So many pundits have claimed that dump learned everything from doing reality tv

[diva77]

but everything he does in the media and at those cult rallies is what those huckster 3-day marketing seminars teach (and it doesn't even require attendance for 3 days - a simple half-day on the 1st day is all ya need. Someone gifted one of those seminars to me (pre-covid) - it was like being trapped in hell. It even included mixing "god" in with marketing pitches.

[Blue Owl]

1. It's all part of the show, folks

Too bad it got CANCELLED!

[diva77]

3. +1

[marybourg]

2. He learned from his no-good father, Fred, and the despicable Roy Cohn.

[diva77]

4. True.

I was thinking of his rallies -- they remind me of that ghastly seminar.

[The Roux Comes First]

5. Is It Really Much More Than a Good Strong Instinct for Bullying?

Reinforced by almost never facing proper and appropriate retaliation? Well, OK, yes, an astonishing retinue of mental issues, including psychopathy and amazing narcissism might be part of it.

Aside from his sickening body language and the nauseating infantile hand gestures, I can't imagine what he would be patient enough to gain from a huckster.

[diva77]

6. I think fux news viewers are attracted to those types of seminars & hucksters like

fish to water. They absorb it all through their gills.

[czarjak]

7. You accepted a trip to a seminar as a "gift"?

[diva77]

10. Time to reassess the friendship!

[GoneOffShore]

8. Mark Burnett and Jeff Zucker had a big hand in 'creating' that myth

Greg Olear has a good piece on it The Men Who Created Donald J pmurT

And that's my spelling of Diaper Don's name. I have consistently refused to spell his name out for the last 5 years. Petty I know, but it makes me feel pretty good.

[czarjak]

11. Making crap up and calling it reality pays pretty well for the Chosen Ones?

[GoneOffShore]

12. Burnett has had a 'good' career doing it. He's a producer.

There's the old joke about the producer and the director walking down the hall when a beautiful young woman walks towards them. The director says : I'd really like to screw her.
The producer answers: Out of what?

[betsuni]

9. You're correct. He's always been the way he is now, just less drastic and cartoonish.

He had to tone his act down and follow a script for the TV show.

[GoneOffShore]

13. And they had trouble getting him to do that.