flacaltenn
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I also know people that worked with him, and for him...and they said this:Trump is a bit eccentric and definitely has an ego......
That said, in spite of your TDS, he's really not that bad a person. My SO knows him from her time in Manhattan.
He was ALWAYS a perfect gentleman with her. (A LOT of people from NewYork have run into Trump btw. It's not so unusual)
Nope, never once grabbed her in any way even though they rode the elevator many times together alone.
Polite as can be. It is only in the media's eye that he has been portrayed otherwise. The Left media is really in need of an overhaul.
Really sorry to burst the bubble.
In his early days he was a gentlemen, nice, well spoken...as he got older he became a dick.
And name one public figure, that praises himself non stop and talks about himself more than him....name me one please...other than Mayweather and Mcgreggor maybe. Lol
And it's NOT a recent thing that entrepreneurial disrupters are narcissists with egos. One of the better known MAJOR business disrupting narcissists was P.T. Barnum
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Now tell me -- how is that less Trumpier than Trump? Just imagine how much he could have INCREASED the crowds and attention on himself if P.T. Barnum had gotten hold of a mighty Tweeter.. His quotes are MADE for Twitter rants and promotions.
Would you want P.T. Barnum as president?
“Barnum's great discovery was not how easy it was to deceive the public, but rather, how much the public enjoyed being deceived.”
The True Story of "The Greatest Showman on Earth" | History | Smithsonian
That's pretty desperate doing opposition research on a man dead for 100 years. Why didn't you just hire Fusion GPS to slime him for you?
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It's a trivial matter. Because that was the custom of the day. All those "freak shows" were just a milder form of today's "reality TV".. There are freaks shows 24/7 on cable. I'm not offended.
And I don't think you ACTUALLY read the article -- here's my favorite part of how "The World's Greatest Showman" felt after he DID successfully run for office....
During his successful run for the Connecticut General Assembly in 1865 something changed, however. Suddenly, Cook writes, Barnum “began to express a novel sympathy and regret about the subjugation of African-Americans—or at least to approach civil rights matters at the end of the Civil War with a new, somewhat softer vision of racial paternalism.” During a failed run for Congress, he even “confessed” during a campaign speech that while living in the South he had owned slaves himself, actions he since regretted. “I did more,” he said. “I whipped my slaves. I ought to have been whipped a thousand times for this myself. But by then I was a Democrat—one of those nondescript Democrats, who are Northern men with Southern principles.”
Read more: The True Story of "The Greatest Showman on Earth" | History | Smithsonian
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