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Sunday, August 02, 2015
Well this ought to be fun.
Hmm, movie about Donald Trump, that Donald Trump does not want me to watch.
He has had 2 out of 3 wives so far from overseas. I guess American women either do not fill the needs, or are just TOO smart to even get imvolved with him.
Cannot imagine having to show affection to Donald Trump! Makes me want to hurl even thinking about it!
It's obvious having money has worked for him in having non American women as wives - his wives were and are all immigrants - listen to each of them speak in interviews!
Trump walks the line as one of the most insecure men who have ever drawn breath and one of the most egotistical. If you want to know truly who he is and how insecure he is . . . get a look at the "yacht" he used to tool around in.
...Yes, Trump wasn’t, as you can imagine, thrilled at the thought of his dirty laundry being aired for all to see, reacting much the same way then as he does today – with bluster and threats of legal action. And these were techniques that carried more weight two decades ago, successfully burying the documentary by cutting off any outlet for it to be seen.
“He did everything he could to suppress this documentary,” Handros continued. “And back in the day when we made the film, there were only a handful of networks. You had a few independent entities, but everything was controlled by big corporations, the three networks. And Donald was threatening lawsuits and stuff and they just didn’t need to take that on, even if the lawsuit would have no merit in the end.”
Donald Trump is turning US politics into a (bad) reality show
...If you ever wondered what it would be like if a 12-year-old boy ran for president, Trump has provided you with an answer. He is thin-skinned, melodramatic, petulant, impulsive, loud-mouthed, obnoxious, boastful, crude and shameless and, like many adolescents, he has at best a casual relationship with the truth. He simply makes things up as he goes along, and even when reporters point out that, for example, illegal immigrants are not responsible for a significant amount of crime (a regular Trump talking point) he merely brushes it off or criticises the media for misreporting his words.
Indeed, his entire public persona is completely incongruous. Trump is a populist billionaire, married to a former supermodel, lives in a palatial apartment in New York City and yet is adopting the image of a man of the people who will speak unpleasant truths. In a recent focus group of New Hampshire Republicans who support Trump, one of those present said: “He’s like one of us.”
Donald Trump Empire Sought Visas For At Least 1,100 Foreign Workers
While touting his hardline on immigration on the campaign trail for the GOP presidential nomination, Trump's companies have been recruiting foreign workers.
There’s no doubt his persona inspires descriptions as florid and memorable as the man himself. He’s “a barking carnival act” and “bloviating Godzilla,” He’s “a Mobius strip seamlessly moving from perception to reality,” “the world’s greatest troll” and a “superhero – but not in a good way.”
He is a “loose-haired agent of chaos,” with “the complexion of a creamsicle,” whose “hair swirls atop his head with disconcerting translucence -- a cotton candy sculpture in the shape of a vending machine honey bun.” Trump’s “suits have a cut and sheen as if they came from the trunk sale of a visiting Bombay tailor staying in a cheap hotel in Trump’s native Queens and taking a nip between fittings.”
His stage presence is the result of “method acting that eventually supplanted whatever human-like personality he once possessed.” He is a “fat-haired yapping caricature of capitalism” currently “yelling crazy shit on his way through a Republican presidential primary while sporting a sad trombone haircut” as he serves up “a smelly soup of billionaire populism and yahoo nationalism—all flavored with a tangy dollop of old-timey racism.”
But wade through the purple prose and you will bark your shins on the same few points again and again. Almost all of Trump’s exhaustive coverage – both reporting and analysis — falls into a few categories.
Anne Marie Cox's summing up, "I’m not sure if pop culture can offer the exact right avatar for Trump—but A Face in the Crowd is still instructive, we just need to cast it differently. Lonesome Rhodes isn’t Trump, he’s us, he’s me—he’s the media in general.
The richness of our language about Trump as a man exposes the poverty of our analysis of him as a phenomenon. His refusal to go away exposes the superfluousness of our predictions.
The churn of “Trump takes” is a real-time erosion of confidence in our ability to the only real service punditry provides: to make sense of what’s happening.
His survival has shown how ephemeral narratives can be, and how permanent biases are. Our failure to adequately explain Trump, to tame him, reveals machinations and mistakes that usually go unnoticed.
The Trump candidacy is the media’s ongoing hot mic moment. What we talk about when we talk about Trump is ourselves."
The video, dated 1988, featured Donald Trump giving an interview to Oprah Winfrey about American policy. During the interview, Trump said many of the things he has been saying recently about what is wrong with America.
