IDIOTIC TIMES

 

The more idiots you have the more chance there is for an idiotic culture, an idiotic mindset and an idiotic leader. 

Case in point Donald Trump; he doesn't even appear to be an idiot savant, just an idiot. The Hollywood community don't like him. The two actors held as, probably, the best living actors have been vocal in their dislike of the man, and Trump's assertion that Streep is an average actor does little to challenge his credentials as an idiot.

The reason I mention the Hollywood Community is that in America they are pretty much the only thing they have that comes close to an elite establishment that people listen to (rightly or wrongly). The irony that Trump, the arch showman, should be vilified by those who perform for a living should not be lost. Perhaps they can see through his man of the people, certain people that is, persona for the bad actor that he is.

When popular culture recognises an idiot for being an idiot you know that there is something wrong. Most creative people in the US don't like him, be that in the arts, music TV or cinema. I cannot recall a. sitting President having shows like The Good Fight, The Comey Rule and The Trump Show actively point out their failings; its pretty much unprecedented (see what I did there?). Most vitriol for Presidents has been presented in dramatic and documentary form after that President has left the White House.

In popular culture terms Trump is an Andy Warhol of a political leader; he seems like a piece of performance art. He is a Mr Magoo of a President, stumbling from one bad situation to the next, he's a less trustworthy Chauncey Gardiner without the charm, a Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

Trump has proved that Pop will, and does eat itself and I can only conclude that Trump got in to power in the first place because he was just the right idiot in the right idiotic place at the right idiotic time