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Pedro Almodóvar: Trump will go down in history as a catastrophe [1]
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Date: 2025-04-30
Academy Award–winning director Pedro Almodóvar, dedicating a film award to the people Trump has deported in recent weeks as well as to Harvard University and a transgender movie star, hit the nail on the head when he said that Trump will “go down in history as a catastrophe.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5273262-pedro-almodovar-trump-deported-migrants-harvard-hunter-schafer/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pedro-almod-var-deems-trump-165349024.html
He also called Trump the “greatest mistake of our time” and that
Your naiveté is only comparable to your violence. You will go down in history as one of the greatest dangers to humanity in this beginning of the century.
The Spanish director, who over his long career has made many widely acclaimed films, such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Talk to Her (2002), and Bad Education (2004), made these remarks as he received the Chaplin Award for career achievement at the Lincoln Center in NYC.
Almodóvar stated that he wished to dedicate his award to “the thousands deported in recent weeks, to the beautiful Hunter Schafer as well, and to Harvard University” for the school’s “determination to not surrender to Trump’s war on knowledge and culture which remain the best weapons to fight lies and misinformation.”
I admire Almodóvar’s words, and particularly their historical perspective. Some day Trump will no longer be in office (retired, in prison, institutionalized, or dead) and once the world has cleaned up the aftermath of his brutally inhumane and catastrophically chaotic presidency, scholars will need to review and classify his administration in the context of US presidential history.
Trump will not do well in this coming review. He is a bloodthirsty halfwit who misuses the grievances of those left behind by social, economic, and technological developments (such as the decline of rust belt industries and the GOP-led destruction of unions), along with assorted fears, prejudices, and phobias, as a means of acting out his childish fantasies of revenge—and be acclaimed for it by cheering crowds of supporters.
Those cheering crowds are the “friends” he never had while growing up. As Mary L. Trump has shown in her recent book Who Could Ever Love You, as a teenager Donald had not a single friend—due to the fact that he was unremittingly rude and obnoxious to everyone around him. From classmates and teachers to neighborhood kids and family members, no one was spared his mockery and contempt.
Growing up without friends can severely impact a person’s mental health, creating a deep sense of loss that they attempt to compensate in other ways. For Trump, the compensation consists in, among other things, giving the world the middle finger while basking in the adulation of those cheering crowds he ostensibly loves (but actually disdains). We are now suffering the consequences.
But as Pedro Almodóvar has reminded us: some day this will be over. And the judgment that history will pronounce on Trump will not be flattering.
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