THEY WERE CARELESS PEOPLE

Every time I think I’ve come up with a clever way to describe Donald Trump and his family, I run into someone who has done it so much better.  Here is F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Great Gatsby.  Bonus points for having written it in 1925. 

“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Tip of the hat to Rebecca Solnit for connecting that famous quote to Donald Trump, in an article that clarifies the connection between narcissism and loneliness.  It’s well worth your time.  Here are a couple of quotes from the article to whet your appetite. 

“A hungry ghost always wants the next thing, not the last thing.” 

“One way or another, he knows he has stepped off a cliff, pronounced himself king of the air, and is in freefall.”

 http://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump/