Donald Trump Reigns in 'Upper Blowhardia'

And he's proud of it, God bless him: David Brooks
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 19, 2011 11:59 AM CDT
Donald Trump Has Entered 'Upper Blowhardia': Donald Trump
Donald Trump attends the South Florida Tea Party's third annual tax day rally Saturday, April 16.   (AP Photo/Palm Beach Post, Gary Coronado)

Donald Trump gets the cultural anthropologist treatment today from David Brooks, who sees the billionaire as the product of "deep currents" in our society. For starters, Trump is that rare breed so impressed with himself he feels compelled to give the rest of us his "every stray thought" with "impregnable certitiude," Brooks writes in the New York Times. He has, in other words, "entered the realm of Upper Blowhardia." Annoying, sure, but "there has always been a large clump of voters who believe that America could reverse its decline if only a straight-talking, obnoxious blowhard would take control."

Second, Trump is not embarrassed about his staggering wealth, a no-no in the upper echelons of "polite society." In this, he "is the living, walking personification of the Gospel of Success." Trump won't be president, but he "is tapping into powerful sections of the national fantasy life," writes Brooks. "I would never vote for him, but I would never want to live in a country without people like him." Click to read about Trump's ever-so-subtle foreign policy thoughts. (More Donald Trump stories.)

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