Trump makes burqa attractive
JANE BOWRON
Donald Trump’s petulant declaration that he may not accept the results of the American elections should he lose, so threatening to keep the country in suspense, was a classic reality-TV manoeuvre.
Debasing American’s democratic system to the level of a banana republic by showing contempt for the electoral process has further lowered Toast Trump’s stocks. Who wasn’t looking for the clown suit underneath his baggy designer threads hiding his obesity when he uttered his soreloser threat?
Trump’s challenging of the results on the grounds of alleged widespread voter fraud is a nonsense when members of the Republican party have said there is no evidence of it.
However, there may be evidence of voter rigging committed by Republican secretaries of states falsely forcing people with Latino, Afro and Asian American-sounding names off voting rolls. Add to the confusion the cutbacks in formal observers at voting booths on election day and the system is vulnerable to abuse.
Trump’s performance in the third debate was peppered with his customary ticks – fiddling with the microphone stand, endless sips of water, and snorting and sniffing, particularly when he was speaking of heroin.
His schoolyard taunts to Hillary Clinton that she was a nasty woman and his shakings of his head like a tired, dehydrated wildebeest lost on the plains made him a pathetic sight.
He may have been suffering from shock that Fox News moderator Chris Wallace, who ran the fairest of debates, didn’t let Trump off the hook and challenged him on several points.
Trump, who had little understanding of Brexit, is now hoping that the American polls indicating a Clinton victory aren’t picking up on an undercurrent for radical change to the establishment, and will deliver an upset equal to the shock Brexit result.
In the long three-week interim till November 8, if Trump fails in his bizarre bid for the presidency, his wildly rumoured plan B to set up an extreme Right news network will be worrying Fox News.
One can only imagine what the Trump network content will look like as it goes after the long list of Hollywood ‘nasty women’ such as Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Madonna, Julia Roberts, and ‘bad hombres’ like Robert De Niro who have so vehemently come out against him.
With the discrediting of mainstream media in his sights, The Donald may make Julian Assange his creature and use him as his main news feed. No need for news bulletins, fair reportage, interviews and getting both sides of the story. The notion of paying journalists a wage is anathema to the boss who will replace lippy hacks and old-style journalism with daily/hourly releases from WikiLeaks in association with the Trump network.
When is a campaign not a campaign? When the bid for the presidency has been shamelessly used as an advertisement for the Trump brand. With threats of a revolution by Trump’s followers, deluded into thinking that the democratic process has been rigged and manipulated by a biased media, Trump has a readymade audience.
There’s content a-plenty with seasons of The Apprentice ready for high rotate rerun, while morning and afternoon scheduling will be devoted to various grooming shows for lady girls hosted by Melania Trump. Trophy wife workouts, dietary advice, and tips on how to keep your boy/man happy from former beauty pageant queens will be on offer.
Talk show host Howard Stern could be relied upon for several guest appearances, and Billy Bush is expected to make a comeback and given a job for copping the blame for what should have stayed on the bus.
Melania fingered Billy as the bad boy who egged her Donny on and told anchor Anderson Cooper that her husband had apologised to her for the rude things he’d said, only to have that refuted in the third debate by Trump, who said he hadn’t apologised to his wife. (If she had objected to his conduct, no doubt he would have told The Good Wife to consult the pre-nup.)
Howard Beale, the fictitious character from the film Network about a deranged TV show anchor who goes off the rails and captivates red-neck America with the catch cry ‘‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore’’, will have nothing on the anger generated by the Trump network.
There’s gold to be made from built-up seething resentment, and now that the beast has been unleashed it needs to be constantly screen-fed, kept pumped up and misinformed. Women need to be put in their place and kept barefoot, submissive and pregnant, no matter how ugly the brute it was who knocked them up.
No one respects women more than Donald Trump, who thinks all women are beautiful – but some are more beautiful than others. Pussies and dogs is how he sees them in his predatory mind that longs to make America Grope Again.
Who would have thought that Trump would be responsible for Western women voluntarily taking up the burqa, not for reasons of faith but as protective clothing – and a bulletproof one for Hillary.