What Does Trump Smell Like?
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SINCE HE FIRST APPEARED as the kingpin on his reality show, Celebrity Apprentice, there have been rumors about Trump’s allegedly heinous hygiene. Apparently Trump, even back in his early TV days, was no stranger to Depends (diapers), as Apprentice staffer Noel Casler revealed in this video:
It’s whispered that Senator Diane Feinstein’s proximity to one of Trump’s gaseous eruptions might have contributed to her eventual passing some years later—the aftereffects on one’s nervous system (something akin to germ warfare fallout) haven’t been fully documented—but one does wonder. The video below shows her obvious disgust as Trump lets rip during a news conference related to the Pulse nightclub tragedy.
And finally, for those wanting to ‘get into the weeds’ with this open secret, former Representative Adam Kinzinger spills the tea with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel as to what, specifically, Trump smells like for those put into the immediacy of his aura (and its toxic effect on their olfactory system)—CliffNote’s answer: “Armpits, ketchup, makeup, and a little butt…”
As I mentioned in a recent video on TikTok, Trump’s hygiene dilemma is probably related to the Venus-Saturn conjunction in his natal chart. Why? One of the shabbier earmarks associated with Saturn is that of the downtrodden outcast—the black sheep. Saturn sometimes embodies qualities that society considers taboo or unsavory. And, especially in America, where people are obsessed with body odor (to the tune of billions of dollars for the deodorant industry), Trump’s stance is that of the oppositional defiant character who just doesn’t give a fuck (and this relates more to his Mars on his ascendant). But if you want to borrow from alchemical symbology, Saturn has always been associated—literally—with shit. (So there’s that.)
Because we associate Venus with how we present ourselves to others—to be appealing and attractive (IOW, what’s required to hopefully impress or woo them), you can see how Saturn associated with the planet would ‘damage’ or ‘short circuit’ proper hygiene and self-care. Venus then embodies the shadow and radiates it out as is the way with Venus’s alluring nature. If you recall Charles Schulz’s character Pigpen, you have a perfect emblem of Venus conjunct Saturn gone awry.
If Mars repulses (and, again, Trump’s Mars sits on his ascendant, the point where those in the environment first ‘encounter’ us), Venus attracts—or at least attempts to. One wonders what Trump’s life would have been like without the billions of dollars at his disposal to impress and dazzle low-effort souls who find that criteria essential to their social climbing instincts. IOW 90 percent of Americans today.
The more tacit reading of the Venus-Saturn merger is that of the child who longs to be loved (Venus) despite how repugnant (Saturn) they are. It’s sort of the ultimate test for the individual and those in his or her circle. If you ever read Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough, you come away with the same impressions about Trump’s childhood. And, wow—what’s in a title? Too Much (Mars on the ascendant) and Never Enough (Venus conjunct Saturn).
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Opening image from The Charles M. Schulz Musem and Research Center and its recent Pigpen retrospective.
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I can smell it from here /:-(