Donald Trump Is a Good President, by Michel HouellebecqTranslated by John Cullen

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Donald Trump Is a Good President

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One foreigner’s perspective

In all sincerity, I like Americans a lot; I’ve met many lovely people in the United States, and I empathize with the shame many Americans (and not only “New York intellectuals”) feel at having such an appalling clown for a leader.

However, I have to ask—and I know what I’m requesting isn’t easy for you—that you consider things for a moment from a non-American point of view. I don’t mean “from a French point of view,” which would be asking too much; let’s say, “from the point of view of the rest of the world.”

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 is a French author, filmmaker, poet, and photographer, whose last novel, Soumission, was published by Flammarion in 2015.


 


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