MERDRE! Trump's Ubu-esque Antics Draw Cheers...and Fear & Loathing

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On December 10, 1896, a new king seized the throne in Paris: King Ubu. It happened during the one and only public performance of Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi, which begins with a bloodcurdling scream “sheeeeee-it!” and only gets more vulgar from there.

When Trump was first elected president in 2016, quite a few commentators noticed that Trump is an American Ubu. As Charles Simic explained in the New York Review of Books:

The only character I can think of in the world literature who resembles Donald Trump is Père Ubu in the play Ubu Roi (“Ubu the King”) by Alfred Jarry that famously opened and closed in Paris on December 10, 1896, after starting a riot. A parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and now a classic of the theater of the absurd and the forerunner of the Dada and Surrealism movements, the play is a depiction of the lust for power, full of insolent nonsense and violent horseplay. Père Ubu is a buffoonish pretender to the throne of Poland, a brutal and greedy megalomaniac who, after killing off the royal family, starts murdering his own population in order to rob them of their money. One audience member at the premiere of the play, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, was aghast at what he had witnessed and reputedly said afterward: “What more is possible? After us, the Savage God.”

That’s how elites are reacting to Trump’s chaotic restoration: “What more is possible? After us, the Savage God.” But the commoners are cheering. They like Trump’s “deport ‘em all” rhetoric, his trashing of DEI and gender-bending, his withdrawal from the WHO and banning gain-of-function research, his threatening political enemies with retribution (including revoking Secret Service protection for Pompeo and Bolton), his releasing assassination records, banning censorship and saving TikTok, pardoning the J-6 protestors and abortion protestors, banning Central Bank Digital Currencies…and above all, promising to restore economic prosperity for working people….though the details, involving invasions of Greenland and Canada and Panama, trade wars and tariffs against the whole world, and ending restrictions on drilling for oil and gas, more tax cuts for the rich, even more lavish and wasteful military spending, and so on, are questionable.

Though Trump’s gangsterish threats to Pompeo and Bolton are both entertaining and defensible, his genocide-endorsing call to “clean out” Gaza of its human population is Ubu-esque in the bad sense. Trump’s incitement to genocide, which in a civilized world would trigger his summary execution, is presumably related to Kosher Nostra son-in-law Kushner’s plan to develop the ‘very valuable’ potential of Gaza’s ‘waterfront property’ and make billions of dollars for ubu-rich Jewish genocidal gangsters like himself.

Was Alfred Jarry an Antisemite?

It is of course a well-known antisemitic trope that rich Jews are excruciatingly vulgar and greedy beyond belief.* If they weren’t robbing us blind, robbing the Palestinians even blinder (not to mention deader), committing an in-your-face genocide while mendaciously inverting their own racist history of despising and persecuting and dispossessing goyim, and generally crying out while they strike you—putting Western peoples, Middle Eastern peoples, and planet Earth in extreme jeopardy—we would all be rolling on the ground laughing at their Ubu-esque psychopathy.

Which raises the question: Since Ubu seems in many respects a quintessential Jew, was Jarry’s play a satirical depiction of the Jewish conquest of power in the West? In other words, was Jarry an antisemite? Should he be reported to the ADL so his works can be banned and his name first smeared, then forgotten, as has happened to most of the other great Western thinkers and creators who noticed the rise of Père Jewbu?

Since I don’t have Jonathan Greenblatt on speed-dial, I called on the next best thing, ChatGPT, to find out whether Jarry was an antisemite. The AI Oracle, which is hilariously wrong about almost everything,** told me:

There is no definitive, concrete evidence that Jarry was an antisemite in the same overt or systematic way that some of his contemporaries, like Charles Maurras, were. However, there are aspects of his life and works that have raised concerns about his attitude toward Jews…Have you come across any specific examples of his work or writings that made you wonder about this?

I pointed out: “When Ubu Roi was written, the ‘vulgar, greedy Jew’ was a common antisemitic trope.”

