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Since human beings are often dark creatures, their fantasies are often dark fantasies. Ballard’s great novel The Atrocity Exhibition, public figures such as Ronald Reagan and Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy are subjected to the morbid and sordid fantasies of the main character. One thinks of Hegel’s meditation on the derealization of death in the time of the French Revolution and wonders if Hegel’s remarks aren’t still as fresh as the paint on our computer screens: Death in the time of the French Revolution, Hegel writes, was the “coldest, shallowest of deaths, with no more significance than cleaving a cabbage head or swallowing a gulp of water.” If any of these characters had been assassinated, their deaths would seem as unreal as these figures themselves are. Trump belongs to Nineteen Eighties trash culture alongside other two-dimensional caricatures of human beings such as Rowdy Roddy Piper, Joe Piscopo, and Morton Downey, Jr. Such simulated deaths must be understood not as calls to actually decapitate or to assassinate the living human leader–indeed, the leader of the world’s sole superpower–but rather as simulations of the death of a holographic projection, stylizations of the death of a clownish figure no more real than Donald Duck. Since the accession of Trump to the presidency, there have been multiple stagings, visualizations, stylings, dramatizations of the decapitation and even of the assassination of the forty-fifth President of the United States. They are not human beings they are human seemings. All are holograms, shadows of living beings rather than living beings themselves. Donald Trump is every bit as unreal as Flo the Progressive Insurance Girl or Colonel Sanders-all three of these characters are strategic unrealities. It was Trump the Billionaire of Wrestlemania 23 (2007). It was Trump the Boss of The Apprentice (2004-2015). It was Trump the Rich Man of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).

It was his screen double, which is all the American electorate has ever known of him. It was not Trump the human being who acceded to the presidency. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States of America gives further evidence, if needed, that Americans wish to be led by cartoon characters. Arthur Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, Zweiter Band, Kapitel 17 “Nackt kann die Wahrheit vor dem Volke nicht erscheinen.”

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