Great essay: CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE TO BE DONALD TRUMP?

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/ed-simon/77825/can-you-imagine-what-it-must-be-like-to-be-donald-trump

EXCERPT:  Trump's world, as deftly if salaciously recounted in Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury, is a petty, small, miserable, anxious, angry one. Images of the bathrobe clad leader of the free world madly pawing at his phone with KFC greased fingers. Who among you would actually want to be Donald Trump? What emerges is a portrait of one who has accumulated everything he wants, even the presidency, and yet who does nothing to enrich or empower the citizens whom he ostensibly governs on the behalf of, preferring to enact revenge on his perceived enemies. Of a man so limited and incurious, so incapable of any fraternal, romantic, or loving connection with another human being (seeing all relationships as simply transactional) that he is seemingly incapable of genuine laughter, being only partial to the sneer. Laughter, such a basic human response, which the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda said was the "language of the soul." What Charles Dickens or even Christopher Marlowe could have made of a spirit as ugly as Trump's!