Just a few weeks left until the US Presidential election and the polls suggest that Joe Biden is ahead, but they said the same about Hilary in 2016 and she lost although she did win the popular vote. How incredibly weird that you can win the popular vote but not win the election. I definitely don’t understand US politics, but one thing’s for sure, DT is a dangerous person.
He creates his own spin, 24/7, it’s called Twitter, as I write this newsletter on a platform created by one of it’s previous founders! Ev Williams.
Political leaders are supposed to set an example to the rest of the country’s citizens. He’s been a terrible example not just through the current pandemic, throughout his total tenure as President for the past 4 years.
We have followed his journey and all the incredible stuff that happened along the way. We have drawn a few cartoons over the past 4 years to show the ridiculousness of his leadership, the lies, that tantrums and the sackings.
When we created this cartoon, the numbers weren’t that high in the USA, but the lies and denials were sky-high and of course Trump featured in a big way and still does. The image I got was him being eaten by the Virus, literally!
This is THE best summary of Donald Trump I have ever read. It is a superb summary of what we think in the U.K.
This was originally answered on Quora by Nat White but for some reason the response was deleted by Quora, nobody knows why. The response was also covered extensively by many publications all over the world. I have searched for Nat White everywhere, Twitter, LinkedIn and the web but have come up with nothing. If you know him or can find him, I’d love to interview him on my podcast, link below. 👇
Someone asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
A few things spring to mind;
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W. look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
‘My God… what… have… I… created?’
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
Thank you Nate White, I hope you find this piece and share your handle, so I can tag you accordingly. Cheers!
Donald Trump and Mette Frederiksen — #weekly cartoon — Michael and Josh
For me this is THE story of the year. Donald Trump demanding to buy Greenland. The response by the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was even better. It definitely inspired our latest cartoon titled: ‘I’m buying Greenland’.
Leadership is potentially the most difficult human trait any human has to perform and try to master. Unfortunately most of us will never realise our potential.
We are all leaders in our own lives, you don’t have to be managing people to be seen as a leader. Leadership is evident in your deeds, in your words, in your writings, your actions and behaviour towards humankind.
In the past week, we’ve had many opposing examples of leadership in the world. Without going into massive detail, I’m sharing some of the top level detail of those leadership examples.
The first leadership example is by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, whose outstanding leadership amongst one of the worst terrorist crimes to take place in her country, has been incredible. Her compassion and decisive gun law changes is a great example of leadership in government. Let’s hope that many leaders in the world will look to copy her leadership style.
The second leadership example is by Theresa May, UK’s Prime Minster, whose leadership style is quite interesting indeed. I am sure you have heard about Brexit and it is quite an emotive topic in the U.K. and has been for at least 6 years, when leaving the EU was first promoted by the previous Prime Minister, David Cameron. Theresa May went on national television to complain about parliament for not voting for her deal. She also takes everything very personally and uses the ‘I’ word regularly. She rarely says ‘we’, suggesting that she is the only one running the country, which of course can’t be further from the truth.
The third example is Donald Trump, who will go down in history for potentially the most famous president of all time. He loves the limelight and if he doesn’t get it, he goes on Twitter rants. His latest rant was a series of 29 sequential tweets in one rant sitting. It almost seems as if he is unable, unwilling and incapable of actual speaking with people. He uses Twitter to hide behind and believes he can reach his supporters in this way.
In summary one great leadership example and two poor ones.
Hopefully you will chose example one to take forward into your journey of leadership.
Trump shouting at the Press — Michael & Josh — #weeklycartoon
We’ve portrayed Trump previously as ‘Pinocchio’. We were inspired to produce this one based on the ‘stories’ that come out of the Whitehouse on a regular basis. Enjoy!
He tells them that they are fake news, whilst he’s the one telling the biggest stories ever told.
