On a human - Ed Pilkington in The Guardian:
‘Even before Donald Trump takes the stage at the Republican national convention on Thursday night, promising a speech on national unity rather than the usual partisan rancour, his team has laboured hard in the wake of the rally shooting to give the impression that he is a changed man.
Gone was the Trump of “this American carnage”, the victim of witch-hunts who, if returned to the White House, would unleash a whirlwind of retribution on his enemies and be a dictator on day one. In its place was Trump the candy-peddling grandfather, the kiss-me-goodnight father, the comforting mentor and patriotic healer.
It was as if the official theme of the week, Make America Great Again, had been hurriedly replaced by a new slogan: Make Trump Human Again.’
Read the complete article here.
The act of the patriotic healer is proof of sheer confidence, and rightly so. I mean the hand of God has become visible after the botched assasiantion attempt of a few weeks ago.
It was Maradona in Mexico in 1986 who attracted God and his hand. And now in a less obvious way it was Trump who provoked God in more or less the same way to use his hand, or should one say to use his ear.
The candy-peddling grandfather. That’s the American style, the candy-peddling grandfather kills his opponents, just because he has no choice. He prefers candy-peddling.