Trump, Vulgarity, and the Entitlement of the 21st Century TyCoon Show

Trump, Vulgarity, and the Entitlement of the 21st Century TyCoon Showby Anthony Kelley | special to NewBlackMan (in Exile)
The term has a history as a common racial slur to denigrate African-Americans: "coon." And in the late 19th century, the term reached what became its apogee of parlance in American vernacular culture as a substitute verb, describing performances of the most disturbing order. By the time they achieved a staggering level of popularity and success as American entertainment, “Coon Show” was a common synonym for such performances instead of the paradoxically more dignified phrase to describe "Blackface Minstrelsy."
Baked into the toxic dessert that served millions of paying audiences their titillating cakewalks in that era was the fact that any performer who participated in these shows (and yes, racial minstrels came in all colors beneath their coal-ash based makeup--see Marlon Riggs's laser-precise documentary, Ethnic Notions (1986),  or the more fictionalized Spike Lee work, Bamboozled (2000) for background--had to navigate their conscience through what has become a rather commonplace dilemma in today's media: In order to achieve or secure monetary gain, how far am I willing to debase standards of decent human behavior in a public forum?
Until the year 2015, we have never seen a U.S. Presidential candidate intentionally offer in speeches, on a live mic, in large, video-recorded public assemblies, words that so grotesquely cross the line of what the FCC must consider obscenity. But recently, on multiple occasions, the candidate leading in national polls of the (formerly?) "family values"-based Republican party, Donald J.  Trump, has crossed this line with reckless abandon, leading to moments like this.  
Fox News, the RNC, and Talk Radio have shown exactly zero backbone in calling out the indecency or vulgarity of their dirty golden boy. Meanwhile, over 12 other candidates--some even having to drop out of the race in the obscene, onerous shadow of the front runner--have expressed themselves with linguistic self control, for the most part. And yet, the crowds stand by their Curser In Chief.
Even Trump's star endorser, the faux-evangelical Sarah Palin, who seems to now support the idea that "kick ISIS's (the ignorant, vocabulary-limited word of choice for backside)" is a perfectly acceptable and role model-worthy public discourse for all observing children and people of conscience. (In all fairness, our current President, a Democrat, should accept some blame for contributing to today's Pandora's Box of irresponsible political language. But Palin's relatively benign dip into naughty language makes sense, when the vulgar leader of this group, hyped up on the jingoistic caffeine of the tea that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly have served their so called "tea party" for a decade, is dropping f- and s-bombs  with no remorse.
The post-Trumpian Republican inebriation with the performance of hatred and denigration, coupled with their desire to remain rich and famous, dissolved their frameworks of decent public, amplified verbal expression, much like minstrel performers who contributed to (and sometimes continue to) the mockery of an oppressed people during and after the era of Blackface Minstrelsy.
Based on the fanatical cheers of Trump's minions, there is a groundswell of support for our nation to become more tacky and vulgar than we have ever been. I wonder if the same followers would support eliminating FCC standards? You know, that "freedom of speech" that so many claim to espouse for themselves while trying to control in others? (See O'Reilly's discomfort with actual free speech in this interview with Cam'ron and Dash).
To Trump, having achieved Tycoon status is his license to perform a TyCoon show of the highest order in politics: rich entitlement that readily overrides most of America's  expectations of a public national leader's responsible public language. These expectations are, in fact, explicitly (pun fully intended) prescribed in American legal norms; But Trump, in his rambling, self-absorbed inanity and profanity, intentionally violates our nation's resolved norms.
If a survey asked America if taking a drag from a cigarette and blowing the smoke into a four year old's face is acceptable, a resounding "no" would be a reasonable consensus.  But in his post hip-hop trolling state, Trump embodies the classic scenario of a rich, egotistical bully blowing toxic smoke into the face of a non-smoker while standing in a building full of signs saying "No Smoking Allowed On Premises."
If this purported future President cannot even demonstrate the discipline to adhere to codes of decent language as designated by Congress, why would anyone believe for a second that he could exercise an inkling of restraint in the most powerful office in the land? And might the brash disregard of basic human courtesy regularly enacted in Trump's rich, entitled, white face TyCoon show of a campaign eventually devolve into a presidency of flippant and brutal disregard of our laws against Congress and the people? You betcha.
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Anthony M. Kelley is a Musical Composer.