I met Donald Trump at a party once. A girl I barely knew invited me to go with her and her sister to one of those magazine sponsored spectacles during fashion week. It was years ago, but he looked ridiculous even back then. He was standing around posing, with a girl who was a little too young for me on his arm and at least one 'staffer' buzzing about and whispering in his ear.
The people at the party fell into two categories - those that took him seriously in some way and those that did nothing but ridicule him. Guess which group I was in. The other group were mostly the kind of people who are impressed with celebrity for it's own sake. They looked like what you would expect to see hovering around someone like Madonna - mostly flamboyant gay men and shallow annoying women. They were all armor, and no souls. Sandra Bernhard was there I think.
When I squeezed past him on my way to the door I looked him straight in the eye, smiled and said "Nice hair." He gave me a surly 'yeah', and that was it.
So anyway, Donald Trump says he's running for President again.
That'll happen.
The truth is, I'd sooner vote for his daughter than I would for him. She seems a smart, clear headed and very attractive girl - much smarter than her father. She's absolutely better at business than he is, but I don't think she's quite old enough to be President yet.
He on the other hand, is a philandering, loud mouthed ignorant jerk who knows no more about business and finance than my 10 year old daughter, but he still thinks that's enough to allow him to be a kind of combed over leading man for reality TV. He's as vain and shallow a human as our culture of celebrity has ever produced, and apart from Mike Bloomberg, I'd say he's very likely the most arrogant man in New York City.
President? Fat chance. I'd stand a better shot. Why do people let him get away with saying this ridiculous nonsense every 4 years? For me, he fills a similar role to someone like Al Sharpton. I just can't figure out why anyone takes them seriously.
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he's not a good businessman?
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