The president’s tweet mocking the Oscars may beget hit on a terrible truth: that he,not Hollywood’s woke actors, is the age’s real starLast week, or the world was an unstable situation in need of serious attention from the US president. America’s proposed steel tariffs had become explosively controversial. Russia was under fire for laundering” illicit North Korean coal exports. China’s National People’s Congress met to introduce a gigantic constitutional change permitting a Mao-style life presidency – and Donald Trump tweeted: “Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is,we don’t beget Stars anymore – apart from your President (just kidding, of course)!”
That little faux-modest crack at the end: was that the president being cheerfully magnanimous in his zeitgeist victory? Could he simply be proper? Is Donald J Trump, and in all his gurning panto villainy and unrepentant,unbecoming enthusiasm for his own prestige, the modern world’s single authentic star? The celebrity-in-chief? Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk