What an impossibly ungracious man he is, really. It’s not news, of course, but he does somehow have the ability to be so uncouth, so impolite, that it really takes your breath away.
You can dress Donald Trump up, you can present him as some kind of semi-functioning human being, you can sane-wash his policies so that they look more normal than they really are. You can do all these things, but he will always perform down to the very basest expectation you can imagine of him.
The really pertinent aspect of Trump’s United Nations (UN) speech yesterday was not how dangerous it was, but how pitiful. You felt your toes curl in embarrassment for any Americans who still maintained a sense of their country’s better nature.
All of the political dynamics melted into the air and you were just left with your root social reaction: how utterly cringe-worthy this is. How mortifying.
The US President spent last week being feted by the British establishment. They pulled out all the stops – glamorous banquets, guards of honour, carriage rides, Red Arrows displays. It was considered a worthwhile price to pay for some potential geopolitical leverage.
Trump was polite in response, offering all the usual platitudes about the “special relationship”. At the banquet, he said the US and UK were like “two notes in one chord” – a bog-standard Hallmark line, but one which is obviously far too elegant to have originated in his mind and was most likely written for him. Regardless, it must have really pained him to say these pretty, pleasant things, to be so restrained, to not be able to express his jagged, petulant thoughts for days at a time.
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Yesterday, at the UN, the dam finally broke. Like a child who’d had to behave himself at someone’s house, he let it all out in the car on the way home, screaming and crying out the window. “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor,” he said. “It’s been changed, it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law.” Then he moved on to Net Zero. “I want to stop seeing them ruining that beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels that go seven miles by seven miles,” he cried.
Trump seemingly hates Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan for the same reason all the far-right keyboard warriors do: because he is a living refutation of their world view. He demonstrates that Islam can easily coexist with western society. He celebrates gay pride. He celebrates Chanukah. He celebrates Eid. And by doing so, he shows that there is no contradiction between these activities.
Trump appears to hate London for the same reason he appears to hate Chicago and Los Angeles and wants to flood them with the national guard, like some kind of invading army. Multicultural cities are an affront to the far-right. They prove that people can get along regardless of their heritage. They reject the nativist world view, which insists that cultures are damaged by coexistence. They are, without fail, the most successful regions of the countries they exist in – not despite their mixture, but because of it.
Trump says London has been “so changed”, but in fact, London has been like this for a very long time. The London he is speaking about existed only in his imagination – a white place, for white people, living white lives. If London ever did look how Trump wants it to, it would be because this country had ceased to exist in any modern context at all, degrading into a Disneyland of the past, the version of itself which most suits the passing nostalgia of American reactionaries.
On the face of it, this is all standard-issue Trump. There’s nothing new here. But nevertheless, the speech was a terrible missed opportunity for mockery and one which UN delegates wasted.
They should have laughed at him. This was a prime chance for mockery and one which UN delegates wasted. It’s what he deserved. It’s the level of seriousness this kind of rhetoric invites. And yet – outside of scattered bemused reactions – they failed to do it.
Six years ago, there was some very minor laughter during a Trump speech. This has now blown up in the telling and is presented as if the entire hall shook its ribs as one. Today’s coverage, therefore, plays on the change in how Trump is perceived – a take which delights the right-wing press and has been adopted wholesale by its more credulous mainstream counterparts.
“Trump was met with derisory laughter when he addressed the general assembly back in 2018,” the Spectator said, whipping itself into a sense of constructed schadenfreude. “Not so yesterday. Delegates sat in stunned silence… The last laugh, indeed.” The Telegraph entertained a similar sense of delight. “No one is laughing at Trump now,” it said.
The BBC coverage was indistinguishable from this claptrap, framed in a way to make Trump seem as powerful and influential as possible. “Six years ago, Trump’s UN audience laughed,” it said, “this year they were silent.” Politico took the same approach, saying: “No one’s laughing at Trump at the UN this year.”
Honestly, it would have been much better if the delegates had laughed. When you strip away this type of coverage, with all its mock seriousness and sense of destiny, Trump appears as he is – just a sad little man, as incapable of expressing a coherent thought as he is of being a gracious guest. He is lost in the outer reaches of his garbled mind, occasionally stumbling into seemingly racist fantasies about a London that never existed, barely refraining from insulting the people whose house he sleeps in.
Britain should not be annoyed by his absence of common decency, any more than the UN should be offended by his tirade of Islamophobic commentaries. We would do better to mock him instead, as the joke he truly is. That is the level of response he deserves.
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