DARREN LEWIS: ‘Trump’s f-bombs are ripping up the rule ebook to humiliate himself, his workplace, the White House and America’
Trump took to Truth Social to attack Iran for not opening the Strait of Hormuz in a shocking F-bomb laden post, ripping up of the rule book to humiliate himself and America
“When Netflix or another of the big production houses start work on the Season One of The Madness Of Don Trump, they won’t know where to start.”
Casting Dame Judi Dench as Sir Keir Starmer in the spoof social media trailer for Iran War – The Movie was beyond brutal. You can just imagine the straight faces Starmer’s staff had to keep in the Prime Minister’s presence when that AI video went viral last week. Multiply that by a factor of 10 for the F-bomb-laden post on Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform attacking Iran for not opening the Strait of Hormuz.
In it, he threatened to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges if that country failed to meet his Tuesday deadline to reopen the passageway to all shipping. The post read: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F*****’ Strait, you crazy b******s, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
Yes, really. And in the actual post there were no asterisks. When Netflix or another of the big production houses start work on the Season One of The Madness Of Don Trump, they won’t know where to start. The spoof trailer had Liam Neeson playing him but it could easily have been Hollywood superstars Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight or Brendan Gleeson, who played him in the 2020 mini-series The Comey Rule.
But I digress. That social media post suggesting a Trump meltdown reminded me of Al Pacino’s Tony Montana in the movie Scarface. Montana’s slow, paranoid descent into that explosive finale, surrounded by his own, extracurricular activities, remains the stuff of cinema history.
Assuming Trump writes his own posts, you can only imagine him behind that desk in the early hours, left – quite literally – to his own devices. Sunday’s post also reminded me of Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance in the The Shining who, by the end of the 1980 movie, has completely lost it and lashes out at everyone in a deranged rage.
Ditto, for older readers, James Cagney’s psychopathic criminal Cody Jarrett in the 1949 movie White Heat. Because among the golden rules of social media are: Never to post drunk, never to post angry, and never to post anything you wouldn’t want written in 10 feet-high letters in the sky.
And yet Trump’s ripping up of the rule book to humiliate himself, his office, the White House and America was not even a shock. Sure, it would have raised eyebrows around the world once the offensive post was confirmed not to be fake. But this is a man who mocked American soldiers killed in action as “losers” and “suckers”.
A man who, on September 11, 2001 – that utterly tragic day in American history – called into a TV station to claim erroneously that one of his properties was now the tallest building in Lower Manhattan. A man who has threatened to invade Europe to take control of Greenland, insulted NATO on multiple occasions and alienated Europe with his war on Iran.
A man whose xenophobic, racist and misogynisic comments are extensive. A man who once mocked a disabled reporter. And believe me, that little list barely scratches the surface.
So if you were shocked by Sunday’s social media post, where have you been? A number of media outlets read it verbatim – including the profanity – because it did have to be heard or seen to be believed. More than 77 million Americans voted for a firebrand with a golden elevator believing he better represented the common man than the socialist Black woman, Kamala Harris.
Now they’ve found that they have chained themselves to a runaway train heading for a cliff with no bridge. The journey there will be agonisingly slow too – with more than two and a half years remaining of Trump’s term in office. At this rate the filmmakers are going to end up with too much material.
