Donald Trump Hates His Government

Published in Frankfurter Rundschau
(Germany) on 25 December 2015
by Daniel Haufler (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Ron Argentati. Edited by Danielle Tezcan.

 

 

Donald Trump, running for the office of president of the United States, has again clearly stepped beyond the boundaries of good taste. Nobody could possibly want the America he idealizes.

Let's assume the best. Because it's Christmas, after all. Given that fact, perhaps Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump didn't really say that Hillary Clinton had been “schlonged” – which essentially means she was attacked with a penis – during the TV debate between Democratic candidates. No, he probably just misspoke where he really wanted to say “shellacked,” which is American slang for “beaten up.” Trump had already had difficulty pronouncing that word as far back as 2010 in an address to Congress and this time it just came out as “schlonged.”

On the other hand, maybe he intended to say exactly what the majority understood – and what goes over so well with his fans. The more viciously he attacks the political establishment in Washington, the higher his approval ratings go. Anti-government sentiment in conservative areas had already done the spadework. Like Berlusconi in Italy, Trump represents a philosophy of exclusion and self-enrichment. Social equality and peace exist neither in his vocabulary nor in his beliefs. People in their right minds can't possibly want such an America and it's good that it will never come to that: In a presidential election, Clinton would give Donald Trump the shellacking of his life.


Donald Trumps Staatsfeindschaft
Von DANIEL HAUFLER

Der Präsidentschaftskandidat der Republikaner, Donald Trump, hat einmal mehr die Grenzen des guten Geschmacks deutlich überschritten. Ein Amerika, wie er es sich vorstellt, kann niemand wollen.

Nehmen wir einmal das Beste an. Weil Weihnachten ist. Dies vorausgesetzt hat Donald Trump, der Bewerber um die US-Präsidentschaftskandidatur der Republikaner, vielleicht doch nicht gesagt, dass Hillary Clinton bei der TV-Debatte der demokratischen Kandidaten „schlonged“ worden sei, was so viel heißt wie „mit dem Penis geschlagen“. Nein, er hat sich eventuell versprochen und wollte „shellacked“ sagen, was wiederum „vermöbelt“ bedeutet. Trump hatte womöglich wie schon 2010 in einem Kommentar zu den Kongress-Wahlen Schwierigkeiten, das Slang-Wort shellacked richtig auszusprechen, so dass daraus schlonged wurde.

Womöglich wollte er aber das sagen, was die Mehrheit verstanden hat und bei seiner Klientel gut ankommt. Je schärfer er das politische Establishment in Washington angreift, desto höher steigen seine Umfragewerte. Die in konservativen Kreisen verbreitete Staatsfeindschaft hat den Boden bereitet. Wie einst Berlusconi in Italien vertritt Trump in den USA eine Philosophie der Ausgrenzung und Selbstbereicherung. Sozialer Ausgleich und gesellschaftlicher Frieden existieren weder in seinem Vokabular noch in seinen Vorstellungen. Dieses Amerika kann sich kein vernünftiger Mensch wünschen. Gut nur, dass es dazu nie kommen wird, weil Clinton bei der Präsidentschaftswahl Trump so richtig shellacken wird.
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