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Martin Eden

(15,871 posts)
39. Regarding Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:
Sat May 16, 2026, 03:03 PM
Saturday

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