Trump mockery backfires for smug protestors

For years, people have been complaining that politicians are all dull, robotic and devoid of personality.

You could never accuse Donald Trump of any of the above. Yet, despite bucking the trend of political blandness, the US President had nothing but protests for his troubles during his recent visit.

While Trump may be awful on many levels, the thousands of people who try to make a virtue of hating him are somehow worse.

Often guilty of the very things of which Trump is accused, they float on a cloud of smug moral certainty which somehow gives you sympathy for a deeply unsympathetic character.

Just to be clear, a loud dislike of Donald Trump and a few self-righteous Facebook posts don’t automatically make you ‘a good person’. In so many cases, it merely makes you an insufferable attentionseeker and a bit of a bore.

Most of the ‘protests’ boiled down to a childish need to say in public: ‘Donald Trump’s racist and sexist and I’m not! Look at me!”

While many news reports referred to the ‘anger’ of the Trump protesters, I’ve never seen a group of people looking so happy.

Our country has entertained all manner of despots in the recent past, which people were generally happy to pass off without demonstration.

That’s because Trump has become almost like a cartoon villain, as seen by the inflatable baby caricature that greeted his visit. Because making fun of someone’s personal appearance is apparently okay if it’s done under the moral amnesty of being a professional Trump-hater.