“I’d make our allies pay their fair share. We’re a debtor nation,” he said. “Something’s going to happen over the next number of years with this country. You can’t keep going on losing $200 billion.”
When asked if he would ever consider running for president, Trump said wasn’t likely, but wouldn’t discount the idea completely.
He did say that if he ran, he would have a “helluva chance” at winning, based on his belief that Americans were tired of seeing America taken advantage of.
Donald Trump’s Instinct for Racially Charged Rhetoric, Before His Presidential Bid
Under a dark photograph showing hypodermic needles and drug paraphernalia, the newspaper advertisement warned in dire terms that violent criminals were coming to town. “Are these the new neighbors we want?” the paid message asked. “The St. Regis Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.”
The ad, part of an advocacy campaign meant to stop a casino from being built in New York’s Catskill region, drew an indignant response from the tribe, which called it a naked appeal to racism. The incendiary ads, which ran in upstate newspapers in February 2000, were the work of the New York Institute for Law and Society, an opaque interest group that described itself as opposed to casino gambling.
It was only later that the man who bankrolled the ads identified himself: Donald J. Trump.
...While the tweet reads as nothing more than Trump’s typical bombast—more bluster than substance—the Republican frontrunner seems to be invoking a secretive political organization that dates back to the first days of the Republican Party: The Know Nothings.
Trump pours cold water on idea of Sarah Palin as his running mate!!!
KARL: Running mate: Sarah Palin said some very nice things about you, you've said some nice things about her. Will you consider her as a possible running mate?
TRUMP: Well, I don't think she'd want to, because at the -- the answer is -- you know, I like Sarah Palin a lot. I think Sarah Palin has got the very unfair press. I think the press has treated her very unfairly.But I would pick somebody that would be a terrific -- you know, you have to view it as really who would be a good president in case something happened. But I would -- there are many, many people out there that I think would be very good.
I was 100% sure he would NEVER pick Sarah Palin as his running mate and I was right! He's not that much of an idiot!
I so like hearing him answer questions directly. Most of the other members in the Republican clown car don't do it! Trump is good for the country right now although I'd never vote for him or a Republican!
But I would pick somebody that would be a terrific -- you know, you have to view it as really who would be a good president in case something happened. -------- Diplomatic way to state SHE IS TOO IGNORANT. Wanna bet that one went way over her head and wig.
In other words, Trump believes that the barbaric practices of ISIS should be the "standard of comparison" for the ethical treatment of prisoners. Got it.
It is well worth viewing. The hair has been using the same bombastic language, bullying tactics, half truths & lies for decades to get his way. He hasn't matured, mellowed or become a better human being during the years. The damage to our country's standing around the world with him in charge is unmeasurable. He reminds me of Putin with very bad hair.
It's fascinating to see the old film and see he's still the same repulsive, loud-mouth bully. More recently, he tried to stop BBC from airing the documentary "You've Been Trumped" about building his golf course in Scotland.
Top Trump adviser has a history of provocative and racial Facebook posts
...Trump's campaign-finance reports show Nunberg is one of eight people who were paid political advisers on his campaign from April through the start of this month. During that period, the reports show Nunberg received $15,139 from the Trump campaign.
Nunberg has been with the campaign since at least 2014. Early that year he was fired after urging Trump to participate in an unflattering BuzzFeed profile. He was subsequently hired again as Trump prepared to launch his presidential campaign.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign said Sunday it fired a staffer after racially charged Facebook posts he allegedly wrote were uncovered Friday.
Effective immediately, Sam Nunberg, a Trump political adviser, is "no longer associated with the Donald J. Trump for president campaign," Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski confirmed to CNN.
I just binge-read eight books by Donald Trump. Here’s what I learned.
...Sitting down with the collected works of Donald J. Trump is unlike any literary experience I’ve ever had or could ever imagine. I spent this past week reading eight of his books — three memoirs, three business-advice titles and his two political books, all published between 1987 and 2011 — hoping to develop a unified theory of the man, or at least find a method in the Trumpness.
Instead, I found . . . well, is there a single word that combines revulsion, amusement, respect and confusion? That is how it feels, sometimes by turns, often all at once, to binge on Trump’s writings. Over the course of 2,212 pages, I encountered a world where bragging is breathing and insulting is talking, where repetition and contradiction come standard, where vengefulness and insecurity erupt at random.
