Tranquillus in Exile
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Young Donald's story is a tale of rags to riches. He was eight years old before he became a millionaire, and twenty-five when his father at long last spotted his talent and made him president of the Trump Management Company. He may have received as little as $100 million from his father in his entire life.
He dropped out of Fordham but graduated at Wharton, which makes him a certified genius. By coincidence all four of his grandparents - like those of Benjamin Franklin, who was also a genius - were born in Europe.
What can we say of his many qualities? His mother Mary Anne (also an immigrant) once asked, “What kind of son have I created?” Nobody would tell her.
In a notable intervention in the 1980s, Trump took an interest in five youths (coincidentally black) accused of gang rape in Central Park. He ran a public-spirited campaign referring to "a vicious brand of twisted hatred" and demanding the return of the death penalty. A decade or so later all five were completely exonerated.
Trump's role in promoting the Birther conspiracy theory is well known. He wasn't running against Obama; as far as we can tell he just hated him. Then in 2016 a rare, almost unique event occurred - Trump acknowledged that he had been mistaken in this matter. He blamed Hillary Clinton.
Trump often displays what could be called a creative attitude to questions of fact, apparently believing that the truth is subject to his own whims. Maybe it is and the rest of us don't know.
Who taught him the trick of not paying his subcontractors and forcing them to take him to court? Allegedly it was his former attorney Roy Cohn, McCarthy's hatchet man, who enjoyed a reputation for aggression and deliberate cruelty. Trump is said to have modeled much of his personal style on Cohn - much but not all. Cohn died of AIDS in 1986.
They only met once
This, then, is the white hope of the America Firsters. It went so well before WWII, and they only had some flyboy instead of the Donald then.
He dropped out of Fordham but graduated at Wharton, which makes him a certified genius. By coincidence all four of his grandparents - like those of Benjamin Franklin, who was also a genius - were born in Europe.
What can we say of his many qualities? His mother Mary Anne (also an immigrant) once asked, “What kind of son have I created?” Nobody would tell her.
In a notable intervention in the 1980s, Trump took an interest in five youths (coincidentally black) accused of gang rape in Central Park. He ran a public-spirited campaign referring to "a vicious brand of twisted hatred" and demanding the return of the death penalty. A decade or so later all five were completely exonerated.
Trump's role in promoting the Birther conspiracy theory is well known. He wasn't running against Obama; as far as we can tell he just hated him. Then in 2016 a rare, almost unique event occurred - Trump acknowledged that he had been mistaken in this matter. He blamed Hillary Clinton.
Trump often displays what could be called a creative attitude to questions of fact, apparently believing that the truth is subject to his own whims. Maybe it is and the rest of us don't know.
Who taught him the trick of not paying his subcontractors and forcing them to take him to court? Allegedly it was his former attorney Roy Cohn, McCarthy's hatchet man, who enjoyed a reputation for aggression and deliberate cruelty. Trump is said to have modeled much of his personal style on Cohn - much but not all. Cohn died of AIDS in 1986.
They only met once
This, then, is the white hope of the America Firsters. It went so well before WWII, and they only had some flyboy instead of the Donald then.
