Is Trump Nuts?
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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 23:49
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In his first and best-known book, The Art of the Deal, Trump writes a passage that is one of the most remarkable ever set to paper by a future American president. It’s deeply telling about Trump’s views on the distinction between integrity and loyalty. Trump sings the praises of Roy Cohn — Joe McCarthy’s infamous legal attack dog later turned Trump mentor
after everyone else had bailed out, literally standing by you to the death."
Trump, ironically, would not stand by Cohn’s deathbed as he perished of AIDS; instead, he disavowed his friend.
"Art of the Deal" by Trump? was ghost written by Tony Schwartz.
I'd credit the elegant, remarkable & best-seller parts to Schwartz.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - President Donald Trump finds some of his strongest support in Alabama, but his public flogging of Attorney General Jeff Sessions is dismaying Republicans who consider the conservative stalwart a home state hero.
Trump's near-daily Twitter humiliation of Sessions, an apparent effort to force him to quit, is putting party members in awkward positions. Only weeks remain before a special primary election for the U.S. Senate seat Sessions vacated to become the nation's top law enforcer. Suddenly, it doesn't seem so harmonious to simultaneously cheer for the president and Alabama's native son.
http://www.newswest9.com/story/35982635/alabama-gop-says-trump-mistrea
ts-sessions-their-native-son
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Anthony Scaramucci, explained
He’s not here to “suck his own cock.”
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/28/16053694/anthony-scaramucci-
white-house-explained
by Matthew Yglesias Jul 28, 2017, 11:00am EDT
A shareholder who bought $100 of Trump Casino Hotels & Resorts shares in 1995 could sell them for about $4 in 2005. The same investment in MGM Resorts would have increased in value to about $600. But it did make lots of money for Donald Trump. It spent more than $6 million on entertaining high-end clients on Trump’s golf courses. It spent $2 million more on renting Trump’s plane. It bought $1.7 million of Trump-branded merchandise. It bought a bankrupt casino from Donald Trump for $490 million. It paid Trump millions in salary for his work as CEO. And most lucratively of all, Trump was able to offload debts he had personally guaranteed onto the publicly traded company.
From there, Trump hopped to starring in a reality television programming and then into a lucrative celebrity brand licensing business. He also launched a fake university that had to pay out $25 million to settle fraud claims.
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Originally posted by second:
Anthony Scaramucci, explained
He’s not here to “suck his own cock.”
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/28/16053694/anthony-scaramucci-
white-house-explained
by Matthew Yglesias Jul 28, 2017, 11:00am EDT
A shareholder who bought $100 of Trump Casino Hotels & Resorts shares in 1995 could sell them for about $4 in 2005. The same investment in MGM Resorts would have increased in value to about $600. But it did make lots of money for Donald Trump. It spent more than $6 million on entertaining high-end clients on Trump’s golf courses. It spent $2 million more on renting Trump’s plane. It bought $1.7 million of Trump-branded merchandise. It bought a bankrupt casino from Donald Trump for $490 million. It paid Trump millions in salary for his work as CEO. And most lucratively of all, Trump was able to offload debts he had personally guaranteed onto the publicly traded company.
From there, Trump hopped to starring in a reality television programming and then into a lucrative celebrity brand licensing business. He also launched a fake university that had to pay out $25 million to settle fraud claims.
Where were all of these financial experts when The Clinton Foundation was a thing?
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Today's cover: In the latest episode of “White House Survivor,” the West Wing descends into chaos
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That's actually pretty funny. 
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That's actually pretty funny.
No, it's both sad and alarming, because it's accurate.
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Anthony Scaramucci is — I mean, was — US president Donald Trump’s bombastic, foulmouthed communications director. Today, Trump fired Scaramucci, nicknamed “the Mooch,” just 10 days after he was hired. Somebody is nuts. Is it Trump? The Mooch?
Meanwhile, there’s Euron Greyjoy:
Mr. Greyjoy is a bombastic, foul-mouthed new character on HBO’s hit fantasy series Game of Thrones. Some fans of the show have described him as the show’s version of the Mooch—or, rather, Mooch as reality’s version of Euron Greyjoy.
The character’s arc so far closely resembles Scaramucci’s swift rise in politics. Having appeared seemingly out of nowhere at the end of the prior season, Euron has skyrocketed to a prominent role this season as a close ally (and possible future lover) to the flaxen-haired Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, Cersei Lannister. Along the way, he’s made a name for himself as a crude and sadistic man who takes pleasure in the deaths of his political enemies.
Virtually all of Euron’s lines on the show are reminiscent of Scaramucci’s rant to the New Yorker. But, unlike the Mooch, Euron has not yet met his end. If Euron continues to follow the Mooch’s trajectory, however, he will likely be the next character to fall on a show that enjoys killing off its main characters.
Indeed, the only TV show that kills off more major players than Game of Thrones is, of course, the reality show known as the Trump White House. The TV veteran Trump has eliminated literally dozens of advisors and staffers—most recently chief of staff Reince Priebus and press secretary Sean Spicer.
Neither Scaramucci nor Greyjoy could be reached for comment.
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Originally posted by THGRRI:Quote:
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
That's actually pretty funny.
No, it's both sad and alarming, because it's accurate.
If you say so.
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"There’s nothing more to be learned about Trump’s mixture of ignorance, insecurity and narcissism. Every second spent on his bluster is more degrading than informative."
-- David Brooks, Famed Conservative-Politics Writer, is burned out by Trump, August 8, 2017
It is no exaggeration to say that Mr. Brooks spent every hour of his professional career boosting Republicans and Conservatism, mocking Democrats and Liberals, and relentlessly positioning himself as America's Most Ubiquitous Conservative Public Intellectual. And yet, in 2017 during the Republican Party's Year of Jubilee -- the year when Mr. Brooks' Republican Party owned every branch of the federal government and Mr. Brooks' Conservative Movement had effectively conquered the media both through direct propaganda efforts (Fox News/Hate Radio/etc.) and by bludgeoning the "mainstream media" into a state of meek complicity -- Mr. Brooks announced that he was suddenly sick and tired writing about Conservatism or politics.
These are David Brook's final words to us: "One way or another I'm gonna wash that man [Trump] right outta what's left of my hair."
Thanks, David. Don’t worry about anything, we’ll clean up the mess.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/9/1688304/-David-Brooks-Famed-Conserva
tive-Politics-Writer-Is-Burned-Out-By-Trump-Leaving-Politics-For-Good
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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