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Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 02:16 PM Nov 2019

It's *always* personal with Trump, he hates California

He knows California doesn’t like him. Hollywood doesn’t like him. He has a past in Hollywood:

The Biggest Loser: Why Donald Trump Couldn’t Hack It in Hollywood
Donald Trump spent years trying to make it as a Hollywood mogul. Nobody bought his act
By Allen Salkin -August 26, 2019

“As a young man, Trump had been interested in attending film school at USC. “I’ve always thought that Louis B. Mayer led the ultimate life, that Flo Ziegfeld led the ultimate life, that men like Darryl Zanuck and Harry Cohn did some creative and beautiful things,” he told Playboy in 1990. “The ultimate job for me would have been running MGM in the ’30s and ’40s—pretelevision.”

Maybe that’s the tragedy of Trump. Though he reportedly learned his straight-to-camera scowl by studying Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry, and his appetites and parental bankroll were well suited for louche movie moguldom in the pre-#MeToo era, Trump ultimately decided to take a safer path. He gave up on USC to major in business at the University of Pennsylvania before going to work for his father, Fred, at the family’s real estate company. When President Trump unleashed a stream of puerile insults west, telling reporters “Hollywood is racist … really terrible,” it can be heard as the tirade of a frustrated inner child, stomping on the sandcastle built by a clique of cooler kids who spurned him. But, until recently, Trump’s interest in the entertainment business was undiminished.”

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/donald-trump-hollywood-hustle/


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It's *always* personal with Trump, he hates California (Original Post) Baked Potato Nov 2019 OP
What an appropriate name...the biggest loser!! nt SWBTATTReg Nov 2019 #1
The key is his *envy* of anybody of talent, intelligence, accomplishment, higher morality UTUSN Nov 2019 #2
Yea. Snackshack Nov 2019 #3
I know, me too Baked Potato Nov 2019 #4
Another Hitler paralell... FirstLight Nov 2019 #5
What a delicious Hollywood hit piece Backseat Driver Nov 2019 #6
Donny wanted to Wellstone ruled Nov 2019 #7
And most of California MFM008 Nov 2019 #8
Being a native of California, and having lived here all my life, Dem2theMax Nov 2019 #9

UTUSN

(70,684 posts)
2. The key is his *envy* of anybody of talent, intelligence, accomplishment, higher morality
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 02:30 PM
Nov 2019

Hence, he has to tear everybody down - or really, *thinks* he is tearing down by smearing.






Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
3. Yea.
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 02:49 PM
Nov 2019

I am sure this would have been his dream job/timeframe.

”The ultimate job for me would have been running MGM in the ’30s and ’40s—pretelevision.”

I can’t imagine why.


I will be so thankful once he is gone. The constant barrage of DT seeing a comment/image or hearing him day in and day out for the last 3 yrs has taking its toll.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
4. I know, me too
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 03:09 PM
Nov 2019

I just saw how he’s treating Cali and I just knew it must’ve been something fishy, of course. It’s preaching to the choir I know. Just hoping to maybe change some minds of someone, somewhere.

FirstLight

(13,360 posts)
5. Another Hitler paralell...
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 03:14 PM
Nov 2019

with Hitler it was Art School, so he hoarded art and destroyed pieces from Jews and others he has beef with...

Drumpf wishes he could have had the empathy, creativity, etc to be a filmmaker...instead the closest he could get was rip-off reality tv

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
7. Donny wanted to
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 03:31 PM
Nov 2019

emulate Howard Hughes.. Movie Mogul with Starlet's on each arm. Using Daddies Money to support his Fantasy,were as Hughes actually was a Engineering Genius earning mega money.

Trump is a Character that he has carefully created over decades in his pursuit of wanting National Attention.

Dem2theMax

(9,651 posts)
9. Being a native of California, and having lived here all my life,
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 05:53 PM
Nov 2019

I feel like I can speak on behalf of California when I say that the feeling is mutual. California hates Trump!

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