Tripper Harrison explains the appeal of Donald Trump
Donald Trump tells lies, flip-flops more than a fish on a dock and says incredibly incendiary things about others; and yet his supporters ignore all of that. The question is why and the answer can be found in a scene from a 1979 movie.
The 1979 film Meatballs starred a very young Bill Murray in his first lead role. He portrayed Tripper Harrison and in the following clip he explains why nothing Trump says or does won't erode the fanatical support he is enjoying:
It just doesn't matter. But the question is, why is it that it just doesn't matter. The answer is easy. The people who are supporting Trump aren't that invested in building walls or excluding all Muslims from the U.S. What they want is something different than our federal government has been giving us for the last seven decades.
Trump is a womanizer and no one cares. That's because philandering and sexual harassment/abuse of women has been a problem in the federal government for a long, long time. George H. W. Bush and his appointments assistant Jennifer Fitzgerald had an affair according to former U.S. Ambassador Louis Field in his book The Power House. JFK has several mistresses. LBJ and Alice Glass. FDR and Lucy Mercer.
Political infidelities aren't limited to the White House. The Washington Post published a list of political sex scandals a few years ago. In the years 2010 and 2011, four members of Congress resigned due to sex scandals. It took three years to force Bob Packwood from office over his sexual harassment of female staff members.
So Trump represents nothing new in this area. Yeah, he has filed for bankruptcy protection four times for businesses he controlled. So what? Remember the Congressional check-kiting scandal? California voters didn't hold that against then Representative Barbara Boxer as she successfully ran for the U. S. Senate. This in spite of her Republican opponent referring to her as "Barbara Bouncer." Those who keep sending their incumbent representatives back to D.C. just don't care about the personal financial malfeasance of those they vote for.. Representative Charles Rangel of NY has been reelected multiple times since he was convicted of 11 ethics violations involving tax schemes. He claimed not to have paid taxes on rental income he received from property in the Dominican Republic, because he didn't speak Spanish? At the time he was Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the folks who write the tax codes.
It just doesn't matter. We keep sending the crooks back. People are tired of this. That's the only appeal of Donald Trump that I can see, that he isn't a career politician.
The 1979 film Meatballs starred a very young Bill Murray in his first lead role. He portrayed Tripper Harrison and in the following clip he explains why nothing Trump says or does won't erode the fanatical support he is enjoying:
It just doesn't matter. But the question is, why is it that it just doesn't matter. The answer is easy. The people who are supporting Trump aren't that invested in building walls or excluding all Muslims from the U.S. What they want is something different than our federal government has been giving us for the last seven decades.
Trump is a womanizer and no one cares. That's because philandering and sexual harassment/abuse of women has been a problem in the federal government for a long, long time. George H. W. Bush and his appointments assistant Jennifer Fitzgerald had an affair according to former U.S. Ambassador Louis Field in his book The Power House. JFK has several mistresses. LBJ and Alice Glass. FDR and Lucy Mercer.
Political infidelities aren't limited to the White House. The Washington Post published a list of political sex scandals a few years ago. In the years 2010 and 2011, four members of Congress resigned due to sex scandals. It took three years to force Bob Packwood from office over his sexual harassment of female staff members.
So Trump represents nothing new in this area. Yeah, he has filed for bankruptcy protection four times for businesses he controlled. So what? Remember the Congressional check-kiting scandal? California voters didn't hold that against then Representative Barbara Boxer as she successfully ran for the U. S. Senate. This in spite of her Republican opponent referring to her as "Barbara Bouncer." Those who keep sending their incumbent representatives back to D.C. just don't care about the personal financial malfeasance of those they vote for.. Representative Charles Rangel of NY has been reelected multiple times since he was convicted of 11 ethics violations involving tax schemes. He claimed not to have paid taxes on rental income he received from property in the Dominican Republic, because he didn't speak Spanish? At the time he was Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the folks who write the tax codes.
It just doesn't matter. We keep sending the crooks back. People are tired of this. That's the only appeal of Donald Trump that I can see, that he isn't a career politician.
posted by me at 6:06 PM
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