We unearthed Donald Trump's Vine account from 2013. He wasn't active for very long, but in his short stint on the social account he addressed Obama, Miley Cyrus, and ripped Anthony Weiner.
Thanks for the link, I watched a lot of it and will have to finish watching. It's an older documentary, but one thing remains the same, Trump hasn't changed much as far as his overinflated ego and litigious quest for more wealth. I wonder if he'll use the same tactics to build the wall to stop the immigrants from coming in? Thanks for the link, I'll have to watch the rest. My niece went to U of Penn, and shared classes with Ivanka. Says she didn't seem to care much about classes, and was whisked away to New York at her whim on daddy's private heelycopter. Guess she was "too good" to live among the peons in the dormitory. She only socialized with Ivanka through a few mutual friends, but she seemed pretty normal despite her wealth.
He has had 2 out of 3 wives so far from overseas. I guess American women either do not fill the needs, or are just TOO smart to even get imvolved with him.
ReplyDeleteCannot imagine having to show affection to Donald Trump! Makes me want to hurl even thinking about it!
DeleteIt's obvious having money has worked for him in having non American women as wives - his wives were and are all immigrants - listen to each of them speak in interviews!
There's a certain pregnant somebody in Wasilla who would trip him and beat him to the floor for a chance at the high life.
DeleteTrump gives me the creeps kinda along the same lines of Cruz.
DeleteI watched it last night.
ReplyDeleteTrump walks the line as one of the most insecure men
who have ever drawn breath and one of the most egotistical.
If you want to know truly who he is and how insecure he is . . .
get a look at the "yacht" he used to tool around in.
Someone is overcompensating . . .
This will definitely be fun!!! And on Tuesday there will be a real whopper of a news story along similar lines. #August4th
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteThe Doc Trump Fought Decades To Kill
...Yes, Trump wasn’t, as you can imagine, thrilled at the thought of his dirty laundry being aired for all to see, reacting much the same way then as he does today – with bluster and threats of legal action. And these were techniques that carried more weight two decades ago, successfully burying the documentary by cutting off any outlet for it to be seen.
“He did everything he could to suppress this documentary,” Handros continued. “And back in the day when we made the film, there were only a handful of networks. You had a few independent entities, but everything was controlled by big corporations, the three networks. And Donald was threatening lawsuits and stuff and they just didn’t need to take that on, even if the lawsuit would have no merit in the end.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/01/watch-the-doc-trump-fought-to-kill.html
Donald Trump’s Douchebaggiest Interview Ever: ‘Any Girl You Have, I Can Take From You’
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/02/donald-trump-s-douchebaggiest-interview-ever-any-girl-you-have-i-can-take-from-you.html
Donald Trump is turning US politics into a (bad) reality show
ReplyDelete...If you ever wondered what it would be like if a 12-year-old boy ran for president, Trump has provided you with an answer. He is thin-skinned, melodramatic, petulant, impulsive, loud-mouthed, obnoxious, boastful, crude and shameless and, like many adolescents, he has at best a casual relationship with the truth. He simply makes things up as he goes along, and even when reporters point out that, for example, illegal immigrants are not responsible for a significant amount of crime (a regular Trump talking point) he merely brushes it off or criticises the media for misreporting his words.
Indeed, his entire public persona is completely incongruous. Trump is a populist billionaire, married to a former supermodel, lives in a palatial apartment in New York City and yet is adopting the image of a man of the people who will speak unpleasant truths. In a recent focus group of New Hampshire Republicans who support Trump, one of those present said: “He’s like one of us.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/donald-trump-republican-presidential-nomination
All these rich guys with businesses hire folks for whom they can pay low wages. The people include the Chinese, blacks and Mexicans.
DeleteIt's a proven fact and the way our world operates and has always operated!
America is no different than other countries. We have documented sweat shops in our country too!
Donald Trump Empire Sought Visas For At Least 1,100 Foreign Workers
ReplyDeleteWhile touting his hardline on immigration on the campaign trail for the GOP presidential nomination, Trump's companies have been recruiting foreign workers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-empire-sought-visas-for-at-least-1100-foreign-workers_55bc2c8ee4b06363d5a2615f?
There’s no doubt his persona inspires descriptions as florid and memorable as the man himself. He’s “a barking carnival act” and “bloviating Godzilla,” He’s “a Mobius strip seamlessly moving from perception to reality,” “the world’s greatest troll” and a “superhero – but not in a good way.”
