Slavoj Žižek
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…know. Listen, I'm not crazy here. I totally know that. Although, I wonder if you concede one point to me. I still think that Trump is just an extremely vulgar opportunist guy who, as if by mistake, from time to time, did you notice this? He even says…
…brutal, violent Bolshevik women. The ultimate horror and so on. So, what I'm saying is just this. That what interests me with Trump is that, you know, it's chaos, but I'm a Maoist. I would say, under heaven there is disorder, good news, you know.…
…acceptable or not, how you speak and so on. That's why, although I almost sometimes don't think that I have sympathized with Donald Trump. No, no, no, he's a pig. But others are worse Republicans. I claim that it's clear. Did you see what he's recently…
…hope given to us. In the same way that in the United States, the same rage and chaos which gave birth to Donald Trump also gave birth to Sanders, let's hope that The present confusion will also open up the space for European Bernie Sanders. So was…
…to what I was just saying, the first thing to do I think is to impose certain limitations. A couple of months ago, Donald Trump, and he is one of us. In Slovenia, he is very popular. You know why? Because Melanie Trump, his wife, is a Slovene woman.…
…couple of months ago, Donald Trump, and he is one of us. In Slovenia, he is very popular. You know why? Because Melanie Trump, his wife, is a Slovene woman. So we Slovenes are one step from White House. Okay. Donald Trump was unflatteringly compared to…
…You know why? Because Melanie Trump, his wife, is a Slovene woman. So we Slovenes are one step from White House. Okay. Donald Trump was unflatteringly compared to a man who noisily defecates in the corner of a room in which a respectful drinking party is…
…they really getting ready to occupy Texas and so on and so on? So this is how I react to the phenomenon of Donald Trump. The key is this one. I claim he's not a dangerous eccentric. What his excesses mask is his ordinariness. Namely, if you look…
…we like to talk dirty to shock those in power, fuck you and so on. Now, did you notice after our beloved Donald Trump and similar phenomena, it's those in power, right-wingers, who talk dirty. And I totally agree that the left should become, and I'm…
…of that ok, even today we are in an open and dangerous one. Like, you know, rage gives us Bernie Sanders, but also Donald Trump, and so on. On the opposite end, with Syriza, and so on, and I know, I speak from almost inner experience, my friends, I…
…I will start to try to cut it short a little bit. I want to address with a jump what Amy was addressing, Donald Trump problem. You know, my problem is only this one. I think Trump is disgusting. Like, you know, with Trump, I became a racist. Like,…
…I want to address with a jump what Amy was addressing, Donald Trump problem. You know, my problem is only this one. I think Trump is disgusting. Like, you know, with Trump, I became a racist. Like, is this really one of us? no problem with blacks jews…
…Amy was addressing, Donald Trump problem. You know, my problem is only this one. I think Trump is disgusting. Like, you know, with Trump, I became a racist. Like, is this really one of us? no problem with blacks jews arabs but i have problem not being…
…behind, it's much more in somebody like Ted Cruz. Just look at Ted Cruz. So, but nonetheless, something is going on with Trump. What? Do you remember, I always like this example, a wonderful scene from Louis Bunuel's film, Phantom de Liberté, Phantom of…
…there discreetly. And he locks himself in a room and quickly eats sandwiches. So I was always thinking at this scene when Donald Trump was unflatteringly compared to a man who noisily defecates in the corner of a room. I claim this scene from Tome de…
…and if, but we don't live in an ideal world, if the only true election would have been, of course, we all know, Trump versus Bernie Sanders, no? And that's the perversion of ideology. How? From the hegemonic public opinion by the big media, the moment…
…arrest us? I don't know, I just hear the man's going to comment, they're like physically evicted. Should we stick around? Donald Trump is coming. So my apologies to those folks. No, Donald Trump is coming. That's what people accuse me of. As a liberal…
…comment, they're like physically evicted. Should we stick around? Donald Trump is coming. So my apologies to those folks. No, Donald Trump is coming. That's what people accuse me of. As a liberal hypocrite, I will say, let's leave quickly, and then let's…
