I have the impression that, lately, I’ve pushed away my efforts to write diary articles. One of the reasons for this is that my health state is not the best. It has diminished in the last days, especially after my new exercises in the rehabilitation center. It was very straining, and so I didn’t have any fun writing about my health, my pains, and everything else. Essentially, one of the reasons to write this diary is to overcome my depressive mood, and so I start to write again.
Well, I want to speak today about the language of Mr. Trump. I’m a little—or better, I’m very heavily—surprised by the kind of language of this politician. Politicians have their own way of using language, their own language performance. I can’t help noticing that Trump has a special kind of performance which is quite unusual for a politician. He is always using unsuitable personal remarks. For instance, to say: I like him, I don’t like him, he’s a very nice guy, he’s a very good politician, a terrible human, and so on. Personal evaluations are quite unusual for politicians who are currently in power. In their biographies, it’s more normal that they say such personal things, but not all of them do so. If I look into the memories of Bismarck or Helmut Schmidt, there are remarks that are more neutral and not so personal—not that kind of playground language of children, especially of boys. One of the silliest remarks I heard from Trump lately was that he is disappointed in Vladimir Putin. I think nobody who has observed politics—from our humanistic viewpoint—in the last year can be disappointed by Putin, only somebody who valued Putin can be disappointed by him. What reason did Trump have to value him?