In "Trump’s Old News", his commentary for The New York Review of Books on the debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, Fintan O'Toole interprets Trump's rhetoric: "It is hard for Trump to increase the volume when he long ago turned it up to eleven." "Up to eleven" comes from the 1984 Rob Reiner movie "This is Spinal Tap", when Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), guitarist in the band Spinal Tap, brags about how his amplifier dials "go to 11". Tufnel's failure to understand that the labelling of the dial doesn't change the amplifier's volume now marks Trump's increasing inability to ever do anything but shout his outrage. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 17 September 2024)
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