Here is the link to Part 1
A couple of people have asked me why I don’t like Donald Trump.
“Sure, he’s rough around the edges,” they say.
“But don’t you admire his strength? His success? His golf swing?”
And I smile politely – the same way you do when someone tells you they prefer fish fingers to a freshly grilled King George whiting.
It’s not just that he behaves like the villain in a badly written soap opera who’s inherited a media empire and immediately declared war on decency. I’ve got reasons – plenty of them. Most were laid out in Part 1, but with a little more time to reflect, I’m ready to add a few more to the list.
Let’s start with the obvious: the truth deficit. Trump treats facts the way most people treat unwanted Facebook invites – he ignores them completely, or worse, deletes them with a CAPS-LOCKED tweet. Whether it’s the size of his inauguration crowd or the number of people who voted illegally in 2020 (zero, by the way, which is about 60 million less than what he thinks it is), the man has a magical ability to conjure up falsehoods like a magician pulling golf balls from a red cap.
He once claimed wind turbines cause cancer. He thinks injecting bleach will cure COVID. He says he “aced” a dementia test because he remembered the words “person, woman, man, camera, TV.” I’m not sure if that’s medical science or the ramblings of a man who spent too long watching Fox & Friends at full volume.
And then there’s the ego. Oh, the ego.
This is a man who once described himself as “the most humble person you will ever meet,” which is something no genuinely humble person has ever said. He refers to himself in the third person more than the King of England. He demands loyalty not to country, or law, or truth – but to Trump. Always Trump. Only Trump.
His speeches are an exercise in chaos theory. Start on immigration, veer into a story about his uncle from Geschlachtenbretzingen (which he can’t even pronounce), detour through “fake news,” then land on how everyone is saying he’s never looked better. If Trump’s rhetoric were a GPS, you’d end up in a lake.
Let’s not forget his approach to diplomacy – the man who fell in love with Kim Jong-un, shouted at NATO, ghosted the G7, and took a Sharpie to a hurricane map. He sees the presidency not as a responsibility but as a ratings battle. If the White House had a revolving door, it would have been spinning faster than his take on whether Russia ever interfered with anything.
Domestically? Trump’s idea of “law and order” involved using tear gas on peaceful protesters so he could tweet that he just saved Los Angeles. He brags about tax cuts for billionaires while average families struggle with healthcare costs, student debt, and the existential dread of having him in charge of the nuclear codes.
He talks about “draining the swamp,” then fills his administration with cronies, lobbyists, family members, and the occasional guy who looks like he wandered off a yacht named The Impeachment.
He made cruelty fashionable again. He ridiculed the disabled, demeaned women, insulted war heroes, and branded journalists “the enemy of the people.” If empathy were a resource, Trump would sell it off in a no-bid contract to a private equity firm named “Big Greed Inc.”
But the newest reason I don’t like Donald Trump?
It’s not because he’s conservative. It’s not because he’s rich. It’s not even because he talks like a reality TV host who drank too much Red Bull before the cameras rolled.
It’s because he makes everything about him – even democracy.
I believe in public service. He believes in self-service. I believe in leadership. He believes in showmanship. I believe the job of a president is to bring out the best in a country.
He brings out the worst – with confidence, volume, and zero shame.
And no, I don’t admire the golf swing either.
PS: “Why haven’t you mentioned dogs?”, you ask. “They’re in the title”, you say. There’s a simple explanation: That’s just me being Trumpish – not following the script.
Also by Roswell:
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Some cannot see it, for they are so themselves, dogshittily deluded, incapably infantile, cranially crappy, dismally dishonest, cloacally clogged, attitudinally atrophied, morally moribund, insistently insincere, with scumskulled skunkery in their scones, and hard harlotty hearts.
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln but given meaning by Donald Trump
“I believe in public service. He believes in self-service.”
Love it.
Glad you like it, Perry.
