That’s always been my quandry in gauging Trump. Is he a tough-guy NYer like James Cagney, or just a loudmouth wiseacre NYer like Lee Tracy? How many times has he defended his honor with his fists? Or is his ‘toughness’ defined by the loudness of his mouth and how many lawyers he sics on his business adversaries?
I’ve never really come to a conclusion, although I’m particularly unimpressed by flurries of emotive tweets. I’m more of the old world and culture of Owen Wister, with calloused hands, steely eyes, and the sparsely-spoken comportment that masks ready action and violence. Trump’s an odd duck from that perspective, and I find it difficult to discern the supposed strength and valor that so many of his supporters seem so wildly convinced of. Which makes for a conflict, as his various stances on issues are generally far more aligned with my own, compared to the loathesome creeps of the GOP-E, whom I’d so love to personally dispatch down to the darkest bowels of hell.
lots of various links to this story, this was just the first one that popped up on google
I don’t reckon any typical politician would get out of their limo to help an individual being smacked around with a bat
I would rather be hit with a fist square between the eyes than be hit by lawyers who seek to take away my livelihood.--RoosterRedux.
As an old Wall St investment banker who won at the game...
Believe me when I say that Trump knows this. He has been hit square between the eyes before and he has recovered.
His opponents have no effing idea.
He is trying to tell them...but they still don't get it.
Something like this?...
Cagney was ONLY the "tough guy" in some movies. In real life, Cagney began his career as a BROADWAY GYPSY*. And he copied his "tough guy"/pants hitching style from his remembrances of adult neighborhood "toughs".
OTOH....George Raft REALLY was a "tough".
* GYPSY = dancer in a Broadway show chorus line.