Essay on “Donald Trump: Terrostic Man-Toddler”
Would mockery really make Trump disappear? One might get this thought, when reading the essay ”Donald Trump: Terroristic Man-Toddler”. It is written by Charles M. Blow and was published in The New York Times in October 2016. His intention with the text is to mock Trump
Already from reading the title, we know this is not going to be a tribute to Donald Trump. Blow describes Trump very negatively throughout the essay and calls him a “Terroristic Man-Toddler”, “Brat” and “Domestic Terrorist”, and that is just a small selection of the words he uses. Is clear from the start that Trump is characterized very negatively and one-sided. Trump is multiple times compared to a child or a toddler “Go to your
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The adults need to pick a president”. You get the impression that Trump is a spoiled brat, who won’t admit defeat “This is the kind of childish person who, when losing, flips over the board and yells insults at his family,…”. At the same time, he is also portrayed as bigot, who is both sexist and racist. In the essay, we hear about three times Trump was sexist, because he objectified women and a 12 year old child, which is sort of pedophilic. He admits that he would want to date his daughter, if she wasn’t his daughter “This is the same man who marveled on television about his daughter Ivanka’s “very nice figure” and mused, “I’ve said that if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her”” . Relating to this, Blow questioned Trumps audacity to call out Hillary Clinton’s husband past, when Trump himself has so many skeletons in his closet “That man is lecturing someone …show more content…
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