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malaise

(267,799 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:24 PM Jul 2015

Donald Trump is the definition of

the Ugly American - loud, obnoxious, rude, boorish, ignorant, but thinks he knows everything, offensive, boastful, particularly about money and material shit.

I detest the scumbag and give thanks that he is also viewed the same way by rational Americans.

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Donald Trump is the definition of (Original Post) malaise Jul 2015 OP
And that was the short list! Phew, could you imagine him trying to work an RKP5637 Jul 2015 #1
I knew I'd be called for missing way too much malaise Jul 2015 #2
Look on the bright side...you aren't married to him! eom Frustratedlady Jul 2015 #10
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Jul 2015 #12
I am not sure which spouse scares me the most. Malbrownluna8708 Jul 2015 #72
Corporations have more net worth than most governments. Of course he'd create disasters. freshwest Jul 2015 #34
Sadly I think you are correct malaise Jul 2015 #80
What you wrote perfectly defines the new Governor of Illinois, guillaumeb Jul 2015 #45
Why do people validate these scumbags? malaise Jul 2015 #61
A very low turnout in an off year election. guillaumeb Jul 2015 #79
I'm seeing a pattern in the companies that are dumping him Warpy Jul 2015 #3
Even Tweety wondered where they all were when he was calling malaise Jul 2015 #4
"Oh shit, if he keeps this up Aerows Jul 2015 #40
+1,000 malaise Jul 2015 #43
An ambulatory turd. hifiguy Jul 2015 #5
The human equivalent of a fart... abakan Jul 2015 #60
One of those really bad "greasy" farts. hifiguy Jul 2015 #63
LOL yep abakan Jul 2015 #65
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Jul 2015 #70
Yes... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #83
I read the book in the sixties--it made quite an impression panader0 Jul 2015 #6
My dad had a copy malaise Jul 2015 #8
Read it around then, too. malthaussen Jul 2015 #28
I read that one, too. What a waste to conduct oneself that way. n/t freshwest Jul 2015 #36
egotistical stupidity... kentuck Jul 2015 #7
and proud of it malaise Jul 2015 #9
A prime example of the arrogance of ignorance. n/t malthaussen Jul 2015 #30
I sooo want him at the top of the clown car! Pleasepleaseplease! They'll be extinct! n/t freshwest Jul 2015 #11
OK I'm trying to picture that malaise Jul 2015 #14
Nah, but I've seen several. I have to copy and past her/his posts on a text document to see 'em now. freshwest Jul 2015 #22
This one malaise Jul 2015 #33
LOL! Uh, oh, indeed! Thanks for showing it to me. n/t freshwest Jul 2015 #39
That's the wrong link malaise Jul 2015 #41
Well, they're all muy feo, IMO. Just a nightmare! n/t freshwest Jul 2015 #42
An ugly American with a fright wig aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2015 #13
And then some malaise Jul 2015 #16
This is why he now wears a baseball cap when he's outdoors lunatica Jul 2015 #32
Looks like a pot of very uncooperatively sticky spaghetti. calimary Jul 2015 #74
This is the real reason he was trying to stop the Scots from building that wind farm, ya know! freshwest Jul 2015 #82
That's a rug malaise Jul 2015 #86
As opposed to Rand Paul's weasel on his head. Have you notice all the GOP look like they've been hit freshwest Jul 2015 #87
They're mostly parrots carrying the party line malaise Jul 2015 #88
Agreed. Still thinking of this guy, though: freshwest Jul 2015 #90
He's a caricature, malaise mcar Jul 2015 #15
Beautifully stated malaise Jul 2015 #17
Thanks mcar Jul 2015 #21
... and that's what his supporters like about him, oddly enough. nt Electric Monk Jul 2015 #18
WOW!! Thespian2 Jul 2015 #19
Why Don't Your Just Say swilton Jul 2015 #20
Donald Trump is the epitome of L. Coyote Jul 2015 #23
That picture is absolutely... 3catwoman3 Jul 2015 #25
LOL! lunatica Jul 2015 #29
Getting up off the floor malaise Jul 2015 #31
The definition of... 3catwoman3 Jul 2015 #24
But he is SUCH a caricature, SO over the top, that I almost wonder if he's Grown2Hate Jul 2015 #26
Good point malaise Jul 2015 #35
Total Jerkitude. calimary Jul 2015 #27
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahha malaise Jul 2015 #38
Well? You did ask. calimary Jul 2015 #44
Choking with laughter malaise Jul 2015 #49
Me neither. I keep cheering for him to hang in there! Keep blurting, Donald! calimary Jul 2015 #73
Life support system for the roadkill on a head. PufPuf23 Jul 2015 #37
But how different are his views from fellow malaise Jul 2015 #46
Trump is a variant attractor that allows the less entitled to self-sort. PufPuf23 Jul 2015 #51
I remember when he took on the Scots for daring to malaise Jul 2015 #54
Where does Trump find the time and energy to be so Trumpy? PufPuf23 Jul 2015 #58
And he likes to talk about rape - he's a Rapepublican aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2015 #47
He spews pure chicken malaise Jul 2015 #53
"...he has a round little mouth like a chicken's ass." SunSeeker Jul 2015 #55
Poor Donald. He can't help it. lpbk2713 Jul 2015 #48
Love Ann Richards malaise Jul 2015 #50
+ 1000 Well Put !!!!!! orpupilofnature57 Jul 2015 #52
Poster child for excess money and power and how it corrupts absolutely. Hubris personified. NRaleighLiberal Jul 2015 #56
He is a caricature of the cliched Mr. Moneybags character. raouldukelives Jul 2015 #57
He seems to have lost a lot of money recently. Owl Jul 2015 #59
He's likely to lose a lot more malaise Jul 2015 #67
For sure. Owl Jul 2015 #69
Gail Collins summed him up best in just one sentence, mobeau69 Jul 2015 #62
Freaking perfect malaise Jul 2015 #64
Welcome to DU, mobeau69! calimary Jul 2015 #75
You're cracking me up here sis malaise Jul 2015 #78
k&r... spanone Jul 2015 #66
Ugly American is the perfect label for him passiveporcupine Jul 2015 #68
Thank you for pointing out his better qualities. Vinca Jul 2015 #71
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Jul 2015 #77
LEt's hope he destroys the GOP once and for all Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2015 #76
A lady can hope malaise Jul 2015 #81
I think that Trump is who Jesus was thinking about when he said " it is easier for a camel to demosincebirth Jul 2015 #84
T-Rump is just another word for fecal matter. Solly Mack Jul 2015 #85
I'm embarrassed to be from the same country as DT Jamaal510 Jul 2015 #89

