I expect you think that Donald Trump is the rudest person in the world. I would expect this as there are so many quotes and videos showing him being rude. I haven't seen him not rude. But there are no articles with the headline Donald Trump the rudest person in the world even though there are many articles citing his rude insults.
There is a "rudest person in America" Wikipedia says it was Edsel Ford Fung. He was known as the "world's rudest, worst, most insulting waiter" in America.
As head waiter, Fong greeted visitors with an admonition to "Sit down and shut up!" He was known for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", criticizing people's menu choices and then telling them what they should order, slamming food on the table, and complaining about receiving only 15% tips. An imposing man, he was notorious for seating people with strangers, forgetting orders, cursing, spilling soup on customers, hazing newcomers, refusing to provide forks or English menu translations, and busing tables before diners were finished.
Fong was made famous by columnist Herb Caen, who often described the misanthropic Fong during his visits to Sam Wo. This is such an interesting story - go check him out HERE.
And the story conclusion? While he was considered genuinely rude, it turns out he was a performance artist. He made the restaurant famous and a tourist destination spot.
So back to Donald Trump. There are headlines - the 10 most disgusting things Donald Trump has ever said...and then "here are twenty other disturbing, awful things that Trump has said"... but no headlines on how rude he is.
The only "rude" article retrieved is from the CBC radio show The Conversation - "Does rudeness have a legitimate place in politics?" It is HERE. Donald Trump features in the examples of rudeness and its political uses.
But then, I am focusing on the smallest of the issues with Donald Trump. Here's the prognosis on Donald Trump:
"But the fact that Trump is a sociopath, a person without a conscience who is incapable of recognizing the inherent worth of other human beings, makes him the enormous danger he is. Trump has the worst of all worlds, one might say, psychotically grandiose and utterly uncaring about the harm he causes others. He is basically psychologically the same as the many infamous, cruel tyrants we know from recent and remote history."
The author is Lance Does, former Harvard psychiatrist HERE. The author concludes that we can expect a police state if Donald Trump is re-elected.
Silly me to focus on rudeness when I could have looked at all these aspects of Trump: narcissist, a pathological liar, obsessed with violence, sociopath or perhaps a psychopath.
Is it that rudeness is one small step in the journey of psychosis?
Let's remember the passing of Summer and the pretty Painted Ladies houses at Grimsby Beach.
