The Flying Circus of Trump

Donald Trump's enormous, and sadly proven, destructive capacity does not deprive him of an undeniable comic flair. It works, however, in reverse: when Trump thinks he's funny, he's not funny at all, because all his supposed humor is based on denigrating people or institutions that generally cannot defend themselves, and also on that deceptive resource of the coarsest people which consists of wanting to be politically incorrect (according to them, “you can’t say anything anymore”, but, on the other hand, we hear and read them every single day). Instead, when he doesn't try to be funny, his own grotesque nature makes Trump capable of making us laugh.This is what happened again during the White House Correspondents' Dinner and the attempted attack that the current president of the USA supposedly suffered again, events that, instead of the gravity of a drama, had the ingredients of a comic opera. Journalist Antonia Hitchens, from the New Yorker, for example, tells it with the relaxed tone of someone who has witnessed a farce and not a moment of grave crisis for democratic institutions. The same correspondents' dinner, in fact, is a custom that, over the years, has acquired a certain ceremonial air, but which above all is based on good humor: it is precisely for this reason that Trump had avoided it until now, because his spoiled child attitude cannot tolerate jokes or criticism. He can insult, threaten, or ridicule, but if someone upsets him or makes fun of him, his reaction is to get angry and make a scene. This is what happened the day after the incident, when journalist Norah O'Donnell, from CBS, read Trump a fragment of the manifesto that the supposed terrorist, a certain Cole Thomas Allen, had made public before attempting to shoot him and in which he accused the Republican leader of being a rapist, a pedophile, and a traitor. Trump's reaction was to explode in anger at the journalist and insult her gravely in front of the same camera (when, until that moment, he had been playing the part of the understanding, and even compassionate, leader who, when attacked, worries about people's well-being). The effect, in this case, was one of unintentional comedy, in the style of Airplane!.However, whether true or part of a setup to try to boost Trump's very low popularity, the shooter's words were very presumably true: Trump has already been convicted of diverting campaign funds to pay for the sexual services of a pornographic actress, and the indications that he may be a rapist and pedophile are numerous and consistent. Almost all analyses of Trump's role in conflicts such as Gaza, Venezuela, or Iran include the current US president's need to distract public opinion from the scandals that weigh on him, starting with the Epstein case. As for the accusation of treason, there is no need to doubt it: he is merely a parasite of the homeland, like so many others who boast of patriotism. In the USA and everywhere else.