I saw the HuffPost lead story photo (right) and thought "this man loves to yell" and was tempted to find more photos of him to put together a montage and write about how demagogic he was.
Has there ever been a president of this country who yells like this? I say "this country" because I can think of leaders prior to World War Two whose yelling at crowds is well-known (hint, it was't FDR and Churchill).
It is disturbing, to say the least, that so many people in 2019 find this kind of behavior not just acceptable (the congressional Republicans for example) but engaging.
You don’t have to be a therapist like me to theorize that lots of his supporters are very angry and Trump is their ultimate authority figure role model. After all the expression of anger at its most extreme is glamorized in entertainment from movies to video games.
I bet that a violent video game with Trump as the sword or machine gun wielding “hero” would be a best seller.
How many Trumpers leave a rally and go home and yell at their friends and family? Why not, the president of the United States does it?
I found that someone else did the photo finding work for me last summer:
This is what Mashable had to say about the 11 photos they have in their story:
Nothing Donald Trump does is subtle, especially when speaking in public.
Whether it's shouting declarations about making America "great again" or yelling something a bit more derogatory towards someone he doesn't like (the press, our foreign allies, whoever hasn't given him his way recently), Trump is never not emphatic. The man loves to yell.
Very, very loudly.
It is interestng how the meaning of demagogue has changed. In ancient Greece and Rome it refeered to a leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people, for example the Athenian demagogues had definite and valuable functions within the state. Today it means a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument. With Trump his arguments aren’t merely irrational, they are lies.
Donald Trump is nothing more than a carnival barker indicing the rubes to believe his lies who has been elevated to a position of extraordinary power. At the carnival the worst that can happen is that the gullible will waste their dollar to see the two-headed mermaid. In the real world of Trump politics the worst has already happened, the rubes have elected a criminal as a president who is taking a sledge hammer to our democracy.
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On May 8, 2016 I wrote Donald Trump’s Pandemonium Shadow Show. It turned out to be prescient. Six months later he was the president-elect of the United States.