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Is Trump a modern day John Wayne?
Self | 8/26/2015 | Boomer

Posted on 08/26/2015 12:55:14 PM PDT by Boomer

In watching the interaction with Trump and Ramos I thought of John Wayne when Trump told Ramos to sit down several times and then a final time with authority.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3mj51qagx0

I like to think John Wayne wouldn't have put up with the rudeness from Ramos either.

I dunno. Maybe Trump is a cross between John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Ronald Reagan, and of course, himself in many ways.

One thing is for sure; I know I'm tired of weak effeminate male leaders of which we have far too many in DC now starting with obummer, McConnell, and Boehner. I hate to admit it but Reid and Pelosi have bigger cajones than our current congressional leadership.

What say you?


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To: Boomer

The only movie character that Trump reminds me of is the Terminator. Yes I know John Wayne was not a movie character.


61 posted on 08/26/2015 2:28:30 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Boogieman

To make the association of Trump to John Wayne is apples to oranges. I give Boomer a fail for trying to make the connection.


62 posted on 08/26/2015 2:32:27 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: nickcarraway

The idol worship among Trump supporters around here is almost...dare I say...Obamabot-esque. Hope and Change 2016!


63 posted on 08/26/2015 2:33:35 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: jonrick46

Actually, Bedtime for Bonzo is quite a good movie with a well written, intelligent and entertaining script, and very good acting. I think it is truly one of the great under-rated classics of Hollywood comedies.


64 posted on 08/26/2015 2:46:56 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: greene66

Oh, Green - leave it to you to bring up Lee Tracy - why I love you, lol!

I compared Trump to Leo Gorcey in “Dead End” yesterday when he uttered the immortal “Siiiiiiiiiiiiit down.” If only he had given Ramos the mark of the squealer!

That said, Wayne was quintessentially the Western hero. Trump, while I won’t call him a hero, is quintessentially a New Yorker - an Easterner - a Queens boy with all the good qualities and bad. It has enormous appeal to me because I was born and raised in Queens. His vocal rhythms are the sounds of my childhood. To me, oddly enough, he’s a comfort more than the Texas accents and Midwestern accents of the other candidates. And certainly more comforting than the Mexican accent of our “frontrunner.”


65 posted on 08/26/2015 2:56:39 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: erkelly

The Left used it to demonize Ronald Reagan. They even said the chimp was smarter than Reagan.


66 posted on 08/26/2015 3:02:38 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Servant of the Cross; cripplecreek; C. Edmund Wright; ScottinVA

Let’s just get it over with, shall we?

Donald Trump is our:

John Wayne
Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Patrick Henry
James Madison
Dolly Madison (He DID kiss Giuliani-in-drag)
Admiral Nimitz
Douglas McArthur
Gideon
David
Moses
Abraham
John the Baptist
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Charlemagne
Alexander the Great
William the Conqueror
Peter the Great
Daryl Dixon
and
Rick Grimes

And that’s just for STARTERS! /S


67 posted on 08/26/2015 3:37:30 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: Hostage
Sam Elliott and Clint Eastwood.

Now that would be a gunfight!

My very very two favorites.

68 posted on 08/26/2015 3:46:16 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: nickcarraway

Check out John Wayne in “Kings Row”. He was great. There is a scene in there that has haunted me all my life.


69 posted on 08/26/2015 4:00:16 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: CatherineofAragon

That list looks pretty good.

:)


70 posted on 08/26/2015 4:02:13 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: CatherineofAragon

nicely done! :)


71 posted on 08/26/2015 4:06:24 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: Irish Eyes

I knew it, LOL


72 posted on 08/26/2015 4:12:42 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Thank you

Lord have mercy...


73 posted on 08/26/2015 4:13:11 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: CatherineofAragon

Al Capone


74 posted on 08/26/2015 4:14:50 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Boomer
Trump reminds me more of the Rodney Dangerfield character in Caddyshack


75 posted on 08/26/2015 4:31:36 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: Irish Eyes

You mean Reagan not Wayne, right? You are right, I mentioned that one in #50.


76 posted on 08/26/2015 4:37:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: right way right

LOL

P.T. Barnum


77 posted on 08/26/2015 4:45:17 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: CatherineofAragon

Gen. Patton
John, Paul, George and Ringo
Jesus


78 posted on 08/26/2015 4:52:17 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberalism is the poison ivy that infests the garden of society.)
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To: CatherineofAragon
It feels like the 70’s again to me.
People tired of the Malaise and the weakness.
Trump is kind of Folk Hero like to me, or maybe a even fad like, “The Pet Rock”. I like his shiny idealism though.

Ted Cruz is like the adult trying to capture the attention of a mostly ADHD nation.

79 posted on 08/26/2015 4:52:53 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: CatherineofAragon
Lord have mercy...

I think He's decided to give us judgment instead of mercy......

80 posted on 08/26/2015 4:56:46 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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