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His tweets have triggered an unexpectedly heated debate during which he’s been belittled as a killjoy, a pedant, and even a misanthropist.

Of all the presidents, Richard Nixon was a misanthropist, which means a hater of mankind in general.

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It’s also far more rhetorically nuanced and thoughtful than its critics give it credit, a sort of misanthropist’s revelry glossing subtler, darker points about American consumer culture.

From Time

This of course, is from an arch misanthropist who once threw an old lady down the stairs because she was talking too loudly on the landing outside his apartment.

He describes himself as an "equal opportunities misanthropist", saying he's "skewered many more men than women, and possibly more donkeys than both".

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