ReplyDeleteHe is a “loose-haired agent of chaos,” with “the complexion of a creamsicle,” whose “hair swirls atop his head with disconcerting translucence -- a cotton candy sculpture in the shape of a vending machine honey bun.” Trump’s “suits have a cut and sheen as if they came from the trunk sale of a visiting Bombay tailor staying in a cheap hotel in Trump’s native Queens and taking a nip between fittings.”
His stage presence is the result of “method acting that eventually supplanted whatever human-like personality he once possessed.” He is a “fat-haired yapping caricature of capitalism” currently “yelling crazy shit on his way through a Republican presidential primary while sporting a sad trombone haircut” as he serves up “a smelly soup of billionaire populism and yahoo nationalism—all flavored with a tangy dollop of old-timey racism.”
But wade through the purple prose and you will bark your shins on the same few points again and again. Almost all of Trump’s exhaustive coverage – both reporting and analysis — falls into a few categories.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/01/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-trump.html
52% of Repubs want him to stay in the race.
DeleteAnne Marie Cox's summing up, "I’m not sure if pop culture can offer the exact right avatar for Trump—but A Face in the Crowd is still instructive, we just need to cast it differently. Lonesome Rhodes isn’t Trump, he’s us, he’s me—he’s the media in general.
The richness of our language about Trump as a man exposes the poverty of our analysis of him as a phenomenon. His refusal to go away exposes the superfluousness of our predictions.
The churn of “Trump takes” is a real-time erosion of confidence in our ability to the only real service punditry provides: to make sense of what’s happening.
His survival has shown how ephemeral narratives can be, and how permanent biases are. Our failure to adequately explain Trump, to tame him, reveals machinations and mistakes that usually go unnoticed.
The Trump candidacy is the media’s ongoing hot mic moment. What we talk about when we talk about Trump is ourselves."
Blah, blah, blah...
ReplyDeletehttp://assets.amuniversal.com/cc55ed101a0c0133f9c0005056a9545d
The video, dated 1988, featured Donald Trump giving an interview to Oprah Winfrey about American policy. During the interview, Trump said many of the things he has been saying recently about what is wrong with America.
ReplyDelete“I’d make our allies pay their fair share. We’re a debtor nation,” he said. “Something’s going to happen over the next number of years with this country. You can’t keep going on losing $200 billion.”
When asked if he would ever consider running for president, Trump said wasn’t likely, but wouldn’t discount the idea completely.
He did say that if he ran, he would have a “helluva chance” at winning, based on his belief that Americans were tired of seeing America taken advantage of.
http://conservativetribune.com/uncovered-trump-interview/
Donald Trump’s Instinct for Racially Charged Rhetoric, Before His Presidential Bid
ReplyDeleteUnder a dark photograph showing hypodermic needles and drug paraphernalia, the newspaper advertisement warned in dire terms that violent criminals were coming to town. “Are these the new neighbors we want?” the paid message asked. “The St. Regis Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.”
The ad, part of an advocacy campaign meant to stop a casino from being built in New York’s Catskill region, drew an indignant response from the tribe, which called it a naked appeal to racism. The incendiary ads, which ran in upstate newspapers in February 2000, were the work of the New York Institute for Law and Society, an opaque interest group that described itself as opposed to casino gambling.
It was only later that the man who bankrolled the ads identified himself: Donald J. Trump.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/nyregion/trumps-instinct-for-racially-charged-rhetoric-before-his-presidential-bid.html
Sounds like Sarah's leanings...
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump Isn’t The First Know Nothing
...While the tweet reads as nothing more than Trump’s typical bombast—more bluster than substance—the Republican frontrunner seems to be invoking a secretive political organization that dates back to the first days of the Republican Party: The Know Nothings.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122427/donald-trump-isnt-first-know-nothing-capture-american-hearts
Trump pours cold water on idea of Sarah Palin as his running mate!!!
ReplyDeleteKARL: Running mate: Sarah Palin said some very nice things about you, you've said some nice things about her. Will you consider her as a possible running mate?
TRUMP: Well, I don't think she'd want to, because at the -- the answer is -- you know, I like Sarah Palin a lot. I think Sarah Palin has got the very unfair press. I think the press has treated her very unfairly.But I would pick somebody that would be a terrific -- you know, you have to view it as really who would be a good president in case something happened. But I would -- there are many, many people out there that I think would be very good.
I was 100% sure he would NEVER pick Sarah Palin as his running mate and I was right! He's not that much of an idiot!
