Trump – Stop Shaming “Nerds”
I have to emphasize that Trump’s shaming of women, immigrants, minorities, and Muslims is much more important to complain about. But even the experts, who are considered “nerds” in middle school or high school, need to complain about Trump’s shaming of them.
What triggered this article is Trump’s imaginary hacker of the DNC as a 400 pound teenager working from his bed or bedroom. The NSA and CIA are sure it was Russian hackers, probably because of the well known code that they use, which is also said to be sprinkled with Cyrillic alphabet symbols. First of all, such a teenager needn’t stay hidden, since he could get a well paying job with the above agencies.
Trump’s nerd shaming starts with his imaginary hacker being 400 pounds, which fits into Trump’s usual method of shaming overweight people. (By the way, Donald, you are no longer the trim playboy that you once were.). Trump then shames him by his not having a job or house of his own, but having to work from his bed or bedroom. I think that is in Trump’s mind, since that is where Trump may do his 3 AM tweeting from.
But wait, there is a lot more. Trump is implying that the Russians don’t have excellent hacking experts of their own, or the cunning to conceive of influencing the American election, at precisely the right time, with precisely the right embarrassing documents, that got Debbie Schultz fired, and stirred up Sanders’ voters. That implied lack of Russian capability could be taken as an insult by Trump’s faux buddy, Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Where else does Trump shame experts? Where doesn’t he? Trump knows more about ISIS than the generals. Trump knows that the successful agreement to reverse Iranian progress on nuclear weapons could have been better, and he will abrogate it. It apparently did not contain enough Iranian shaming. Trump knows more than the CIA and the experts who gave him the security briefing. He also knows by their body language that they did not agree with President Obama’s policies, despite the fact that they had been trained not to show body language.
Trump knows more than the thousands of highly trained climate scientists, who are equipped with the best computers, satellites, atmospheric, land and ocean measuring equipment, that global warming does not exist, and is a hoax.
Trump knows that the scientific polls are wrong, and that only the conservative website online polls are accurate. Trump knows immediately that an attack is terrorist or not, before any expert investigation takes place. Trump is the greatest tax expert that ever ran for President, despite lacking such acknowledgement by anyone who has discussed taxes with him, or prepared his taxes.
Trump claims that he will solve all of America’s problems, despite not having plans to solve most of them. Trump knows that all trade pacts could be improved, so he will dissolve them all. Trump knows that the successful Obamacare has to be replaced, despite the fact that the Republicans have not constructed a replacement for it. Trump knows that Hillary is guilty, despite the fact that she has been cleared of any accusations dreamed up by the right wing. The FBI experts could not find indictable evidence, whereas Trump could have?
This compulsion of Trump’s to denounce experts in all areas smacks of “nerd” shaming on the middle school playground or high school lunchroom. That is where Trump’s social development seems to have ceased. Expert shaming does not continue into college, where students realize that the “nerds” are destined for high paying professional careers.
It is sad that Trump has this problem, centered in egotism and narcissism. It would be a great tragedy and danger to America and to all Americans if Donald Trump became our President and our Commander in Chief.