…it's absolutely crucial for capitalism also the other hysterical aspect. So now the problem is, and that would have been my final Trump card, and I doubt, I'm always surprised why Trump, it would be precisely vulgar at his level, didn't use this. Play…
…hysterical aspect. So now the problem is, and that would have been my final Trump card, and I doubt, I'm always surprised why Trump, it would be precisely vulgar at his level, didn't use this. Play with words, you know. I am the trump card. You say…
…vulgar at his level, didn't use this. Play with words, you know. I am the trump card. You say like this in English, no, Trump, the trump card. Okay, it would be that what then does, what should be our answer to this? I claim the other axis, master…
…7th, Sarah Palin gave an interview to Fox News where she told the interviewer, Quote, I love immigrants, but like Donald Trump, I just think we have too darn many in this country. Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, they are changing up the…
…many people are here, but I know that I don't know that. And then, this was to raise the stakes for the attack on Iran, Trump has said, but there are also things that we don't know, and we even don't know that we don't know them. Like, the idea was…
…famous scene from psychiatric films and cartoons where a cat walks above the precipice and falls down only when it notices that, no? Trump, he was already walking up in the air. He was totally without power, but he didn't know it. Then in 26, I think,…
…is why, let me give you an example. You know that I like this shitty, mysterious, Dan Brown type of, you know that during Trump, of crime, allegedly the piece of cloth bearing the, okay. I spoke with a priest in Milano where they have it, and he told…
…Hussein and his suffering and that whole narrative and, you know, the back, the business. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the original Trump. But in Islam, there's no original sin. So it's a fundamentally different thing. In fact, when they proselytize to non-Muslims,…
…that to emerge. What's your reaction to the justification for it from the other side? So that's the justification from the Trump side, but the justification from the other side, right? You stopped the session the second... that something's said, that there's…
…do, he would be accused of introducing communism or whatever and so on and so on. Boris Johnson temporarily nationalized the British railways. Trump is now invoking that Cold War law which allows him to give direction to run industry and so on and so on,…
…United States, but I mean, let's... I mean, almost, and this is a cruel irony in what I'm saying now, I mean, almost what Trump is doing now, and Trump is not my, when he says we need so many respirators, masks, and so on, giving orders to industry.…
…mean, let's... I mean, almost, and this is a cruel irony in what I'm saying now, I mean, almost what Trump is doing now, and Trump is not my, when he says we need so many respirators, masks, and so on, giving orders to industry. But this has to be…
…local epidemic there. Yeah. No, but real quick, I mean, I want to tease that out, though, because how do you connect that Trump is bullshitting a lot of this? So, like, he says we should do defense production, but he's not actually doing it. He's…
…do defense production, but he's not actually doing it. He's letting them price gouge. Where is the gap between... the rhetoric, which Trump actually does very well at times, but it's not getting implemented as one lane. Then there's the other, and maybe we…
…is maybe this opening up, to reject the market logic. Do you see those three? I see those three horizons. I see the Trump bullshit artistry and we're price gouging and we're doing Reaganism here, which is why it's such a disaster. Then I see people…
…as he's, Now, I will sound horrible. Some leftists will lynch me for saying this. But as if the alternative is China or Trump. Let's look at, okay, Singapore made a mistake because they opened up too fast. Now, it's growing a little bit. But it's sad…
…authority which people trust at least minimally. And from what I hear in the United States, okay, it's not as simple as that. Trump talks a lot. But things are happening at a different level. Governors in some states try to be more efficient and so on…
…at a different level. Governors in some states try to be more efficient and so on and so on. So now we can see how Trump is not an efficient central leader. He talks too much. He is not enough of an efficient leader. That's an interesting so that's a…
…it can be done. The right, it's a very fragile line of opening. Here, I even agreed, sorry for this obscenity speak, Trump, who said that Country cannot be eternally into a lockdown. This is typical upper class idea. Lockdown means all those invisible…