Donald Trump's guide to wrongly thinking people enjoy your anecdotes

TRUMP consistently believes everyone loves his muddled anecdotes and offensive quips, and if you follow his tips this Christmas season so could you! Let the master help:  

Believe their enjoyment is unconnected to you having power over them

Everything I say is met with wild enthusiasm because I’m a genius storyteller, not because they’re sycophants who would lap up my vomit with a smile on their face if I told them to. FBI director Kash Patel can testify to that personally. He particularly enjoyed the gherkin.

Be convinced staring open-mouthed is a sign of approval

It means your interlocutor can’t hear enough. Today I announced I would be replacing the dollar with cryptocurrency, followed by my off-the-cuff thoughts on how slavery was actually very positive for blacks. Everyone enjoyed it so much the gape-jawed silence lasted minutes.

Assume anyone who doesn’t like your anecdotes is low IQ

The only reason someone wouldn’t enjoy my discoursing on topics like magnets and water pressure is a low IQ. That’s when – unlike me – they can’t answer tough questions such as ‘Which of these animals makes the sound “quack”?’ In fact the genius Einstein told me he wished he could IQ as good as me. We met when I studied at Princeton.

Adopt a pompous ‘man of the world’ tone

I always like to sound as if I’m so familiar with any subject I’ve grown weary of it, like when I casually refer to murderous dictators and incredibly brutal drug gangs as ‘bad people’. I’m not saying I know everything. Probably only about 900 per cent.

Be confident in telling the same anecdote again and again

There’s nothing better than a long, misremembered anecdote told for the fifth time. I can tell a story 50 or 100 times and it always gets delighted laughter from people like Pam Bondi, Dr Oz and Pete Hegseth. It’s a shame Pete is a war criminal now for killing those Venezuelans, but that’s what friends are for.

Remember never to take crap from women

Nothing ruins a man’s fascinating stream-of-consciousness anecdote more than a woman, not even pretty, asking a question. Deflect it with a harmless joke like ‘Quiet, piggy!’ Or if you lose your patience, ‘Shut up you dumb f**king bitch!’ is fine. I haven’t said it yet but I will soon.

Avoid Jeffrey Epstein anecdotes

Call it storyteller’s instinct, but people don’t want to hear anecdotes about Jeffrey Epstein. They just don’t! In fact the first time I met Epstein I said, ‘Jeff, you are a very bad person and I am not going to do things with you the Epstein files says I did.’ So you can all stop asking.

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Can you tell the difference between Reform and The Island Of Reject Tories?

EVERYBODY loves Reform, while everybody hates prominent Conservatives who lost their seats at the last election. But are there similarities between the two? 

Jonathan Gullis, new Reform UK member

The same simian member for Stoke-on-Trent North who lost his seat last year? No! This former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party has put his past behind him, found new principles and is unrecognisable! They couldn’t be more different.

Similarities: zero

Chris Green, another new Reform UK member

‘It’s a very common name,’ explains Chris, which is why you might think he was the Conservative MP for Bolton West. In fact he is not somebody who the electorate punished for doing nothing for their deprived area, but someone else.

Similarities: none whatsoever

Lia Nici, also new to Reform

How could anyone be the face of change and an alternative to the Uniparty if they’d previously been parliamentary private secretary to Rishi Sunak? ‘I was only there on work experience, which included being MP for Great Grimsby for five years,’ she clarifies.

Similarities: unrelated, have never met

Danny Kruger, MP for East Wiltshire

Danny, an honest man who would never lie to or mislead his constituents, admits he was once a Tory. ‘But only until I got elected and then I changed sides,’ he says, showing off the breathtaking intellect that makes him such an asset to Reform. ‘I’ve not yet been rejected,’ he adds.

Similarities: so tiny not worth mentioning

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, mayor of Lincolnshire

Always a rebel, especially when she was a staunch backer of prime minister Boris Johnson, Jenkyns is literally a different person to the unpopular politician who Leeds South West and Morley kicked out in 2024. ‘I wear a spangly catsuit and sing songs I wrote myself,’ she explains, ‘and that’s what Britain needs.’

Similarities: superficial

Marco Longhi, Adam Holloway, Sir Jake Berry, Maria Caulfield, Henry Smith, and Sarah Atherton, all Conservative MP who lost their seats last year

Any suggestion of bandwagon jumping is a total lie, these politicians who the public voted out agree. ‘We all had a Damascene conversion and realised Reform was the future,’ they chorus in unison.

Similarities: perhaps 0.000001, if that

Conclusion: everyone can spot the difference between reject Tories and new Reform members, for they are not in any way the same. Remember this at the ballot box.