Donald Trump blocking the Caravan — Michael & Josh — #weeklycartoon
The Pentagon is sending over 15,000 troops to the border with Mexico as thousands of Central American migrants walk towards the US in a caravan. You know who is being quite vocal over it all. It inspired our latest cartoon.
The US is like the old Wild West with Trump in charge. I picture him on horseback down the streets of Washington DC, wielding is rifle.
The fairy puts a spell on Jiminy Cricket and leaves by saying: ‘Now remember Pinocchio, be a good boy and always let your conscience be your guide’. Perfect I thought and it inspired our latest cartoon, enjoy!
Mike Pence and Donald Trump on the Moon with Deathstar behind them — Michael & Josh #weeklycartoon
I’m a bit behind with posting our cartoons here. This one was about when Mike Pence, US Vice President, announced the SpaceForce battling against space terrorists!
I couldn't get Toy Story out of my head, seeing Mike and Donald hand in hand on the Moon!
Trump receives football — #weeklycartoon — Michael&Josh
#DonaldTrump and #Putin finally met to celebrate their master plan. Putin had a gift for Donald. It was a #WorldCup football. It made me wonder what was in it and inspired our latest cartoon. Well after all he had been asking where the server was.
The huge baby Trump protest balloon, allowed by London’s mayor, SadiqKhan, will float above Westminster during Donald Trump’s visit during week ending 13th July and yes indeed that is a Friday!
At the time of writing they may have had the OK by the mayor, but air traffic control hadn’t give the thumbs up as yet.
The Brits love a polite protest, which after all it is.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un — Gift Giving — Michael & Josh #weeklycartoon
When Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un met, they appreciated each other so much, it didn’t seem that real. There is a theory of course in NLP that in order to build rapport with someone you have to match their behaviour, tone of voice, mannerism etc. And as we know that’s exactly what Trump did with his ‘fire and fury’ and ‘rocket man’ statements.
They probably took a liking to each other because they are in fact so similar. Here they are sharing cuddly toys.
Donald Trump shows Rex the door! — Michael & Josh #dailycartoon
Rex Tillerson was sacked via Twitter. Rex is a dog’s name right? He was such a loyal dog to Donald Trump. But as the saying goes every dog has his day and unfortunately it was Rex’s time. He inspired our latest cartoon.
It really is a new dawn in the era of social media and hiring and firing of people, thanks to the President of the USA.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un meet — Michael & Josh #dailycartoon series
It’s being suggested that Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un are going to meet up in May 2018. You might assume it’s to discuss peace but then again it might be to compare each other’s military might. This cartoon suggests one view. Who knows what might happen?
Elon Musk allegedly has received “early and vague” government approval to start work in a DC parking lot. That’s Washington DC!
Musk has a mission and vision to build an underground ‘hyperloop’ that transports cars underground to avoid the enormous congestion that exists and will only balloon in decades to come.
An incredible and very brave idea for sure.
This cartoon shows that Musk will be able to tunnel through to Donald Trump’s bedroom from a Washington DC car park.
Donald Trump Man of Steel by Michael & Josh #dailycartoon series
Donald Trump decided to start a trade war with the rest of the world on steel. The trouble is the nations he’s threatening reacted straight away.
It’s no different with the threats that he sends out to North Korea, he’s doing it to create maximum effect and of course because everyone does react, he’s getting what he wants. He wants people to be on the back foot. That way he can perhaps achieve a compromise and show the American People that he is actually achieving something.
However the The Dow Jones Industrial Average had initially fallen more than 570 points, with heavy losses for manufacturers like Caterpillar and Boeing. The index closed down 420 points and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both dropped on the day as well.
He also decides to make these announcements to get the American People on his side, especially as he’s been losing some popularity lately.
This cartoon shows Donald Trump as Baby Trump and as Superman, the man of steel. He has just landed on Planet Earth and is showing his power and strength.
Donald Trump by Michael & Josh #dailycartoon series
In February 2018 there was another sad school shooting in the USA. Gun control has been a major issue for the USA for decades and no president has been able to put in place the kind of controls that stop these kind of shootings.
