As you all well know, my wife often referred to me as a curmudgeon. A few days ago, I had lunch with a friend and he mentioned that Claire sometimes called me a curmudgeon. He asked if there were any famous curmudgeons. I assumed he meant any besides me, but I came up with W.C. Fields, who is maybe the most famous, as well as the Muppets\u2019 Statier and Waldorf (the guys in the balcony,) Lucy from the Peanuts comic strip and maybe Andy Rooney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My friend asked if I didn\u2019t think Donald Trump was maybe a curmudgeon.\u00a0
The short answer is no. He is bad tempered, but he doesn\u2019t fit the curmudgeon mold. He daydreams or imagines universal adulation and gets ticked off that he doesn\u2019t get it. He fantasizes about making America great again and energizing his base. But a real curmudgeon doesn\u2019t care one bit whether or not people like him \u2014 he\u2019s too old for all that nonsense, and \u2014 his knees hurt. A curmudgeon doesn\u2019t think he can change the world \u2014 he only tries to slow down the pace in which it seems to be going to hell.\u00a0
So Trump may be incompetent, arrogant, an idiot, egoistical, ignorant, a racist, and narcissistic \u2014 but \u2014 he\u2019s not a curmudgeon.
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As you all well know, my wife often referred to me as a curmudgeon. A few days ago, I had lunch with a friend and he mentioned that Claire sometimes called me a curmudgeon. He asked if there were any … Continue reading