At least T.S. Eliot’s “hollow men” had the veracity of being empty and lost. Donald Trump is a fake, a man who is not even hollow… rather essentially as real and substantial as his face paint.

And it is a lesson in the realities of history, society, and average men and women of Mankind, that a man of such superficial facts can have such influence on politics and society., even History.
Rome fell. Trump was President.