'Boring psychos' return to power with Trump's election win: Rolling Stone reporter

Donald Trump's election win revealed the "boring psychos" hiding behind the mask of America's wealthy elites, according to a new analysis.

Rolling Stone senior political reporter Asawin Suebsaeng has covered the once and future president's campaign since it was launched, and watching the Election Night celebration reminded him of a phrase that's haunted him throughout the race.

"There has been one line of dialogue from a decade-and-a-half-old movie that has pounded in my brain, unstoppably, right up until the moment I stood in the center of a West Palm Beach convention center, listening to a decrepit, openly racist game-show host feeling himself on election night," Suebsaeng wrote.

In the 2009 film "In The Loop," by satirist and filmmaker Armando Iannucci, one character says to another clearly modeled on former Trump adviser John Bolton, "You know, I’ve come across a lot of psychos, but none as f---ing boring as you."

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"Standing in the center of Trump’s election night 2024 watch party thrown near the president-elect’s Florida home, it was gratuitously apparent just how much the American elites and our ruling class are disproportionately populated by Trump’s most shockingly boring psychos," Suebsaeng wrote.

Suebsaeng saw an analogy for the death of American empire as he watched a MAGA couple dance joylessly to the Village People's disco hit "Y.M.C.A." at Trump's election party, which was populated with rich people he insists are "the super-elite" because they're "richer" and "better-educated."

"The true financial and moral constitution of the elites are typified nowadays by the incredibly boring, fantastically wealthy psychos of the Trump orbit — ranging from Elon Musk, who spent at least $119 million on a pro-Trump Super PAC even though the president-elect thinks he’s a “boring” weirdo; the bosses of the crypto industry; the billionaires who can’t get enough of Trump; the Mitch McConnells of the universe; the literal Kennedy dynasty’s most visible heir;and the overstimulated media titans who run the global Murdoch empire," Suebsang wrote.

Suebsang reached out recently to the filmmaker Iannucci seeking comment on what the reporter described as "Trump's abrasively corny, morally vacant campaign."

“They’re not just boring, they’re totally joyless,” Iannucci said. "Not one of them radiates happiness with life. The more people are alerted to the tense balls of sadness and rage rattling behind their eyes, the better!”