Is Trump like Batman? College student's paper wins national award

WFAA.COM ^ | 20 NOVEMBER 2017 | WFAA.COM

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

DALLAS -- A 21-year-old college student has accepted a top award for an intriguing paper he penned about the striking similarities between President Donald Trump's rise to the White House and Batman.

Andrew Boge, who attends Hastings College in Nebraska, says he first started to think about a connection when he saw a 2015 YouTube clip of then-candidate Trump giving a family a ride in his helicopter.

"And the little boy asks, 'Are you Batman?' And he says, 'Yes, I'm Batman,"' says Boge.

He says professors encouraged him to expand on some initial thoughts and he came up with the research paper titled "Donald Trump is Batman: How Archetypal Appeals Assisted in Determining Our President."

[ifinnegan]

Adam West is Batman. .

[dirtboy]

Trump = Batman
Hillary = Batsh*t

[TexasFreeper2009]

I am batman... thus Trump can’t be :P

[beergarden]

as long as he’s not Robin. Hillary is the Penguin and Obama is the Big Eared Jokester.

[Brandonmark]

[mewzilla]

Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.

[TXBlair]

That is one of the best Photoshop jobs I’ve ever seen! Lol!!!

[COBOL2Java]

[ransomnote]

Interesting. Time tried to put red horns on Trump to “balance” the halo they put on Obama. But then it turns out those were bat ears.

[Salvavida]

And this is the height of scholarship today. A paper that doesn't solve anything, doesn't inform anyone, and at best points out that yes, life does at times imitate art.

Bravo young man, the future of the United States is secure.

[SubMareener]

I’ll bet Donald Trump is Q Clearence on 4chan

[TigerClaws]

Great post! lol

[Rastus]

Why is Race Bannon riding shotgun in the Batmobile?

[NonValueAdded]

I’m Batman, dammit

[NonValueAdded]

I’m Batman, dammit

[BradyLS]

LOL! The fun never ends on Free Republic!

[BradyLS]

Duh! He’s on the phone.

Besides, Race has the QuestMobile on Race-Pilot. Thus the frown on Bat-Trump.

[Dr. Sivana]

Adam West is Batman.

Was. We lost the best Batman this year. Here is the commercial that got him the part.

[roadcat]

I wore a Batman costume at a Halloween party last month. Blacked out the area around my eyes for under the face mask, just like the movie.

Now it occurs to me that I should have worn a Donald Trump mask under the Batman mask, for greater effect. I think my Batman costume got more thumbs up than a couple other guys wearing Superman costumes. Batman rules!