Trump hate is a distinct and unique phenomenon and deserves a little analysis. The reasons why people dislike him as a public personality are obvious and numerous. He is gratuitously impolite to foreign leaders and countries, and his treatment of Canada has been outrageous. His complaints about Europe and about “allies” that in fact render no assistance to the United States, and essentially sponged off the military and economic power of that country since the end of the Cold War, are generally justified, but by traditional diplomatic standards could be more elegantly expressed. Trump is a charming man personally, and in these matters, he is pitching to the army of his supporters, and some of the antagonism he arouses is a domestic political advantage.