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In reply to the discussion: Trump Today [View all]malthaussen
(17,183 posts)7. It's been like that poem for a long time, though...
... most of this century, at least.
To go Freudian for a moment, I wonder if Donald Trump has a superego at all? Lack of one would explain both his reptilian reflexes and his unchecked ego: the man simply lacks any governor at all. (And Freud should have thought of a better term than "superego," since Trump's ego is surely super)
But I submit Mr Trump does answer the question of the poem's last two lines:
"What rough beast... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
-- Mal
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