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
1. And that was the short list! Phew, could you imagine him trying to work an
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:35 PM
Jul 2015

international crisis with Putin, for example.

malaise

(267,799 posts)
2. I knew I'd be called for missing way too much
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:39 PM
Jul 2015

You know the worst thing is that he has no understanding of the political system - he knows nothing about Constitutional arrangements - he actually believes he can run government the way he runs his business.

He would create more crises.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
34. Corporations have more net worth than most governments. Of course he'd create disasters.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:17 PM
Jul 2015

Just like so many have - great cycle of wealth there. Romney, Paul, etc. all want to run the government as a business. The mantra was force fed to Americans when Reagan was in office.

Here's a video by Russell Means about corporations and how this isn't sustainable:



That didn't even mention climate change. But they just won't listen. I also think they are working to make sure they escape the worst of it. Since I don't believe the misery is going to be equally distributed, it never has been.

It will be the end of representative or any other kind of democracy. Corporations, theocracies, etc. are hierachical and all power is at the top, no matter what mistakes are made, and never democratic. Never.

We're galloping to neo-feudalism. And climate change will make it all seem necessary. Desperation makes people give up their rights, and they can be 'dog eat dog' which is exaclty what the RWNJs are training for all the time. Those guns aren't just for looking at, their racism and sexism has a goal as well - power and the control of territory.

No individual rights, which is a western construct for the most part AFAIK, except natives had it, too. But many countries never had that, so sex slavery, chattel slavery and treating their population like animals and bowing to the warlords or priest s or whoever is normal to them.

I'm sure you remember Obama's great talk in Jamaica. He talked about that to those whom I hope will be future world leaders. They will face many challenges that we have not concieved of yet.

malaise

(267,799 posts)
80. Sadly I think you are correct
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:32 PM
Jul 2015

Our democracies are in deep trouble - they're even threatening Greece about holding a referendum.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
45. What you wrote perfectly defines the new Governor of Illinois,
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:24 PM
Jul 2015

Bruce Ruiner.

No, Bruce Rauner. A hedge fund thief and loud mouthed bully who feels that he can apply his business experience to the state.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
79. A very low turnout in an off year election.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:17 PM
Jul 2015

Plus Rauner/Ruiner spent over $20 million of his own money, plus outside money.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
3. I'm seeing a pattern in the companies that are dumping him
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:56 PM
Jul 2015

Most are headed by GOPs and don't give a rat's ass what he says about Mexicans. All the cancellations and firings are a shot across his bow, warning him not to pursue this. When even the Republicans see you as a blowhard and international catastrophe waiting to happen, perhaps it's time to curtail appearances and just collect the money the Super PAC is laundering.

He's the angry white man's angry white man, happily parroting everything Coulter has written in her latest hate book. He also has star power because of this, and while that's usually what the GOP goes for in a candidate, they know he'd actually try to run things instead of taking orders and that is the last thing they want.

