The howling and unreflective void at his core will keep him lonely and stupid

[pangaia]

Oh, MY. This IS A GOOD ONE….
I had to edit down to only parts of 4 paragraphs, but this is priceless perception and writing.
Bold IS MINE..

Starting with a brief quote.

“Dogs are animals that introduce themselves by assertively investigating their peers’ b-holes. You have gathered that this is about Donald Trump.”


https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-president-of-blank-sucking-nullity-roth

David Roth, August 22
THE BAFFLER.COM

The President of Blank Sucking Nullity

The most significant thing to know about Donald Trump’s politics or process, his beliefs or his calculations, is that he is an asshole; the only salient factor in any decision he makes is that he absolutely does not care about the interests of the parties involved except as they reflect upon him. Start with this, and you already know a lot.

It is not quite fair to say that Donald Trump lacks core beliefs, but to the extent that we can take apart these beliefs they amount to Give Donald Trump Your Money and Donald Trump Should Really Be on Television More. The only comprehensible throughline to his politics is that everything Trump says is something he’s said previously, with additional very’s and more-and-more’s appended over time; his worldview amounts to the sum of the dumb shit he saw on the cover of the New York Post in 1985, subjected to a few decades of rancid compounding interest and deteriorating mental aptitude. He watches a lot of cable news, but he struggles to follow even stories that have been custom built for people like him—old, uninformed, amorphously if deeply aggrieved.

There’s a reason for this. Trump doesn’t know anything or really believe anything about any topic beyond himself, because he has no interest in any topic beyond himself; his evident cognitive decline and hyperactive laziness and towering monomania ensure that he will never again learn a new thing in his life. He has no friends and no real allies; his inner circle is divided between ostensibly scandalized cynics and theatrically shameless ones, all of whom hold him in low regard and see him as a potential means to their individuated ends. There is no help on the way; his outer orbit is a rotation of replacement-level rage-grandpas and defective, perpetually clammy operators.

To understand Trump is also to understand his appeal as an aspirational brand to the worst people in the United States. What his intransigent admirers like most about him—the thing they aspire to, in their online cosplay sessions and their desperately thirsty performances for a media they loathe and to which they are so helplessly addicted—is his freedom to be unconcerned with anything but himself. This is not because he is rich or brave or astute; it’s because he is an asshole, and so authentically unconcerned. The howling and unreflective void at his core will keep him lonely and stupid until the moment a sufficient number of his vital organs finally resign in disgrace, but it liberates him to devote every bit of his being to his pursuit of himself. Actual hate and actual love, as other people feel them, are too complicated to fit into this world. In their place, for Trump and for the people who see in him a way of being that they are too busy or burdened or humane to pursue, are the versions that exist in a lower orbit, around the self. Instead of hate, there is simple resentment—abject and valueless and recursively self-pitying; instead of love, there is the blank sucking nullity of vanity and appetite.

[Phoenix61]

1. Yep, pretty much sums him up. nt

[hwmnbn]

2. Wow!! Excellent description

[smirkymonkey]

3. Pretty much spot on.

I wonder if he reads articles like this and if so, what his reaction is? Does he dismiss them outright or do you think that some of the truth about himself sinks in? Does he have any idea how much he is despised and looked down upon by so many people? Even HE can't be so stupid to think he is universally loved and admired.

[pangaia]

4. O promise you, he doesn't read articles like this.

He doesn't read articles about ANYTHING.
he is too stupid and lazy.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Well, it is ALL about HIM.

There is always a chance.

[Scarsdale]

6. He really thinks he DESERVES to be

president. He is so conceited he honestly thinks all three wives married him for love!! How funny is THAT? It amazes me that when he looks into a mirror he sees "handsome" features, when the rest of us see REPULSIVE. He is a buffoon who seriously sees himself as a great leader. I hope we all see REALITY hit him when he is led away in handcuffs.

[apkhgp]

7. Mental Ability

To get in to the mind of 45 and find out what he thinks about.
That is not something to be taken lightly.
Even though he can be predictable there are times when he is erratic.
That is where we need to be patient and bide our time waiting for him to disintegrate.

[Skittles]

8. HOW DID 63 MILLION AMERICANS FALL FOR THIS SICK FUCKING BUFFOON???

WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT AMERICA???