Another shit hot article, Roswell.Funny, tragic and depressing..all at the same time.My pessimism is red lining.
Harry, you have jumped to top spot on my list of favourite commenters. Before that, I had myself in top spot – never ever thought I’d be beaten.
In another episode (#1037 of the series) of ‘Things that are so bizarre that they couldn’t be made up’, the Guardian reports that wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers. Putting aside my natural affiliation for all things macropod, and stating for the record that this does not gain endorsement of US lawmakers who go all gooey over these lovely animals, what’s more to the point, the salient issue, is how they can give voice to criticise the endorsed harvesting of Skips – which, to be clear, have benefited enormously per their breeding behaviour by the construction of thousands of permanent water points across the continent – and yet at the same time remain mute in regard to the ongoing brutal genocide of the Palestinians at the hands of the utterly pathological IDF. Barely a peep from the US lawmakers, who, to be clear, have much more at stake than complaining about the wanton slaughter of an entire race of humans, inasmuch as their beloved relationships with the Jewish lobby and the armaments manufacturers who keep the thousands of dollars in emoluments rolling into those deep lawmaker pockets need to be protected and burnished.
And while on the subject of ‘needlessly cruel’.. a rich topic with bountiful examples; how about stripping MedicAid from millions of middle & lower-income Americans? Or food aid, ditto? Or crimping/diminishing educational opportunities for children? Or allowing the sale of handguns & rifles to almost anyone, many of whom go on to then kill their fellow citizens, often in large numbers? Or Trumps’ tariffs? That blighted nation of desperadoes has dozens & dozens of domestic examples of ‘needlessly cruel,’ but no, let’s look a Skip-harvesting on another country.
The pointed spray by Fransesca Albanese in her latest report to UNHRC has been followed by a spray on Netanyahu’s political Israel & T-Rump’s political USA by Amnesty International controversial Israeli- and US-backed system to distribute aid in Gaza uses starvation tactics against Palestinians to continue to commit genocide.
Throughout their history, US lawmakers have been deceivers and money raking minions to corrupt power. Today more than ever, they are mercenaries to wealth, power and greed. They have either inherited or opted for minds committed to erring on the side of evil.
Nothing they promulgate can be trusted, as invariably it’s a diversion from the murderous, thieving, culture-crushing and environment destroying realities their masters enact.
wow, Roswell, you describe trump as 10 men. All of them incompetent.
Yeah, he’ll wait for the weather to settle down so it won’t mess up his beautiful hair. Friday? Doesn’t he usually piss off to belt a small white ball with a stick and cheat on Thusday afternoons?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5387111-trump-probably-visit-texas-friday/
Meanwhile back home Clakka,the reaction to the attempted torching of a Synagogue in Melbourne demonstrates the unhealthy grip on weak kneed politicians that the Zionist lobby has.
No doubt Bibi the Butcher has activated his sleeper ferrets in Australia.
Harry
I see that the opposition have called on Albanese to convene an urgent meeting of national cabinet to deal with antisemitism.
Could I suggest that it may be more productive if Australia together with the UN, the US and other likeminded nations, particularly those Arab nations in the Middle East, prevail upon Netanyahu to immediately stop the bombing of Gaza and the indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians.
The problem is not antisemitism it is Bibi the butcher enthusiastically encouraged and assisted by Trump.
Exactly, Terry.The Opposition, such as it is, have never seen an issue that they won’t exploit for division,aided and abetted by their brainless media foghorns.It is really tiresome,predictable and insulting garbage.
I see the LNP is going into a paroxysm of stunned shock that Albo wants to have Australian foreign policy independence free of being the little worshipful doggy that slobbers joyfully all over the ‘merican hands that pat us whenever we do what they want. The LNP have been attached leechlike to the to the US bum cheeks for so long they can’t imagine us not being the almost 52nd State.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-australia-first-words-that-sussan-ley-says-are-a-threat-to-the-us-relationship-20250706-p5mcve.html