And yes, he is the stereotypical Ugly American and that appellation has little to do with his ugly looks and everything to do with his ugly personality.

malaise

(267,799 posts)
4. Even Tweety wondered where they all were when he was calling
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:58 PM
Jul 2015

the President an illegal immigrant.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
40. "Oh shit, if he keeps this up
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:21 PM
Jul 2015

our secret will be out and they will look at us"!

Is essentially the thinking.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
5. An ambulatory turd.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:59 PM
Jul 2015

He also perfectly reflects what the Repuke party has become in one nauseating package.

abakan

(1,815 posts)
60. The human equivalent of a fart...
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 08:00 PM
Jul 2015

All he does is, expend a lot of hot air, and stink up the place.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
63. One of those really bad "greasy" farts.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 08:10 PM
Jul 2015

The kind that hangs humidly in the air like a semi-permanent miasma.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
6. I read the book in the sixties--it made quite an impression
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 06:05 PM
Jul 2015

In 1957 my dad got stationed at Sidi Slimane in Morocco. Winters and summers we toured Europe. England, Germany, Italy,
Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Austria. But Morocco was where I saw the most "ugly" ( I was seven). The Europeans were treated differently, nicer, by the Americans than the Moroccans.
From Wiki:



The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. The book depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps, whose insensitivity to local language and customs was in marked contrast to the polished abilities of East bloc (primarily Soviet) diplomacy and led to Communist diplomatic success overseas.[1] The book caused a sensation in diplomatic circles. John F. Kennedy was so impressed with the book that he sent a copy to each of his colleagues in the United States Senate. The book was one of the biggest bestsellers in the country, has been in print continuously since it appeared and is one of the most politically influential novels in all of American literature.

malaise

(267,799 posts)
8. My dad had a copy
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 06:11 PM
Jul 2015

I read it as a teenager - it left a serious impression. It is a brilliant book.

Didn't know Kennedy sent it to his colleagues - makes sense.

malthaussen

(17,065 posts)
28. Read it around then, too.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:05 PM
Jul 2015

Late sixties, probably.

I know it is irreverent, but it reminds me of the film John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, which opens with a diplomatic disaster when the US ambassador presents a set of luggage to an Arab shiek as a gift -- of pigskin. Not a recommended movie, but I've always loved it. Hey, Peter Ustinov playing a shiek and Shirley MacLaine half-naked as a harem girl/undercover reporter. What's not to like? And it even has a score by John Williams.

-- Mal

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
22. Nah, but I've seen several. I have to copy and past her/his posts on a text document to see 'em now.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 06:58 PM
Jul 2015
So he was on top, then?

I want him to drive the damn thing!

All the way to the bone yard.


lunatica

(53,410 posts)
32. This is why he now wears a baseball cap when he's outdoors
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:09 PM
Jul 2015

that hair will sprout giant wings and fly him away otherwise.

calimary

(80,693 posts)
74. Looks like a pot of very uncooperatively sticky spaghetti.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:03 PM
Jul 2015

Or maybe what's left over at the bottom of a cotton candy machine? Uh-oh, this batch turned out yellow...

Somebody couldn't make it to the bathroom in time?

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
82. This is the real reason he was trying to stop the Scots from building that wind farm, ya know!
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 11:05 PM
Jul 2015

What's amazing is that he thinks he looks cool. And that isn't his own real hair, is it?

I think it's a toupee. He should use hair spray.... somethin'

Honest to Gawd, where are these people produced anyway? Some kinda constipation factory?

He needs help, seriously. But I still want him to win the GOP nomination! Woohoo!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
87. As opposed to Rand Paul's weasel on his head. Have you notice all the GOP look like they've been hit
Sun Jul 5, 2015, 10:28 PM
Jul 2015
in the head with a brick or been traumatized somehow?

Something just not quite right about these guys. They don't seem to be fully conscious.

Maybe they are alien greys...

I always saw GWB as having been dropped on his head as a baby, somethin' like that...

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
90. Agreed. Still thinking of this guy, though:
Sun Jul 5, 2015, 11:02 PM
Jul 2015


Doesn't he remind you of every smarmy Republican you ever had to deal with?

mcar

(42,206 posts)
15. He's a caricature, malaise
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 06:20 PM
Jul 2015

A buffoon and, yes, stereotype of an Ugly American.

He couldn't happen to a more deserving party.

 

swilton

(5,069 posts)
20. Why Don't Your Just Say
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 06:45 PM
Jul 2015

Fill in the blank.........................

I'm certain that the predicate nominatives/adjectives are endless.

