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Martin Eden

(15,905 posts)
39. Regarding Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:
Sat May 16, 2026, 03:03 PM
May 16

If you haven't read British writer Nate White's 2019 smackdown of Trump, you're in for a treat. Towards the bottom of the excerpt below is a reference to Frankenstein, which you reminded me of with your post.

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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The asshole needs an exorcist, not a psychiatrist. dalton99a May 16 #1
Exactly! He is pure evil. Grim Chieftain May 16 #3
It drives me crazy FHRRK1 May 16 #2
Precisely. B.See May 16 #8
Morally evil and mentally ill are not mutually excludve. wnylib May 16 #27
THIS malaise May 16 #30
I was going to posit the same thing - he is both. yellow dahlia May 16 #34
I'd agree they aren't mutually exclusive. He's B.See May 16 #43
And he's not dumb. He's a diabolical genius. nt pnwmom May 16 #4
BULLSHIT. He is profoundly stupid. Even Rex Tillerson recognized that in his first term. AZ8theist May 16 #6
Yes, he is mentally dull NJCher May 16 #7
What that means is that his genius, i.e., his superpower, is in being evil. nt pnwmom May 16 #15
He is completely immoral Cosmocat May 16 #31
Violence Whip-poor-will May 16 #16
He may be somewhat stupid; but even more so Profoundly Ignorant and doesn't care... electric_blue68 Monday #45
Or maybe he's gotten a free pass for evil, underhanded s---- that would've gotten anyone else LOCKED UP, long ago. B.See May 16 #9
NOPE Skittles May 16 #12
an evil genius wd intelligently pick his targets. mopinko May 16 #22
It's just an issue of word choice NJCher May 16 #28
Why. Can't. He. Just. Die? Grim Chieftain May 16 #5
Trump is sly...he knows how to manipulate racists BlueWaveNeverEnd May 16 #10
doesn't take "sly" to do that NJCher May 16 #24
He won't die and go to hell, Satan doesn't even BigmanPigman May 16 #11
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 ..... ♾️ live love laugh May 16 #13
Paint "Old Smokey" gold. BidenRocks May 16 #14
I AGREE. THANK YOU, B.SEE. Cha May 16 #17
Thank you, Cha. B.See May 16 #44
Trump has The Dark Triad Personality no_hypocrisy May 16 #18
Thank you for your summary and your willingness to share your story. yellow dahlia May 16 #35
Woah especially about that last (then) possibility. electric_blue68 Monday #46
I think a person can be both evil and mentally ill. The notion calling Trump mentally ill is somehow harmful to those Vinca May 16 #19
a psychiatrist once told me NJCher May 16 #25
He's at the center of a Venn diagram of evil, stupid, and crazy. Ocelot II May 16 #20
What his best friend said about him... Kid Berwyn May 16 #21
Malignant narcissism is a mental pathology Martin Eden May 16 #23
I've only been saying this forever. BlueTsunami2018 May 16 #26
I will not grant trump the sympathetic response that "mentally ill" deserves. Totally Tunsie May 16 #29
Yes yes yes TommieMommy May 16 #32
Evil schmevil. gulliver May 16 #33
Technically incorrect. returnee May 16 #36
Histrionic Personality Disorder, less recognized in men. Obvious in this one Maru Kitteh May 16 #41
we tend to think of monsters as fictional beasts agingdem May 16 #37
Regarding Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Martin Eden May 16 #39
Correct mvd May 16 #38
Evil is a religious construct and not very useful. He certainly IS mentally ill. Maru Kitteh May 16 #40
Frontal lobe dementia plus sadism: loves to hurt people, deliberately. lindysalsagal May 16 #42
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