We had a lot of good movies but Home Alone 2 wasn’t one of them. I don’t understand how anyone in my/our generation fell for the ruse that Donald Trump was a rich, successful businessman.
I wasn’t old enough to drive yet in 1983 when Trump made his debut in the national media. Here was this loudmouth douchebag on a media tour celebrating the fact that he built a tall building in New York City. Big fucking deal. Lots of people have done that. Have you seen the city? Why is this a story? Why should I care? Oh, because he put his name on it? SO FUCKING WHAT?! Why should I care and why am I seeing him get this much media coverage over it? I had a negative reaction to him from the start and nothing changed as time went by.
I saw that he was a frequent character on the cover of the National Enquirer. I thought that made him more of a joke. (It wasn’t until decades later that I learned that was part of his campaign of self-promotion to the rubes.) I watched as his affair with Marla Maples became national news while he was still married to Ivana. I saw how he had some success promoting himself as rich and successful but I also saw that he was the butt of jokes on Johnny Carson and Saturday Night Live.
I watched as he bankrupted his businesses, including casinos where the house is supposed to always win. I watched as he was forced to sell his private jet. I watched as as he was reduced to making commercials for laundry detergent and fast food.
Oh but look, he’s wearing a tuxedo. I guess that means he’s still got class.
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i watched him ditch Marla for Melania, some Eastern Bloc gold-digger. I always found him to be a repulsive, cartoonish character. I never watched The Apprentice because I thought he was a joke for my entire adult life and then some. I thought everyone saw him that way. I never dreamed that so many people took him seriously, least of all others from my generation.