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pat_k

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3. That the audience responds as if this troll is doing anything but jeering and crowing is depressing.
Sat May 2, 2026, 02:34 AM
Yesterday

As the nausea rises and my skin crawls, there are people in the audience laughing and clapping.

I just don't f-ing get it. Nate White, speaking on behalf of his fellow brits, also speaks for me.

https://thehobbledehoy.com/tag/nate-white/

...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.

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