What, 35 years ago?
Buckley and Reagan were friends.
The magazine supported Reagan.
George Will didn't at first, but he didn't speak for the magazine.
Posted on 08/20/2015 1:31:42 PM PDT by Steelfish
Paris Hilton Could Out-Trump Trump in 2016
by Kevin D. Williamson August 20, 2015
Donald Trump’s admirers, like those of Ross Perot in an earlier epoch, cite his business success as his main qualification and believe that the acumen that he has demonstrated in making himself rich enough to do incredibly vulgar things like gold-plating the seatbelt buckles in his airplane is a skill that’s transferable to things like trade policy and immigration law. There may be something to that line of thinking, but Ross Perot is not the entrepreneur whom Trump most closely resembles.
You heard it here first: Paris Hilton 2016. Trump has a great deal in common with Hilton, much more than a famous blond hair-do. Hilton is — or was, more on that in a bit — an heiress to a splendid fortune based in part on real estate. Trump, despite his eternal posturing as novus homo, is a New York City trust-fund brat who inherited a vast real-estate portfolio from his father.
Hilton used her standing as a figure of public interest to create a career for herself as a celebrity, as someone who is “famous for being famous,” as the saying goes. Trump still owns a great deal of real estate, but his largest asset, according to his own financial statements, is his celebrity: He values his personal brand at many billions of dollars, more than any building or golf course or property he owns. .
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Kevin Williamson is such a pathetic nonentity.
NR has descended below the level of a joke.
Jokes are at least funny.
This is from National Review???? Wm. F. Buckley is rolling over in his grave!!
Mr. Trump expanded on what he received from his father and multiplied it many times. Did Miss Hilton do that? You sound jealous, by the way.
More like, Hilton used her figure to stand in the public interest.
How does he stack up to Paris Hilton?
Is Paris more stacked than Trump? I hope so. What a goofy article.
Apparently so.
Being yet another tart with an allegedly "leaked" sex tape,
being a bad actress,
allegedly getting kicked out of gramp's will,
allegedly having an STD,
being obnoxious enough to get featured on South Park (a quick check has Trump mentioned in a news report in S05),
...
Prove it. Trump underperformed with the money he was given and had to be bailed out twice or he would have lost it all. I don’t know about Paris Hilton, but I bet if you compared she did much better.
Prove it. Trump underperformed with the money he was given and had to be bailed out twice or he would have lost it all. I don’t know about Paris Hilton, but I bet if you compared she did much better.
Bailed out by whom?
The Hilton family (Mormons) are worth many billions.
Less than 3 billion, 97% of which went to charities.
People magazine? C’mon!! LOL
What, 35 years ago?
Buckley and Reagan were friends.
The magazine supported Reagan.
George Will didn't at first, but he didn't speak for the magazine.
Then the TDS sufferers at National Review should recruit Paris to be their super standard bearer for president.
https://www.google.com/#q=barron+hilton+gives+fortune+to+charity
Whatever shred of credibility this guy had working for NR was lost about 10 Trump hit pieces ago.
This is pathetic.
Once more, Buckley must be rolling in his grave.
He's their attack dog. After a while it gets hard to turn off the attack reflex. He's got too much invested in it or he takes too much pride in it. It gets hard to suppress it or stop it. Something similar happened with David Frum and Ann Coulter.
Ha ha—I see you already posted my comment!
I love when you guys go to the “high ground” argument when your sources are questioned. Are you and nick in some kind of “He-Man, Donald Trump Haters Club” or something? LOL
It’s called the Ronald Reagan Socialist Fighters Club.
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