley face. But I think his air of simmering fury is part of his whole bully persona, and I think that is anathema.
I read a piece just recently about the difference between regular college and law school–in a regular college setting, the first day is pretty much “syllabus day”, where you get told what’s expected of you, and you can figure out how many days of class you can afford to skip and still get your participation grade, and then you get your first real assignment that’s due in a week or so, with some reading in the interim.
First day of law school, OTOH, you walk in expected to have mastered some 200 pages of dense reading, so that you can be grilled by an unsympathetic instructor while surrounded by a group of other academic overachievers who are happy to judge you down for any perceived weakness in your knowledge, intellect or presentation.
The thrust of the article was that this transition meeting, including the closed-door portion–would far more resemble that first day of law school. (It also suggested that the best revenge Obama could get would be to simply proceed through the meeting without ever once even implying he didn’t think Trump deserved to be there–and thus, not dumbing down the presentation one bit.) Trump was expecting to get a syllabus, and he got dropped into the deep end of the pool. No wonder he looks so grumpy.
Yeah. It’s now being reported that he had no idea what the job actually entails.
I’m kind of speechless.