Television: Dear Trump, Shut Up And Go to Hell
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Donald Trump is a willfully ignorant, disgustingly cynical gasbag and I’m sick to death of hearing about him. Even further, it pains me to say I once wrote an article in which I spoke positively about this wretch.
In simpler times, I cheered on Trump’s pathetic cantering in the limelight. He’s got the “New York straight shooter” act down pat, and when he was confined to the recesses of his ratings-less reality television show I found him oddly endearing. Sure, he’s not as rich as his persona would have you believe, and he’s far more lecherous and self-serving, but in television who isn’t?
My mistake was in forgetting that reality TV show characters are actually real people. It’s sort of funny, right? After all, the whole point of reality TV is that you’re watching reality unfold before the camera. We’re nearing 20 years since the first episode of Real World: New York, and perhaps these neigh two decades of overblown “characters” and manipulation of production on both sides of the camera have inured my brain, developing a reflexive assumption that “they’re not really like that in real life.”
Regardless of whatever bit of social programming primed me to assume that Donald Trump is not a horrible person, I was wrong. He’s a horrible person.
Watching Trump foray into politics by trying to pander to his conception of middle American conservatism is just sickening. The cocky “say anything to close the sale” style of this deceitful bully may be suited to lording over the set of a reality television show, but let’s all pray that it won’t effectively translate into American politics. If I had to guess, I’d say that Trump doesn’t actually think that Obama was born somewhere other than the US, and doesn’t actually have anything against gay marriage, but he’s happy to make political hay out of both.
Trump’s major miscalculation here is that he can’t say, “Hey, it’s just politics, sucker,” with the same impunity that he can say, “Hey, it’s just business, sucker.” Certainly politicians get away with lies all the time, but lies about beliefs and deep convictions carry much higher prices and stick around much longer in the world of politics. A business man blindly chasing money is the most natural thing in the world, but a politician blindly chasing votes is something even the most jaded voters can’t stomach.
Then again, maybe I’m giving him too much credit? Maybe this Atlantic City asshole really is a birther bigot. Either way, good luck explaining “It’s just politics” to the Devil!
I’ll say one final thing about this petty, empty man before banning him from my articles and my television set forever: He hated The Marriage Ref, and on that alone he and I will always have common ground.
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He’s an awful, awful human being, isn’t he? Every time I see him on the TV I throw up in my mouth a little bit. His professed beliefs, his actions, the things he says – we’ve actually reached a point where if I even catch a glimpse of my old Top Trumps in the desk drawer I experience a visceral nausea and disgust.
What I’m saying is, I don’t like him.
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