The fool king. Why can't Donald Trump be ridiculed?
klubjagiellonski.pl 1 month ago
Trump's triumph over laughter is post-ironic triumph. The president of the United States overturns the irony not with sincerity, but with an intensified carnival form of humor. His political visions are bombistic hyperboles of imperialism (Trump Gaza, annexation of Canada and Greenland), institutions embodying memes (DOGE), and an image of any aesthetic and intellectual madness full of paradoxes. Trump, however, is not just a clown, he is not even a king of clowns. [...]
