Don’t know if this makes any sense if you haven’t seen John Oliver’s (above) epic takedown of Trump (my wife was nonplussed), but the image below is my first effort at agitprop. This is the perfect time to point out that Trump was accused, today, of leading his followers in a pledge which looked suspiciously like a Nazi “Heil Hitler” salute which prompted the Washington Post to accuse Trump of flirting with fascism.
Here’s the Gray Lady’s coverage of Trump’s Tuesday electoral successes. Nothing, it would seem, can slow his progress to the Republican nomination:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/us/politics/primary-elections-michigan.html
My recent commentary set the stage for Mitt Romney’s anti-Trump speech a week later. Romney’s speech took place during the middle of a workday. Oregon Public Broadcasting broke away from their regularly scheduled programming– like Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds— and broadcast the entire speech live. Clearly they believed at the time that Romney was launching a very important speech. They were quickly proven wrong when Trump simply swatted Romney away with well-chosen insults.
Because of his ability to sidestep and nullify attacks by political opponents, I’d like to direct a little more light on Trump and his surprisingly durable political campaign. I’ve located some shareable media wherein gifted New York writers comically air their unsatisfactory experiences with Trump. Perhaps humor will succeed where Romney and common sense have failed.
In this video, writer Mark Singer recounts his experience of writing a profile of Donald Trump.
The most interesting part of the NPR interview below is Graydon Carter’s explanation why Vanity Fair hasn’t done a Trump story recently. They said that they kept thinking he would fade in the 6-7 weeks it would take to write up a piece, and they wouldn’t be able to use it. Seems like the more people know about Trump, the more mystified they are at his success up to now.
They also mentioned sending $0.32 and $0.16 checks to Trump and other celebrities, to see who would actually go to the trouble of cashing them. Adnan Kashoggi and Donald Trump were the only celebrities cashing the $0.16 checks. Very similar to Marc Singer’s (above) story, though his check was $32.78.
