Because he was on TV and portrayed an absolute leader who gave decisive answers. He was the strong man lots of people want to be, on a scripted show designed to look like “reality”.
He was in people’s homes, in their living rooms, having dinner with them in their kitchens, relaxing in their dens and while they were making love in their bedrooms.
It’s a form of intimacy to have a celebrity in one’s home. A complete lie absolutely… but there nonetheless.
The actor Tom Baker (Dr. Who “Doctor” #4) pointed this sense of false intimacy out in an interview he did decades ago, when talking about how some of his fans created an entire mythic life with him, where he was their best friend and confidante and expected a similar reaction from him, when they’d approach him at conventions which of course, he could not reciprocate.
Worst thing to happen for America was Mark Burnett getting Trump a TV show. It put a con-man into the most powerful office in the world.
I think it was him desperately trying to get himself so famously known that he’d be beyond reach of his debtors… namely one Nicedemo Scarfo of the Philly mob whom he owed money to. Little Nicky was exiled from Philly to Atlantic City because he was too violent and prone to killing people at the drop of a hat. After Trump lost the casinos, he fled to Califrnia to get on TV.
Yeah, through Roy Cohn and later Roger Stone, his plans coincided with others aiming to get rid of liberals and nonwhites and reestablish white oligarchy capitalism through Christian ultraconservatism.
Because he was on TV and portrayed an absolute leader who gave decisive answers. He was the strong man lots of people want to be, on a scripted show designed to look like “reality”.
He was in people’s homes, in their living rooms, having dinner with them in their kitchens, relaxing in their dens and while they were making love in their bedrooms.
It’s a form of intimacy to have a celebrity in one’s home. A complete lie absolutely… but there nonetheless.
The actor Tom Baker (Dr. Who “Doctor” #4) pointed this sense of false intimacy out in an interview he did decades ago, when talking about how some of his fans created an entire mythic life with him, where he was their best friend and confidante and expected a similar reaction from him, when they’d approach him at conventions which of course, he could not reciprocate.
Worst thing to happen for America was Mark Burnett getting Trump a TV show. It put a con-man into the most powerful office in the world.
Most thought of him as being a harmless buffoon fit for entertainment. Nobody realized at the time he was part of a complex scheme.
I think it was him desperately trying to get himself so famously known that he’d be beyond reach of his debtors… namely one Nicedemo Scarfo of the Philly mob whom he owed money to. Little Nicky was exiled from Philly to Atlantic City because he was too violent and prone to killing people at the drop of a hat. After Trump lost the casinos, he fled to Califrnia to get on TV.
The rest is history.
Yeah, through Roy Cohn and later Roger Stone, his plans coincided with others aiming to get rid of liberals and nonwhites and reestablish white oligarchy capitalism through Christian ultraconservatism.