By César Chelala
June 06, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" -
Donald
Trump achieved the dream of his life: He
became a President’s impersonator. Several
excellent comedians have proven to be
excellent impersonators of celebrities,
among them Tina Fey, Rich Little, Jim
Carrey, and Robin Williams. Not one to be
topped, Donald Trump decided to impersonate
a President.
Impersonating another person is a relatively
common phenomenon. In New York City, it is
estimated that the police arrests about 100
suspects annually for impersonating a police
officer.
By becoming an impersonator, and not
believing himself to be the real thing,
President Trump can say that he is not
responsible for the multitude of inane
tweets his impersonator has been writing
since he became President, which now seem to
be coming out of him at an even faster pace.
The latest tweets reveal a feud between
actress Bette Midler and him.
The origin of the feud is a quote that she
attributed to him and that she shared with
her 1.53 million Twitter followers that
said, “If I were to run, I’d run as a
Republican. They’re the dumbest group of
voters in the country. They believe anything
on Fox News. I could lie and they’d still
eat it up. I bet my numbers would be
terrific.”
After Midler shared the quote it was proved
to be a fake. When she realized her mistake,
Midler tweeted, “I apologize; turns out to
be a fake from way back in ’15-16. Don’t
know how I missed it, but it sounds SO much
like him that I believed it was true!”
Trump responded with characteristic
acerbity. He called Midler a “washed-up
psycho” who “was forced to apologize for a
statement she attributed to me that turned
out to be totally fabricated by her in order
to make ‘your great president’ look really
bad. She got caught, just like the Fake News
Media gets caught. A sick scammer!”
The reader cannot fail to have read the
words in the paragraph before ‘your great
president,’ as if Trump was referring to
another person, not to himself. Anybody else
in a similar situation would have written,
“…in order to make me look bad.” Not Donald
Trump in his role as an impersonator. The
president, in this case, believes he is
clearly somebody else, not President Donald
Trump.
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Mr. Trump’s behavior seems to be taking a
turn for the worst. According to The New
York Times, there are 598 people, places and
things that Mr. Trump has insulted on
Twitter alone since declaring his candidacy
in June 2015, a list that is current until
May 24 and doesn’t include the last two
weeks.
The feud with Bette Midler happens shortly
after his continuing feud with former
Senator John McCain, who died on August 15,
2018. While continuously disparaging him,
Donald Trump seems to forget that while
McCain was in captivity, he obtained five
medical deferments not to go to Vietnam.
According to Trump, they were due to some
bone spurs he had in his feet. Those spurs,
that a New York Times investigation proved
to have been faked, didn’t stop him from
practicing three different sports at the
time: baseball, tennis, and squash. And
while McCain was undergoing torture in
Vietnam, Trump was a well-known figure on
New York social circles.
It is possible that his impersonating a
President comes from a profound feeling of
insecurity of not having able to measure up
to a real hero. How else to explain his
vitriol against a person who has been dead
for almost a year?
Never before in recent history has an
American President been as questioned about
his mental health and his capacity to hold
office as Mr. Trump. His erratic behavior
has prompted some Democrats to urge their
colleagues to get behind an impeachment
process that could potentially oust
President Trump from office should it be
proven that he is mentally or physically
unfit. Donald Trump has decided to
impersonate a President. And the world is
paying for it.
Dr. César Chelala is a winner of several journalism awards.
The original source of this article is Information Clearing House
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