What Godzilla can teach us about Donald Trump

He tramples things without intending to.

He was created by us.

He never permanently goes away.

In recent years, metaphorical representations of Donald Trump as the Japanese kaiju Godzilla have become common.

Now, a paper published in De Gruyter Brill's The Forum argues that the Showa period Godzilla films (1954–75) can be read as an allegory of Trump's political career from 2016–24. ...