Late stage colonialism with narcissist characteristics.

I kinda get why some people have wanted to laugh about Trump. I don't really find it funny because of the real harm that goes with it, but it does feel almost like a RL setup and punchline that they went to all this effort creating this narrative about how Russian was supposedly meddling in USian elections in subtle and shady ways. And then Trump does this swaggering attitude like "yeah I interfered in an election today, it was a good day of interference, I look forward to more." Whatever is the opposite of subtlety, he is that. He is the empire proud of its own barbarism, personified.