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He's a fantasist on the scale of Donald Trump

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Why needlessly inject politics into this?

Donald Trump was a deluded self-aggrandizer long before his entry into the political landscape.

Just like we can refer to Ronnie in terms of westerns, and Arnold in terms of action hero movies (or muscle beach) - so too can we refer to Donald in terms of his pop culture self fellatio.

He was a joke long before he spawned a (bowel) movement across the nation.

But now he's the POTUS it's a politically charged one. In other words, it's flamebait - which isn't the same as being untrue.

Donald Trump as a detached-from-reality fantasist and symbol of excess has been a well-known cultural reference since at least the 1980s, it predates and exists independently of his political career.

It's referenced obliquely, for instance, in Don Henley's “Gimme What You Got”, from The End of the Innocence (1989).

Nothing is being injected. A section of the article deals with politics and Trump explicitly.

That's a really roundabout way to say that Ayyadurai's support for Trump is mentioned in the article. It's interesting but hardly relevant, especially as a reply to the parent comment.

What?

The guy who claims to have invented email is a vocal trump supporter planning to run for congress. It seems that he sees having invented email as giving him political credibility.

Read the article to the end before commenting!

The section that deals with politics only deals with Trump to the extent that he is a supporter. The comment I am replying to is unrelated to this, unless you are saying that the two are linked (that he is a supporter because of the similarities in personality).

> Read the article to the end before commenting!

Read the guidelines before commenting!

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article.

It's called an "analogy"

I'm sure the poster is aware, I believe his point was it was a needlessly contentious one.

beside the point. You chose a politically charged analogy, if one was needed in the first place.

Everything is political when it comes down to it - as my boss once said the 8th layer of the OSI stack and the fifth layer of TCP/IP is politics

I'm talking explicitly about national politics, and the American administration (both irrelevant to this discussion, unless you want to explicitly talk about Ayyadurai's political ambitions).

I'm not so sure you misunderstood this.

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