President Trump

Donald Trump is Henry VIII. There's a new movie coming out "Firebrand" with Jude Law as the monstrous egomaniac king, told though the eyes of his sixth and last wife Catherine Parr. BBC website has a good preview; it shows that both Law and the film's director base their take on Henry partly on what they see in Trump - the abuse of power, a readiness to use violence against those who disagreed with him, how he was physically and emotionally abusive to all his wives, not just the two he murdered, Henry often jamming his fingers into a woman's mouth "whenever he felt like it." For mouth, read pu**y, of course. This revisionist and feminist view of the Tudor tyrant has been around in historical scholarship for quite a while - see Karen Lindsey's Divorced, Beheaded, Survived for example - but it gains added resonance from having a modern political figure similarly bloated in both body and ego to compare it to. Coincidentally last week I watched A Man For All Seasons (1966) again, with Robert Shaw as Henry, and it struck me then how much Trump resembles him. Shaw is astonishing in the scene where he berates Thomas More (Paul Scofield), alternating between wild rage ("No opposition, no opposition, I say!"), paranoid suspicion of those around him, and exaggerated praise of his own many talents - as a musician, in this particular scene. Trump is recognizable at every turn and is only missing the gangrenous leg that Henry dragged around for the last years of his life.
 
According to scholars like Popok it seems that sentencing will go ahead on the 18th after Merchon's hearing two days before. So potentially another hammer blow to Von Shitzenpants' campaign.
 
I'm not a fan by any stretch but I thought this interview was quite a good insight into the man. Hopefully Lex gets to interview more politicians and former politicians.

 
Irwell said:
I'm not a fan by any stretch but I thought this interview was quite a good insight into the man. Hopefully Lex gets to interview more politicians and former politicians.

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Seems he’s doing lots of YouTube interviews at the moment as mainstream is to hard for him, I hope to god he loses and he just fucks off to jail
 
AliBobbyJ said:
Donald Trump is Henry VIII. There's a new movie coming out "Firebrand" with Jude Law as the monstrous egomaniac king, told though the eyes of his sixth and last wife Catherine Parr. BBC website has a good preview; it shows that both Law and the film's director base their take on Henry partly on what they see in Trump - the abuse of power, a readiness to use violence against those who disagreed with him, how he was physically and emotionally abusive to all his wives, not just the two he murdered, Henry often jamming his fingers into a woman's mouth "whenever he felt like it." For mouth, read pu**y, of course. This revisionist and feminist view of the Tudor tyrant has been around in historical scholarship for quite a while - see Karen Lindsey's Divorced, Beheaded, Survived for example - but it gains added resonance from having a modern political figure similarly bloated in both body and ego to compare it to. Coincidentally last week I watched A Man For All Seasons (1966) again, with Robert Shaw as Henry, and it struck me then how much Trump resembles him. Shaw is astonishing in the scene where he berates Thomas More (Paul Scofield), alternating between wild rage ("No opposition, no opposition, I say!"), paranoid suspicion of those around him, and exaggerated praise of his own many talents - as a musician, in this particular scene. Trump is recognizable at every turn and is only missing the gangrenous leg that Henry dragged around for the last years of his life.
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I think the only point I’d make as a slight counterpoint is that by the time he married Catherine Parr, Henry was completely shot mentally. I don’t mean clinically insane, like Trump probably is (although Henry probably was) but in the sense that the fight had gone out of him, beaten down by years of misfortune and, as you suggest, his puss-riddled leg which had become unbearably painful.

Whatever you say about Trump, he still has some fight in him, partly for reasons of self preservation, and Henry, of course, didn’t have the benefit of contemporary medicine and stimulants to ameliorate his condition and to accentuate that fight.
 
Irwell said:
I'm not a fan by any stretch but I thought this interview was quite a good insight into the man. Hopefully Lex gets to interview more politicians and former politicians.

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Watched up to about thirteen minutes (might watch more later) and he doesn’t challenge him enough on his answers, with particular reference to the questions on Ukraine. Think the index questions are decent enough, but he doesn’t challenge his responses.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Watched up to about thirteen minutes (might watch more later) and he doesn’t challenge him enough on his answers, with particular reference to the questions on Ukraine. Think the index questions are decent enough, but he doesn’t challenge his responses.
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Thats a flaw that almost 100% of political interviewers have these days. The word "why" as a question is overlooked and under used. Instead of letting politicians spout their bullshit unchallenged just ask them "and why would that be" and watch the flounder. Oh and that way you make it an interview not a monologue
 
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