In Roald Dahl’s “Matilda,” the 1988 children’s classic, the 5½-year-old heroine enjoys such pluck and precocious wit that she escapes not only her neglectful parents and the authoritarian headmistress of her school but also the entire unfeeling and unthinking adult world.
It’s an ability that many might prize as the adult conversation in Washington revolves around sexual assault, death threats and binge drinking.
As the Roald Dahl Story Company prepared to mark the 30th anniversary of the novel, it asked the British public to weigh in on a replacement for Miss Trunchbull, the villainous headmistress. A survey asked who Matilda’s present-day antagonist would be.
Theresa May, the British prime minister, came in second, and Piers Morgan, the television presenter, third.
Topping the poll with 42 percent of the vote was President Trump.
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