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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsJust sitting here pondering the characters tRump could replace in The Wizard Of Oz.
The Heartless Tin Man to start.
Please add to the list.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)He's all three at once: No heart, no guts and no brains. And throw in a dash of Flying Monkey.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)rampartc
(5,409 posts)but certainly the cowardly lion " oh i'd fight ya if only I didn't have these terrible bone spurs!"
WomanWhoRoars
(175 posts)Alma Gulch named dept of ed head.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Who is controlled by the Wicked Witch(Putin).
jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)Slap a phone in a flying monkey's hand, and you've got it.
hlthe2b
(102,290 posts)quirky bad, but not evil with the exception of the wicked witch. So, L. Frank Baum would almost have to write an entirely different genre.
That said, he certainly is heartless, cowardly, and brainless.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)a heart, courage and a brain, respectively. Dolt 45 doesn't know or care that he has none of those things. The Flying Monkeys were pretty bad, though. I'd assign those roles to the likes of Lindsey Graham and Kevin McCarthy.
aka-chmeee
(1,132 posts)Everyone else would look and behave like Uriah Heep.