There’s a strange existential *thereness* to his rhetoric… one minute he’s making up stuff that isn’t true, another he’s reading things he has no idea the meaning of, and another he’s just saying things he think might be neat.
I did not watch this, and have no intention of doing so, but after a decade or more of watching Trump be the late political version of Trump (which is different from the Apprentice version of Trump, and very different from the 80s/90s tabloid celebrity version of Trump), I have a pretty good idea of how it must have gone. And I totally get what you mean about the "existential thereness." Though he's a New Yorker through and through, it reminds me a great deal of my redneck southern friends and relatives back home, whose storytelling might be described as meandering by someone who isn't paying close enough attention to see the logic and the through-line. Sure, some of the digressions seem like little more than flights of ideas, but they contribute to the mood of the story in a way that shouldn't be underestimated. And besides, sometimes it's just important to remind people that Bubba really hates Kevin who lives down the street just past the old church that's not there anymore.
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There’s a strange existential *thereness* to his rhetoric… one minute he’s making up stuff that isn’t true, another he’s reading things he has no idea the meaning of, and another he’s just saying things he think might be neat.
I did not watch this, and have no intention of doing so, but after a decade or more of watching Trump be the late political version of Trump (which is different from the Apprentice version of Trump, and very different from the 80s/90s tabloid celebrity version of Trump), I have a pretty good idea of how it must have gone. And I totally get what you mean about the "existential thereness." Though he's a New Yorker through and through, it reminds me a great deal of my redneck southern friends and relatives back home, whose storytelling might be described as meandering by someone who isn't paying close enough attention to see the logic and the through-line. Sure, some of the digressions seem like little more than flights of ideas, but they contribute to the mood of the story in a way that shouldn't be underestimated. And besides, sometimes it's just important to remind people that Bubba really hates Kevin who lives down the street just past the old church that's not there anymore.