Donald Trump declared that he wanted teachers to carry guns in schools to prevent these kind of incidents from happening again.
Putting guns into schools will attract more shootings.
Hoping that US citizens see sense and start the road to gun control and recovery.
This cartoon shows Donald Trump on horseback with a gun, depicting the old Wild West as a way to protect American schools.
A not so common known fact is that 50% of the population will not agree with you. This doesn’t always sit comfortably with most of us. We believe of course that we are right and everyone else is wrong.
You only need to look at the evidence of the US presidential election and the Brexit referendum. Both of those events were miss judged by the media and politicians alike. The polls gave us the wrong data and nobody expected the results.
Pretty much the votes were 50/50.
Now take this into your own life, your work and community and you will experience the same even in your own family.
In my family there are 4 kids, now of course adults. 2 of them don’t agree with the other 2 and as a consequence don’t speak to each other. When my parents were alive you could split the family unit exactly into 2. 50% of the unit were predisposed to be mostly negative and 50% were predisposed to be mostly positive.
If you are regularly commenting on Social Media, you will definitely have 50% of your readers that will disagree with you, unless they know you very well, in which case they probably keep quiet.
Recently I made a comment on LinkedIn on a post by one of my connections. I noticed a few days later they had disconnected from me. Interesting.
Everyone has an opinion, just because you think you are right, it doesn’t make the other person wrong.
As ordinary citizens in the world we trust our leaders, right?
Wrong.
How many times do we learn that our leaders, lie, make up stories, create spin, avoid answering our questions and blame and hide behind someone else.
Queue Donald Trump’s team and you find out that many of his leadership team have indeed been very untruthful. How much we will learn after the Robert Mueller investigations have been completed.
However you don’t need to wait until then, you can learn first hand how the US ambassador located in the Netherlands has blatantly been making up stories that are grossly untrue. He even denies something he said a few minutes earlier in the interview.
Watch in this video below by the David Packman show. They do a great job of unpacking his lies in front of the Dutch press.
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Our leaders have no idea what impact they have on their citizens and the young people in the world. We’re always told how mature adults should be role models for young people. Well, I can truly say that our role models that we have elected to run our countries in the world are lightyears away from being appropriate examples for young people.
The only saving grace is that they will never be in power longer then 8 years, in the so-called civilised western world that is and usually they will be shown to be incapable or they will resign. One or the other means they will at least be replaced by someone else who can make a mess of things.
Mental Health disease is already a bigger issue compared to cardiovascular disease when it comes to the impact on work absenteeism but companies are unlikely to have the stats to confirm it.
Mental Health can be more impactful for a longer period of time compared to a physical ailment. It can cause long absenteeism periods and often individuals will use other reasons to hide behind the fact that something is wrong mentally.
There’s still a massive stigma attached to it.
Mental Health can’t be seen and often we don’t admit to it ourselves.
If the latest reports are to be believed, Donald Trump has some Mental Health issues. Actually we don’t need to be convinced by the reports or Michael Wolff’s latest book on the White House, all you need to do is look at Trump’s tweets and you will appreciate that something isn’t quite right.
Indeed all you need to do is look at Social Media and people’s Facebook posts and Twitter rants and you know something is not going well for them. At some level we all have Mental Health challenges but we are mostly in denial about them and we mask them through our Facebook personas, trying to make things appear much better than they actually are.
If the predictions are to be believed Mental Health will be the biggest condition affecting the global population far out stretching all other diseases combined.
This episode of Horizon looks at the issues that will change the way we live our lives in the future. Rather than relying on the minds of science fiction writers, mathematician Hannah Fry delves into the data we have today to provide an evidence-based vision of tomorrow. With the help of the BBC’s science experts — and a few surprise guests — Hannah investigates the questions the British public want answered about the future. Mental Health is discussed in this report.