DeleteI so like hearing him answer questions directly. Most of the other members in the Republican clown car don't do it! Trump is good for the country right now although I'd never vote for him or a Republican!
But I would pick somebody that would be a terrific -- you know, you have to view it as really who would be a good president in case something happened.
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Diplomatic way to state SHE IS TOO IGNORANT.
Wanna bet that one went way over her head and wig.
Trump, like Hefner and so many others, is damn lucky he has money. Not for a BILLION dollars, Donny baby, not a chance!
ReplyDeleteI watched the first 30 minutes of it yesterday. It was made at a low point in Trump's financial fortunes, so it's dated.
ReplyDeleteBut I was born in 1985. In Texas. I never realized just what this guy was in new York. The very embodiment of obnoxious greed and excess for decades.
People should watch it.
In other words, Trump believes that the barbaric practices of ISIS should be the "standard of comparison" for the ethical treatment of prisoners.
ReplyDeleteGot it.
Ywc2
ReplyDeleteIt is well worth viewing. The hair has been using the same bombastic language, bullying tactics, half truths & lies for decades to get his way. He hasn't matured, mellowed or become a better human being during the years. The damage to our country's standing around the world with him in charge is unmeasurable. He reminds me of Putin with very bad hair.
It's fascinating to see the old film and see he's still the same repulsive, loud-mouth bully. More recently, he tried to stop BBC from airing the documentary "You've Been Trumped" about building his golf course in Scotland.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/22/donald-trump-bbc-film-row
And then he sued the government of Scotland for building a wind farm, claiming they abused his civil rights.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/11/donald-trump-irish-golf-scotland-windfarm
More viewing fun:
a shorter documentary about the golf course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADecI4xw-yg
"You've Been Trumped"
http://www.hulu.com/watch/697241
"A Dangerous Game"
http://www.adangerousgamemovie.com/#watch-now
Top Trump adviser has a history of provocative and racial Facebook posts
ReplyDelete...Trump's campaign-finance reports show Nunberg is one of eight people who were paid political advisers on his campaign from April through the start of this month. During that period, the reports show Nunberg received $15,139 from the Trump campaign.
Nunberg has been with the campaign since at least 2014. Early that year he was fired after urging Trump to participate in an unflattering BuzzFeed profile. He was subsequently hired again as Trump prepared to launch his presidential campaign.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-advisers-racist-facebook-posts-2015-7
Trump campaign fires staffer over Facebook posts
Donald Trump's presidential campaign said Sunday it fired a staffer after racially charged Facebook posts he allegedly wrote were uncovered Friday.
Effective immediately, Sam Nunberg, a Trump political adviser, is "no longer associated with the Donald J. Trump for president campaign," Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski confirmed to CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/trump-adviser-sam-nunberg-facebook-posts/index.html
I just binge-read eight books by Donald Trump. Here’s what I learned.
ReplyDelete...Sitting down with the collected works of Donald J. Trump is unlike any literary experience I’ve ever had or could ever imagine. I spent this past week reading eight of his books — three memoirs, three business-advice titles and his two political books, all published between 1987 and 2011 — hoping to develop a unified theory of the man, or at least find a method in the Trumpness.
Instead, I found . . . well, is there a single word that combines revulsion, amusement, respect and confusion? That is how it feels, sometimes by turns, often all at once, to binge on Trump’s writings. Over the course of 2,212 pages, I encountered a world where bragging is breathing and insulting is talking, where repetition and contradiction come standard, where vengefulness and insecurity erupt at random.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2015/07/30/i-just-binge-read-eight-books-by-donald-trump-heres-what-i-learned/?tid=pm_opinions_pop_b
We unearthed Donald Trump's Vine account from 2013. He wasn't active for very long, but in his short stint on the social account he addressed Obama, Miley Cyrus, and ripped Anthony Weiner.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-vine-account-president-social-media-anthony-weiner-miley-cyrus-obama-2015-7
Thanks for the link, I watched a lot of it and will have to finish watching. It's an older documentary, but one thing remains the same, Trump hasn't changed much as far as his overinflated ego and litigious quest for more wealth.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he'll use the same tactics to build the wall to stop the immigrants from coming in?
Thanks for the link, I'll have to watch the rest.
My niece went to U of Penn, and shared classes with Ivanka. Says she didn't seem to care much about classes, and was whisked away to New York at her whim on daddy's private heelycopter. Guess she was "too good" to live among the peons in the dormitory. She only socialized with Ivanka through a few mutual friends, but she seemed pretty normal despite her wealth.