Tweety calls them the Romanoffs/Romanovs

[malaise]

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[Dawson Leery]

1. Or the Borgias.

[Foamfollower]

9. That's closer to reality.

And Putin heads up the Medicis

[KittyWampus]

22. The Borgias, including the Popes, were more astute political operators, more ruthless

(I do believe Cesare did some of his own dirty work) and infinitely more intelligent.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. The Romanoffs spoke more than one language

Trump barely speaks one.

[malaise]

3. True but he was dealing with nepotism on

steroids

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Ah, okay.

[L. Coyote]

17. The difference between stupidity and genius is genius has its limits.

[3catwoman3]

28. Were the Romanovs malicious and...

...mean-spirited, as Trump is, or more akin to victims of the social isolation to which their privileged backgrounds confined them?

[DavidDvorkin]

35. The latter, I think

I think they were oblivious to what most of their fellow Russians had to deal with.

[bathroommonkey76]

4. Romanov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Romanov

[malaise]

5. I nearly put both spellings n/t

[WinkyDink]

8. Did you watch "Psych"? "I've heard it both ways."

[malaise]

10. No but I've seen it both ways n/t

[WinkyDink]

25. Aw, you would have laughed if you knew "Psych"!

[Retrograde]

30. "Romanoff" is the older transliteration

more prevalent when the czars were in power; "Romanov" is the modern transliteration. Russian spelling doesn't always have a 1:1 correspondence with English letters.

[JI7]

6. They remind me more of a mix of saddam hussien and north korean crazy leaders

[First Speaker]

11. It's more like the Corleones combined with Duck Dynasty...

[malaise]

12. You win the thread

[blm]

13. lol

.

[Initech]

14. Phil Robertson is a discount Don Corleone.

Actually I think Cliven Bundy could fill that role too.

[furtheradu]

15. Malaise, You crack me up.

& always when I need it most!

[malaise]

24. LOL

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Kind of.

Nicholas relied on his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra. She had no training in politics, etc. But she was very religious and very frightened. She was frightened that the divine right of the Romanov Family to continue to rule Russia was dependent on their hemophiliac son, Tsarevich Alexei, to live to adulthood. Along came a mystic, Rasputin, who calmed things down and became a trusted advisor to the Tsar. A grifter at heart, Rasputin took over everything from government to prosecuting the First World War. It didn't end well for all concerned.

[Buns_of_Fire]

27. Yes, I can see Bannon in a ushanka quite clearly.

And I bet Rump wants some Nicholas-inspired uniforms (only with more gold braid) so bad he can taste it.

[L. Coyote]

18. More like Romanoff wannabes, everything is faux, even the tan.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. Wasn't there some unfortunate business they suffered?

:snap:

Oh yeah. Now I remember.

[BigDemVoter]

20. Tweety will be curtsying and kissing their asses the moment they smile at him.

He's fucking WORTHLESS.

[spanone]

21. so, what's in it for kushner & ivanka?

love of country?

they want to give back?

naaaaww. this is a once is a million lifetimes to enrich the shit out of yourself.

apparently ethics laws don't apply to you.

have at it!

[malaise]

23. You nailed it

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

26. Which one is noodles?

[Beaverhausen]

29. Whoa- that brings back memories

http://www.food.com/recipe/noodles-romanoff-236522

yum!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

32. Thought you were going to say Rocky and Bullwinkle!

[malaise]

31. The ones that weren't failed royalty

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

33. at least the Romonov kids seemed nice

Grand Duchess Ivanka and Grand Dukes Uday and Qusay are every bit as sociopathic as their father.

[malaise]

34. Good point

[Retrograde]

36. Maybe.

The youngest, Alexei, seems to have been developing into an entitled piece of work according to some recent biographies - his mother treating him literally like God's gift to Russia didn't help. The older ones (and at 22, 21, 19, and 17 I hesitate to call them kids) are more of a cipher: their mother kept them isolated and treated them as a single organism, and IMO tried to keep them infantile and dependent. I don't think they were allowed to develop their own personalities.