I can't help it, I love Trump. He is the most unbelievable combination of Dr. Strangelove and Rodney Dangerfield in Caddy Shack and the performance is something historians will puzzle over for decades ( about all we have left, unfortunately, otherwise they would puzzle for centuries).
He comes to Bushwood Country Club honking his horn and flashing his wad in the most crass, unflinching, un-reflexive style humanly possible, like every great comic letting you feel like you are special in being let in on the joke. While obliterating the "elite", those who look down on you and condescend to you. Bill Maher is a poser when it comes to high-level political un-correctness.
He has also mastered a coded language so powerful in its ability to select between those who "get it" ( your in group) and those at whom it is aimed (elites). Speaking to a group of young black supporters from the conservative group Turning Point, he goes "off script" and says, referring to their female leader: "“I’m not allowed to say it any more, but she’s also beautiful,” Trump said, arms outstretched, palms open, as the room erupted in laughter. “It’s true. Under the MeToo generation we’re not allowed to say it. So all of you young brilliant guys, never, ever call a woman beautiful, please.
“You’re not allowed to do it and I’ve kept doing it and I’ve never been told by that woman never to do it.”
This is code for: snowflakes get all bent over a little pussy grabbing but we know women like it. It's what we guys learned to laugh along with in the locker room if we didn't want to get singled out. This is what Dangerfield's stand up was all about. The young blacks know if they grin along they may get introduced to Kanye West or other black entrepreneurs and they can network and make connections like they learned to do in the capitalist "Locker room".
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