[MNJohnnie]

n apt comparison is actually cinematic classic Citizen Kane, a man whose vast wealth fueled an even bigger ego, an obsessive need for public adoration and, like Trump, a birthright entitlement to high elective office

Wrong on all counts. This describes Jeb Bush.

[Sacajaweau]

Kane never did anything good for anyone.

[sparklite2]

Rosebud.

[Kartographer]

I don't know if the shoe fits:

Lonesome Rhodes: Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They don't know it yet, but they're all gonna be 'Fighters for Fuller'. They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em.

[Albion Wilde]

Trump sings Green Acres with Megan Mullally

[fungoking]

More Wendell Wilkie; lifelong dim who led the republicans to defeat in 1940. James Watson's quote works:

“It’s all right if the town whore joins the church, but they don’t let her lead the choir the first night.”

But he maybe more Huey Long; no real core convictions, just use whatever political avenue is available to obtain personal power.

One thing his life does show, he's no conservative.