For a "wealthy" man who has lived his entire life in NYC, Trump is extremely uncultured.

[Yavin4]

He can afford to attend all the great works of culture in NYC from ballets to operas to the theater to art galleries. Yet, you never hear him reference any of these things.

[Cha]

1. No shit

[democratisphere]

2. drumpf can't even put a rational sentence together.

Culture is way beyond his reach.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. wealth and power do not equate with class.

[NotThisTime]

22. or intelligence, he's just very average who appeals to those with the greatest levels of hate or

lower level of thought process

[JustAnotherGen]

27. Or taste

[bullwinkle428]

4. Russian hookers wrestling in Jello hold WAY more appeal than

any of that "culture" crap! Believe me!

[mountain grammy]

5. That would be very, very, very, very uncultured.

a nice way of saying barbarian.

[BigMin28]

6. To say

He is uncouth would be an understatement. The sad little man IS the proverbial " ugly American".

[dalton99a]

7. "When I hear the word 'culture', that's when I reach for my revolver"

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[Doreen]

8. I have a feeling that he could talk about teleivision programs to no end.

He might be rich and always has lived the rich life but I suspect from a conversation I had with someone that he can not read very well. Just because you are rich does not mean you got around not learning particular things well. He does seem like his culture is very lacking.

[LuckyLib]

18. I think this is it. With family money, he managed to "fake" his way in to the big world of real

estate development, a world where lots happens orally and lower level minions take care of the written details. He gets information from conversation and TV and if he struggles with attention and focus, can likely not read beyond about a third grade level. Hence a pitifully inadequate vocabulary. He's simply not very bright. And has anger issues. Twitter came along at just the right time.

[Doreen]

19. I suspect his father did him a disservice by making sure he pushed through school despite

his learning level and what he could actually do thus ensuring he could not read very well and I assume his math and history are not very good either.

[vlyons]

28. he has accuntants and lawyers to handle the math

The history is really sad, because we get much of our wisdom from knowing history and not repeating the mistakes of the past. I seriously doubt that he knows who Bismarck, Trotsky, and Voltaire were. Or that he's read War and Peace or Tom Sawyer. He's probably never been to hear the New York Philharmonic or any symphony anywhere.

[MindPilot]

33. That is a very unfortunate typo...

[uponit7771]

24. +1

[Stinky The Clown]

9. He's a lout and a boor.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Just goes to show

Cash doesn't buy class

[Kaleva]

11. I don't think he has the intelligence to understand and appreciate theater, art galleries and so on.

Although he could probably talk for some time about the bodacious ta tas he has seen on some nude paintings and sculptures.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. He is a direct reflection of his parents and the his reprobate associates.

.


The more uncouth a person is, the more they believe themselves to be classy. He equates gold with class.


Just like how the Tiara Moms always call themselves "classy," when they are the antithesis of it.


.

[Lotusflower70]

13. That just shows

That money doesn't buy class. Some people have money but don't have class. Some people don't have money and they are classy as can be.

[spanone]

14. he's a punk, nothing more.

[Tanuki]

15. Remember his smashing up of the artistically significant Art Deco sculptures

on top of the Bonwit Teller Building? In this account, note the "fake news" element of the story---a spokesman for Trump named "John Barron", now known to be an alias Trump used when trying to bullshit the media, gives a quote disparaging the value of the sculptures after they had been destroyed:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/18/donald-trumps-first-media-controversy-is-a-really-great-story-just-a-really-fabulous-story/?client=ms-android-att-us

"....Two stone bas-relief sculptures high on the façade of the Bonwit Teller Building under demolition on Fifth Avenue — pieces that had been sought with enthusiasm by the Metropolitan Museum of Art — were smashed by jackhammers yesterday on the orders of a real estate developer.

- New York Times (June 6, 1980)

(More at link)

[Docreed2003]

21. Thanks for sharing this...

Seems like not much has changed for Mr Trump. I was too young in 1980 to remember this episode but I does highlight his lack of interest or concern about anything outside of himself and his self interests.

[3catwoman3]

16. Crasshole is my neologism for Trumplethinskin.

He is both crass AND an asshole.

Interestingly enough, there is a Russian term for those who are uncultured - nekulturny. It is considered to be deeply insulting. Boorish. White trash.

I can't remember why I know this. Perhaps from reading Hedrick Smith's The Russians many years ago.

Trumplethinskin is most definitely nekulturny. The Russians are probably laughing at him behind his back.

I am also referring to him as pRezident - a well placed spy in the Oval Office

[madokie]

29. Crass definitely fits him to a T

of course Asshole is his middle name
Crass Asshole dRumpF, rolls right off the tip of the tongue LOL

[lpbk2713]

17. Trump's idea of haute cuisine is a bucket of KFC.

No class.

[TlalocW]

20. He was perfectly summed by Doonesbury in the late 80s

TlalocW

[ProudLib72]

23. Who remembers

the South Park episode where "the bar" is set so low by American culture that it's actually at the bottom of the Mariana Trench? Cartman and Honey Boo Boo wrestle in spaghetti for the viewing pleasure of the president. James Cameron has to dive down in his Challenger Deep to bring the bar back up.

South Park was so prescient.

[Vinca]

25. He's much closer to the stereotypical New York mobster than anything else.

Although it seems in his case he's actually closer to Russian mobsters.

[Yavin4]

34. Ummm. NY mobsters like the opera at least

And they built nightclubs where great talent flourished.

[DrDan]

26. and his taste for fast foods is not that of the wealthy, cultured, and educated

[Mr. Ected]

30. Therein lies his appeal with the Deplorables

It's the way a so-called billionaire can pretend to commiserate with the lower middle class.

He has no class. They can identify.

[tanyev]

31. You must be forgetting his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Surely that counts for something.

[logosoco]

40. I did not know this!

Well, that changes his international standing considerably!

[Golden Raisin]

32. His ideas of culture and high art are

Schlocky gambling Casinos, Beauty Pageants and Wrestling matches. And there's always the ghastly, imitation, overly-gilded, faux Louis XIV décor, which he thinks is "classy".

[Blaukraut]

35. Not every wealthy person has to like the finer things in life, but they DO need to have manners

If he like watching TV and eating junk food, that's his preference. There is no excuse, however, to act like a caveman.

[HAB911]

36. KKKers are uncultured

[brooklynite]

37. Trump comes from Queens...

One of his major grievances is that, despite his wealth, he was never accepted by Manhattan society. In similar cases, the nouveau riche would, in fact, attempt to buy acceptance by showing up at, and funding, cultural endeavors. Trump seems to have focused on becoming richer.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

39. yup. he is a poor person's idea of what a rich person should be

young wives, gilded towers etc.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

38. he is a very outer borough sleazy developer wealthy and not cultured wealth

more Kardashian than Bloomberg

[kwassa]

41. Many rich people are uncultured.

They acquire great wealth but little cultural education, because their priority was making money.

Have you ever seen the garish monstrosities some put up as mansions?

Trump is a perfect example. He is a blue collar idea of what a rich person should be.

[Grammy23]

42. But wait. There are books that teach manners and appropriate behavior in various settings.

Guess we can abandon that idea since it is pretty obvious tRump doesn't read anything unless it is bullet point format. A whole book? Fuh-git about it.