{"id":81832,"date":"2025-04-22T08:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81832"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:06:22","slug":"trump-mad-bad-or-just-gleefully-cruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/22\/trump-mad-bad-or-just-gleefully-cruel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: mad, bad or just gleefully cruel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are moments when I have to ask whether Trump is mad or bad?<\/p>\n

Then I saw his Easter message, which was this:<\/p>\n

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The answer to the question is that he is very clearly both.<\/p>\n

That message is from a man detached from reality. That is what madness is.<\/p>\n

It is also bad on so many levels.<\/p>\n

The vindictiveness and hatred of so many people implicit in it is bad.<\/p>\n

The language used is most definitely bad because of the sentiments it is trying to create.<\/p>\n

As an action of a President, it is beyond bad.<\/p>\n

And still, the UK is trying to get a deal with him.<\/p>\n

But then, Labour is also rotten to its very core, as I have noted this morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the lens through which we now have to understand politics. Compassion and sanity have departed the scene. We are left with hatred, self-interest and gleeful cruelty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are moments when I have to ask whether Trump is mad or bad? Then I saw his Easter message, which was this: The answer
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