Trump's spokesman Cheung

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OK, this guy deserves his own thread. Of all the aspects of the campaign that I find baffling, he's probably the most baffling. Definitely not the most important, but he makes no sense.

1. First, how do you get to be a spokesperson for anything when you look like Odd Job? I mean, obviously he's an East Asian guy; nothing wrong with that. But I don't know any other East Asians who look like Odd Job, and if they did, they would alter their appearance so they don't look like Odd Job. And this is a spokesperson position. Looks are part of the job. You don't have to think propaganda Barbie should be the model for a media person to notice that Press Secretaries and spokespeople are almost always at least reasonably attractive. As we used to say when I was programming, there are front office guys and back office guys (I worked almost entirely with male programmers; it was the 90s and early 2000s). Cheung is a back office guy all the way.

2. OK, move along from his appearance. He goes out of his way to be as obnoxious as possible. He's not just combative; he's offensive, dismissive, irrational and foaming at the mouth. Again, not the qualities you want in a public face. They stopped sending Stephen Miller on TV when they realized that nobody likes him. I don't know if he's back or if he just issues statements, but for a while you'd never see him on TV because he's such an asshole. So they've now got a guy who makes Miller look polite and laid back.

3. Trump seems to have a lot of spokespeople. The others are more traditional in their approach -- you know, trying to be likeable, at least a little. So they know what a press secretary is supposed to be. But Cheung is still the boss. And I get that they are becoming more open about their fascism, but there was a time in which they were trying to pretend that they weren't authoritarians. Having a spokesperson so vulgar and obnoxious that it would make Putin blush -- again, how is it this possible?

I find the presence of this man in the campaign, and his attitudes and behaviors, and his prominence, to be baffling. Can someone help me understand him? I don't think "well, they are authoritarians and having a press contact like that is part of their brand" is a fully satisfying answer. Normally Trump is smart enough to send out Habbas or Kayleighs as the public face; even if they are idiots, at least they aren't scary looking or fucking sociopathic. And then there's this guy.
 
OK, this guy deserves his own thread. Of all the aspects of the campaign that I find baffling, he's probably the most baffling. Definitely not the most important, but he makes no sense.

1. First, how do you get to be a spokesperson for anything when you look like Odd Job? I mean, obviously he's an East Asian guy; nothing wrong with that. But I don't know any other East Asians who look like Odd Job, and if they did, they would alter their appearance so they don't look like Odd Job. And this is a spokesperson position. Looks are part of the job. You don't have to think propaganda Barbie should be the model for a media person to notice that Press Secretaries and spokespeople are almost always at least reasonably attractive. As we used to say when I was programming, there are front office guys and back office guys (I worked almost entirely with male programmers; it was the 90s and early 2000s). Cheung is a back office guy all the way.

2. OK, move along from his appearance. He goes out of his way to be as obnoxious as possible. He's not just combative; he's offensive, dismissive, irrational and foaming at the mouth. Again, not the qualities you want in a public face. They stopped sending Stephen Miller on TV when they realized that nobody likes him. I don't know if he's back or if he just issues statements, but for a while you'd never see him on TV because he's such an asshole. So they've now got a guy who makes Miller look polite and laid back.

3. Trump seems to have a lot of spokespeople. The others are more traditional in their approach -- you know, trying to be likeable, at least a little. So they know what a press secretary is supposed to be. But Cheung is still the boss. And I get that they are becoming more open about their fascism, but there was a time in which they were trying to pretend that they weren't authoritarians. Having a spokesperson so vulgar and obnoxious that it would make Putin blush -- again, how is it this possible?

I find the presence of this man in the campaign, and his attitudes and behaviors, and his prominence, to be baffling. Can someone help me understand him? I don't think "well, they are authoritarians and having a press contact like that is part of their brand" is a fully satisfying answer. Normally Trump is smart enough to send out Habbas or Kayleighs as the public face; even if they are idiots, at least they aren't scary looking or fucking sociopathic. And then there's this guy.
Behind every Kayleigh and Habba, there's always been an Odd Job.
 
Maybe Trump was tired of getting his overtures turned down by the Kayleigh McEnany's and Alina Habba's of the world, and simply wanted someone so desperate and with no other options that they wouldn't say 'no'. Because Cheung ain't getting any from anyone or anywhere else.
 
I suspect Trump loves that he has a henchmen who reminds him and everyone else of Goldfinger.

And Cheung is a pitch perfect embodiment of Trump’s ugliest instincts and bullying responses, like some sort of golem distilled from the noxious breath Trump exhaled when making fun of a disabled reporter or picking on a hopelessly outnumbered classmate in military school. He oooozes Trump’s particular brand of a 15 year-old flunky held back and still tormenting hapless junior high boys.

He is a grown man spewing “zingers” like this:

 
Whenever I see him I think that he should’ve been an actor. I have no idea if he can act, but there would have been roles available.
 
I suspect Trump loves that he has a henchmen who reminds him and everyone else of Goldfinger.

, like some sort of golem distilled from the noxious breath Trump exhaled when making fun of a disabled reporter or picking on a hopelessly outnumbered classmate in military school.
Ooh, that's quite a turn of phrase from a transactional lawyer. I agree.

He looks like Odd Job, but in essence he's more like the Mouth of Sauron.
 
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