GO, TRUMP!
Posted on 02/03/2016 8:25:48 AM PST by conservativejoy
Donald Trump was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2013. He'd been involved with professional wrestling for over a quarter century. At first his interest was on the business side, because so many of the events were held at his hotels. But then he began appearing in the ring as an actual character.
His greatest moment came in 2007 with the pay-per-view series called "Battle of the Billionaires," when he verbally went up against the WWE's chief executive, Vince McMahon. The feud started when Trump interrupted McMahon on Fan Appreciation Night and upstaged him by raining thousands of dollars in cash down on the crowd in the arena. It continued with a verbal barrage and proxy match, and ended with a triumphant Trump shaving McMahon's head in the middle of the ring.
From the moment he entered this presidential race, his campaign has been one long exercise in taking the manners of professional wrestling and interjecting them into the "respectable" arena of presidential politics.
This is an anxious and angry nation. Many people have lost faith in its leadership. Somewhere in his marketer's brain Donald Trump intuited that manners are more important than laws and that if you want to assault the established powers you have to assault their manners first.
By shifting the cultural language Trump initiated a new type of culture war, really a manners war. He seemed fresh, authentic and resonant to a lot of people who felt alienated from the way elites govern, talk and behave.
Professional wrestling generates intense interest and drama through relentless confrontation. Everybody knows it's fake at some level, but it is perceived as fake and real at the same time (sort of like politics).
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And David Brooks is a figment of his own imagination. If one just admits that life is totally crazy, it’s easier to make it through.
dont you know that’s just how he waves his hands all the time.
non believer.
New York Times - any questions? As if David Brookes is anything but a prize ash hole.
New York Times - any questions? As if David Brookes is anything but a prize ash hole.
New York Times - any questions? As if David Brookes is anything but a prize ash hole.
So what?
David Brooks is an ass pure and simple
Trump has always been about the brand and how to get the most bang out of zero bucks.
Glad that you and the NY Times agree.
Now I know that he is real.
David Brooks drools over ironed pants.
How many buildings say Cruz on them? How many employees work for him? Has Ted even ever held a real job?
David Brooks is the phoniest “Conservative” in the United States of America.
GO, TRUMP!
David Brooks is a pillow-biter.
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