Grown2Hate

(2,005 posts)
26. But he is SUCH a caricature, SO over the top, that I almost wonder if he's
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:03 PM
Jul 2015

a Democratic operative. I mean, if we built a Repuke candidate from scratch to bring out the worst qualities in a candidate running for national office, could we do better than Donald Trump? He's PERFECT for how horrible he is as a human. It really makes me wonder sometimes. I'm just happy he's running and making for such a nasty situation for the Repukes with a HUGE voting bloc.

calimary

(80,693 posts)
27. Total Jerkitude.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:03 PM
Jul 2015

But I love him to pieces for trashing the brand! He shat on the GOP brand so badly lately that they're gonna have to change their signature color from red to brown.

calimary

(80,693 posts)
73. Me neither. I keep cheering for him to hang in there! Keep blurting, Donald!
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 08:57 PM
Jul 2015

We're all going to be walking around dragging our chins on the ground! I can't wait!

Trash the brand, Donald!

I keep thinking back to his yapping nonstop about Barack Obama's birth certificate and saying all these people he supposedly had investigating everything over in Hawaii - "they can't believe what they're finding!" YEAH, you carwash-chamois-headed fuckstick! That's because there's NOTHING THERE!!! It's all - uh - shall we say - "Trumped Up!" Or, according to the very strategic camera framing just below, obviously all this is just more shit he pulls out of his posterior!

[img][/img]

Hey, I LOVE this guy! I laughed for two days straight after he announced! He just perked up my mood something fierce! Every clown car needs a hood ornament, and now we have him! Yellow knob-mop and everything!

[img][/img]

PufPuf23

(8,687 posts)
37. Life support system for the roadkill on a head.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:19 PM
Jul 2015

A far too public embarrassment for the USA.

A focus group subject for some sort of only in America personality disorder.

PufPuf23

(8,687 posts)
51. Trump is a variant attractor that allows the less entitled to self-sort.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:36 PM
Jul 2015

There is some hope in the World when Trump is even an embarrassment at least some of the most vile politic - the ReTHUGs.

OTOH the World or at least the USA appears quite hopeless when the likes of Trump is part of supposed serious social discourse much less a material success and admired by many. Yuck.

The GOP and American conservatives have a major ability to be attracted to individuals and ideas that are ugly, mean, and stupid.

So we have Trump.

Happy 4th of July.

malaise

(267,799 posts)
54. I remember when he took on the Scots for daring to
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:45 PM
Jul 2015

have windfarms near his golf course. That was the behavior of the quintessential 'ugly American'.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/donald-trump-loses-windfarm-scottish-golf-resort
<snip>
Donald Trump has lost a legal action against a major experimental windfarm being built close to his golf resort in Aberdeenshire.

The billionaire property developer had alleged that Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, had secretly interfered in the decision to approve the 11-turbine European offshore wind deployment centre site (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay – a claim rejected on Tuesday by a Scottish civil court judge, Lord Doherty.

Making clear he was expecting to appeal, Trump alleged there had been clear and illegal bias by the Scottish government – and that his rights under the European convention of human rights had been breached.

Doherty dismissed the claims that Salmond had interfered, stating he "was not persuaded that the fair-minded and informed observer would conclude that there was a real possibility of bias on the part of the decision-maker; or that the decision not to have a public inquiry had been unreasonable or unlawful".

PufPuf23

(8,687 posts)
58. Where does Trump find the time and energy to be so Trumpy?
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:58 PM
Jul 2015

Can you imagine what it would be like to consider Trump a positive celebrity or to be Trump?

I can't even go there.

Well I'd spend some of my big bucks on a decent hair style.

If I was Trump, I would retire and enjoy my ill gotten wealth.

Trump feeds on negative attention.

Trump self-promotes.

Trump is a bully.

Trump can't get too much attention.

Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
57. He is a caricature of the cliched Mr. Moneybags character.
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 07:55 PM
Jul 2015

So over the top that one would only believe it in reality. He is every bit Mr. Potter. His dreams are every bit Trumpville USA.

Kind of funny in a way since I always compare Bernie to a Capra movie lead. Standing up for the little guy, not taking ones self too seriously, creative writing, walking the walk, waiting for trains alone, speaking plain American common sense to directly to the people and not being overly concerned with how one appears to others.

On this 4th I am thankful for the fires of liberty. May they Bern brightly.

mobeau69

(11,074 posts)
62. Gail Collins summed him up best in just one sentence,
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 08:09 PM
Jul 2015

"He's everything your mother told you not to be."

calimary

(80,693 posts)
75. Welcome to DU, mobeau69!
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:07 PM
Jul 2015

Glad you're here! This thread has to be the winner of the day! I've been laughing steadily ever since I first peeked at it. Donald Trump is - um - very inspirational, isn't he? I've never seen this many good one-liners outside of the average Jon Stewart show!

demosincebirth

(12,518 posts)
84. I think that Trump is who Jesus was thinking about when he said " it is easier for a camel to
Sun Jul 5, 2015, 12:14 AM
Jul 2015

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