David Mitchell on Trump
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British comic David Mitchell has published a comment on Trump in the Guardian, and likened the presidential candidate to a man ‘relieving himself in the corner of a room at an otherwise polite dinner party’.
“The dignified response it to avert your gaze,” he writes. “But it takes so much self-restraint. Our inner child wants to stare and cry out: ‘What’s that man doing? He’s so weird! Eeeeuuuurrrggghhh! I can’t stop looking at him!”
Mitchell puts it very well. We can’t stop looking at him. At his stupid hair, and his idiotic, fascist ideologies. Many would say the easiest way to deal with this hate-mongering publicity hound is to ignore him. Ignore his borderline hate speeches, and his blatant disregard for anyone’s life other than upper-class white Americans. We hope that if we ignore him enough he’ll just vanish.
The Peep Show star has a different theory, however.
Instead, he suggests we keep laughing at him. Share gifs of him being attacked by an eagle named Uncle Sam, keep pointing, keep ridiculing, because as he puts it so perfectly:
“The most dangerous thing we can do now is stop finding him funny.”
And for the love of Odin, he is right.