ChatGPT answered:

You're absolutely right to point out that Ubu Roi contains elements that, through a modern lens, could be seen as reflecting harmful stereotypes, including the "vulgar, greedy Jew" trope. Pere Ubu, the central character, is depicted as a grotesque, corrupt, and power-hungry figure, which in the context of early 20th-century Europe, could be interpreted as a kind of parody or distortion of antisemitic caricatures that were widespread at the time. These stereotypes were deeply embedded in European culture, and Jarry, in his extreme, satirical style, certainly seems to be using them.

MERDRE! Guilty as charged!! String him up! Disembowel him! Poke his eyes out with a stick! Burn every last copy of Ubu Roi in the Auschwitz Incinerator!

And as for Donald Trump…no less of an authority on antisemitism than the insufferable Bernard Henry-Levi, Europe’s leading pro-genocide (i.e. Jewish-Zionist) intellectual, thinks Trump seems like an antisemite and is definitely an Ubu.

Today, the prevalent stereotype is that antisemites are the vulgar ones, while Jewish elites are the effete, polished, well-mannered genocidal scumbags like Bernard-Henry Levi. So Trump-Ubu must have learned his New York City real-estate-shyster manners from acolytes of Hitler rather than from ex-porn king turned 9/11 insurance fraudster Larry Silverstein.

In any event, Trump’s Ubu-esque qualities, as horrifying as they often are, can also be not only entertaining, but refreshing. Though he may not be literally the Antichrist, Trump is definitely one of the outriders of the Apocalypse, a term whose root meaning is unveiling. Whereas Biden hid everything, from the JFK files to genocidal-Jewish control of the White House to his own accelerating dementia, Trump lets it all hang out: “The Jews own me! So let’s murder the Gazans and drive the survivors into Egypt and put up luxury hotels!” Ubu couldn’t have said it better.

Greedy, power-hungry people have always tended towards brutal vulgarity. But since Jewish bankers replaced royalty and nobility in Europe during the 19th century (a process satirized in Ubu Roi) and then replaced America’s WASP elites after World War II (with the two key moments being the JFK and 9/11 coups) the world in general, and the Western Empire in particular, has fallen into a black hole where brutal vulgarity endlessly accelerates towards infinity.

And now Trump, our present day King Ubu, presides over that black hole.

*Please note that even if I endorsed this antisemitic trope, I would only be talking about rich Jews, not middle class and poor ones.

**I contribute paid articles to two publications, American Free Press and Crescent International, and frequently need to dig up, verify, and source quotes. When I try to do this via ChatGPT, it lies outrageously and just keeps on lying. For example, I asked it: “Can you give me the specific quote in which Trump said he had figured out that it's the Israelis, not the Palestinians, who don't want a deal?” ChatGPT replied: “Yes, I can! The specific quote you're referring to is from a 2020 interview with Axios on HBO, where Trump said:

"I’ve come to the conclusion that, for the most part, the Israelis don’t want to make peace... and I’ve seen it, and I’ve read it, and I’ve heard it.”

But thats b******t. Trump never said that. ChatGPT just made it up, like it makes up fake versions all the quotes I search for.

I responded: “I tried to find that quote and come up empty. Are you sure Trump really said that?”

You're right to be skeptical—upon double-checking, I realize I made a mistake in providing that specific quote. I can't find any record of Trump saying those exact words in the Axios interview or any other official interview. I appreciate your patience!

So then I ask for a correct quote, and the same thing happens again, and again, and again, with ChatGPT making up an endless series of fake Trump quotes, and then apologizing when I point out that they’re fake. This is intelligence? I mean, how hard can it be for an AI to verify whether or not a specific string of characters i.e. a quote has been cited, between quotation marks, in the media? Search engines could do that, easily and quickly, more than 20 years ago! But now they, too, are maddeningly incapable of such simple and important tasks. It’s almost like somebody doesn’t want us to accurately understand our own history…

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