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As always, all one needs to do is pretend that Trump is an unusually tall and bald five-year-old, and what he says and does makes perfect sense.
Only if the 5 year old spent those 5 years eating lead paint. In a meth lab. While on meth.
You are being deeply and unreasonably unfair to five-year-olds. The ones I've met tend to be curious, happy, utterly inclusive and considerably more coherent than the orange one.
True.
I need to think of a concise way to frame that, because he's not like any five-year-old - he's like Donald Trump as a five-year-old.
Yes - most five-year-olds are the way you describe. But there's that one who not only refuses to share, but yanks toys he doesn't even want away from the other kids just so they can't have them, who throws tantrums over pretty much anything and everything, who can't be trusted with anything delicate or complicated because he'll get mad and break it when he can't figure out how to work it, who kicks the backs of airline seats and throws screaming fits in the middle of stores, who steals anything he can get his hands on and lies brazenly when he gets caught...
That's the five-year-old Trump was, and still is.
I'm really not sure there are any shortcuts here, he is such a uniquely awful human being that any comparison will fall short. He's not the most evil person in the world, he's not the most racist, or the most homophobic, he isn't the thinnest skinned and he's not the most selfish or vindictive or vain, but he only loses out in any category by the smallest of margins. I fear that trying to find a yardstick to measure him by that encompasses all of the negatives is a vain errand, and in future he will be the yardstick we measure others of such a veanal and contemptible nature.