Two kings

Oct 30th, 2020 | By
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

The cavalry has arrived! Just in time to be swept into the ditch.

How poignant to see Kent garagiste Nigel Farage interfering in the US election, much in the way a drop interferes in the ocean. Farage is appearing at the odd rally for his emotional support president, Donald Trump, which tells its own story about where the US leader is at, psychologically speaking, for the final days of his campaign. On Wednesday, Trump gibbered to a crowd: “I’m glad I called him up.” So is Nigel’s agent.

Nigel was brought on stage in Arizona by Donald, where the latter introduced him as “the king of Europe”.

Certainly, and Trump is the emperor of Antarctica.

Farage rubed his way on to the rally platform and took the microphone to declare Trump was “the single most resilient and bravest person I have ever met in my life”.

Well, you know, that kind of thing – it always depends on the person who says it. It may be true of Farage, who may have a very circumscribed and jejune set of people on his list of “ever met.” But if we take it less literally as a general statement about Trump? No. Trump is neither resilient nor brave.

Also, Trump’s courage and resilience aren’t all that’s required. For the job Trump presumes to do he needs other qualities – intelligence, discipline, responsibility, empathy, collegiality, basic decency. Uh oh.

[Farage] was giving it his best Lord Haw-Haw, informing Trump’s crowd: “You’ll be voting for the only leader in the western world with the real courage to stand up to the Chinese Communist party.” Stand up to them? He pays more tax to them than he does to the US. Later, Nigel justified his media credentials by explaining to Daily Telegraph readers that Trump had “what Americans call ‘the big M’ – momentum”. Is that what Americans call momentum? We’ll have to take this latterday Alistair Cooke’s word for it, I suppose.

I can help with that! No, we don’t. Maybe some goons in Hollywood do, but as a people, no.

It would be nice if Trump and Farage joined forces after Trump loses, as a song and dance act playing towns like Knoxville and Sioux City and Abilene.

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