A stable genius' faces flak
That's a hard act to follow in today's India, where the sins of even forefathers are made to visit people.
It is widely felt in Washington that President Donald Trump has a short attention span, repeats himself and refuses to read his briefing notes. Well, the reason why he has no time for chaps who tender advice is that he’s a genius, and no two ways about it. Indeed, he is “a very stable genius”, as he informed the world in a disarming tweet recently.
In autobiographical observations, the President of the world’s most powerful nation, though it’s much less feared than earlier, has let on that “throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart”. The President said: “I went from VERY successful businessman, to top TV star to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius... and a very stable genius at that!”
That’s quite a declamatory effort, and sounded just like that other genius — whose economic policies bring forth dutiful praise from his party — and kindred soul, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had said the first day he entered Parliament: “(Folks, please look) I had entered Gujarat Assembly for the very first time as CM, and now I am entering Parliament for the very first time as PM!”
The trouble is that some journalists love to play contrarian. Michael Wolff, an American, has published a book Inside the Trump White House... which aims to show “the President has no clothes”. That’s a hard act to follow in today’s India, where the sins of even forefathers are made to visit people.