Haha, ya great numpty… have to admire your persistence if nothing else… and well, there is nothing else, of substance anyway…
No matter how damning this seems, to me it also seems incontrovertible.
The following, which appeared on February 11, 2019, on the internet site Quora.com, for your reading pleasure.
Someone on Quora asked “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.
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I am so going to use this at work -
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I’ve already managed to use it twice.
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Brilliant
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Oh irony of ironies. 
The people of Venezuela must be enjoying this.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097488256848007173
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I’ll reply here, because this about the US(no difference here, but people like to pretend). Have a look at the amount spent by individuals and the ways they circumvent donation rules($50m a year, every year, just on a newspaper to promote a single candidate).
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So just last week Trump wanted European countries to take back those who fought/involved in IS. This week he is not so much up for doing the same.
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Incoming!
Cohen’s testimony/report starts with a request for protection from the Presidents threats against him & his family
https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1100662773401427968?s=19
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Jesus H.
That is a hatchet job and a half on Trump, and I’ve only read half of it.
If it wasn’t a testimony to congress I’d wonder if anyone would dare to post it due to libel laws
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More analytical than the actual testimony link from Twitter
- Michael Cohen’s bombshell 20-page testimony accuses President Trump of being a racist, a conman and a cheat
And how many Trump supporters will believe a word of it?
Not one. Plenty of wiggle room and comments already.
But clever to have stayed focused & have evidence on some points
Out of interest, surely none of this is admissible due to client attorney privilege?