George Johnson

Quincy Jones, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, 1964. Photo by David Sutton.

Donald Trump is a mean, mad, cruel, sad, pompous, puny, lonely, loony, horrible, terrible, no-good, very bad, dippy, disturbed, dopey, deranged, distorted, demented, delirious, delusional, MAGAlomaniac, psychopathic, sociopathic, lead-the-whole-world-down-the-garden-pathic, egoistic, egotistic, narcisstic, solipsistic, chauvinistic, jingoistic, nihilstic, terroristic, antagonistic, opportunistic, animalistic, cannibalistic (unproven), racist, sexist, classist, ableist, isolationist, segregationist, white supremacist, homophobic, transphobic, galeophobic, bathmophobic, shameless, shameful, pitiless, pitiful, helpless, hurtful, friendless, foeful, serial defaulting, sexual assaulting, criminally addicted, thirty-four-count convicted, justice obstructor and document-hoarder and subject of court order after court order, buck-passing, bus-throwing, dog-whistling, fear-sowing, race-baiting, rage-stirring, all-hating, omni-slurring, spirit-crushing, money-hushing, secrets-blabbing, pussy-grabbing, climate-denying, Putin-complying, fast-food-scarfing, soda-snarfing, slush-fund-diverting, Epstein-frequenting, Kim Jong Un-flirting, NATO-dissenting, tchotchke-shilling self-styled Messiah, diplomacy-killing global-pariah, rebellion-provoking, complicity-cloaking, coup-stoking, bear-poking, election-losing, falsely-accusing, republic-destroying, Giuliani-employing, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, designing, dissembling, duplicitous, dubious, devious, untrusted, untruthful, treacherous, treasonous, Roget’s-thesaurus-exhaustingly traitorous, awful, unlawful, eats-crow-by-the-jawful, vain, insane, got-rocks-in-the-brain, hypocritical, parasitical, horrible-stain-on-the-body-political, bullying, bullying, bullying, stop bullying!, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-concerned, self-important, self-obsessed, self-conceited, self-involved, self-regarding, self-seeking, self-serving, self-defeating, self-fulfilling, apparently self-loving, actually self-loathing, abusive, befuddled, corrupting, destructive, embittered, fallacious, grotesque, horrendous, indignant, judgmental, kowtowing, lethargic, malicious, neurotic, obnoxious, pathetic, quick-tempered, resentful, sadistic, tormented, upsetting, vindictive, washed-up, xenophobic, yammering, zombified, awkwardly autocratic, fecklessly fascist, totally-not-ready-for-totalitarianism, strongman except for the strong part, Mussolini without the muscle, Needy Amin, intellectually bankrupt, spiritually bankrupt, morally bankrupt, literally bankrupt, leather-jerkined, crystal-buttoned, knot-pated, caddis-gartered, sodden-witted, elvish-marked, rumbumptious, disloyal, unworthy, discouraging, unhappy, dismissive, unpleasant, disdainful, unhealthy, disinterested, uncaring, disorganized, unfeeling, rage-tweeting, misspelling, ALL CAPS ABUSING!, flat-footed, weak-kneed, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, stony-hearted, tiny-handed, sticky-fingered, “yeti-pubed”, “toadstool-penised”, thin-skinned, cold-blooded, bone-unspurred, stiff-necked, bald-faced, slack-jawed, double-tongued, foul-mouthed, snot-nosed, shifty-eyed, beetle-browed, soft-brained, narrow-minded, where-do-you-even-begin-haired, wolfish, boorish, waspish, sheepish, apeish, piggish, sluggish, slothful, catty, fishy, squirrely, weaselly, snake, skunk, cuckoo, chicken, one-term, twice-impeached, three-far-right-Justice-appointing, four-time indicted, Fifth Amendment-cowering, six-time insolvent, G7-detested, eight-year-term-limited, 9/11-valor-stealing, Ten Commandments-exploiting, Chapter Elevened, 12-member-jury convicted, angry, broken, clueless, dreary, eerie, feeble, gutless, heartless, idle, joyless, klutzy, leery, morbid, nasty, oafish, painful, queasy, rabid, shabby, tiresome, unstable, vicious, whiny, X-rated, yapping zero.

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