Trumpty Dumpty is busy this Sunday afternoon posting on Truth Social, which is his personal tabloid, all Trump, all the time. He loves it. Wags who predicted that he couldn’t resist the siren call of Twitter turned out to be wrong.
And make no mistake, Trump wants to expand the idea of all Trump all the time. He has stated in no uncertain terms that if only “failing” CNN would make itself the Trump Channel, it would do great.
Trump uses Truth Social as a means to cope with his fear, and the posts that he chooses to post soothe him. Listen to his biographer, David Cay Johnston, explain how Trump can’t process fear and so he does it by raving on Truth Social. The interview starts at 4:00 in.
One of Trump’s most recent posts is a link to an article on something called PJ Media. I won’t link to it, but you can get the link from Truth Social if you want. It starts out with this quote from Gulliver’s Travels and then continues the analogy that you, me, the prosecutors, all of us, are the Lilliputians.
I saw a tiny man standing on my chest! He was about as big as my thumb, no more than 15 centimeters tall. In his hands, he held a bow and arrows. I felt many more little men crawling over me. In astonishment, I shouted very loudly, “Get off me, you insects.”
—Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
The article goes on.
In effect, the political and cultural war raging in the country is really an internecine conflict between big people, people of courage, moral principle, and derring-do who fight for truth and justice and little people who lie for a living, steeped in ideology, and wedded to career at the cost of decency, conscience, far-sightedness, and moral substance. One thinks of Jonathan Swift’s Lilliputians, a race of homunculi whose only strength resides in cunning, corruption, and, obviously, in numbers. Numbers are a critical factor; the little people are almost infinite in their multitudes, while the big people are comparatively few.
We see the moral and cognitive size dimension playing itself out on the current political scene, both collectively and, in particular, in the storm following the indictment of Donald Trump. When we examine the ranks of diminutive souls, it is obvious that Biden is a little man. (The “big guy” laptop designation is a cynical joke.) Mayorkas is a little man. Garland is a little man. Bragg, notwithstanding his corpulent presence, is a very little man. Trump, love him or hate him, is a big man, now in the throes of the effort of a horde of Lilliputians to tie him down on the flimsiest of pretexts — as Swift writes, “Although the ropes were very thin, like thread, there were hundreds of them.”
The little men will do everything in their power to shame or imprison the former president. Nothing is beyond the arts and intentions of little men, not propriety, not ethical principle, and certainly not the Rule of Law. Were Swift alive today to cover the scene, he would have had a field day writing about a tribe of runts attempting to constrain a comparative giant. But the giant generally wins in the end.
Despite the Democrat well-oiled cheat machine operated by an insectal swarm of dandiprat liars, cowards, and dwarfs, “no more than 15 centimeters tall,” Trump will be the next president of the United States. Gnats and midges may proliferate and cause havoc and harm, but you can’t keep a big man down.
“Gnats and midges [sic] may proliferate and cause havoc and harm, but you can’t keep a big man down.” I don’t know if I like that better than, “the Democrat well-oiled cheat machine operated by an insectal swarm of dandiprat liars, cowards, and dwarfs.” Shall we take a vote? “Forsooth, sir, you are a dandiprat, part of an insectal swarm of same.” (slaps opponent with a glove) This is the caliber of writing talent that MAGA blogs attract, evidently. Plus, this just proves Stormy Daniels right, Trump can’t abide being called Tiny.
But Trump loves this piece. He’s the big guy. We’re the insectal swarm. Has anybody ever sent Trump a copy of War Of The Worlds, I wonder, where a race of giants is taken down by a few bacteria? That might get things in proper perspective for him. You’re going down, Donald, just like the tripods. Down, down, down.
[Image by Olga Hoffmann, Gulliver Trump in the Land Of Lilliputians]
Ursula, you find some scary stuff. What is the scariest is that our country has so many people that live in ‘Up is Down Land’. The ones that don’t live in UDL are constantly discombobulated by the absurdity of these people. This country needs a crash course in the history of fascism and all the similarities with the history of the Americas, from Canada to Argentina.
As a former English major, allow me to inform them.that TRUMP is the little man, always has been. He only got as far as he has because Fred gave him.A “small.loan” of a million or so, then bailed him out of his 6 (SIX) bankruptcies. Those failures were the result of his be setting sin:r.refusing to.listen to.experts who told hom.his casinos were on the wrong place and had insufficient parking g for tour buses. Sorta the way he refuses to listen to his own lawyers. Those attorneys know Rudy lost his law license,, and are unlikely to.desire to follow in his footsteps.