My dad used to work in real estate, so, someone gave him The Art of the Deal in the late 80's. The person who gave it to him figured it'd be right up his alley: A book about a "successful" real estate tycoon for someone who had been working in real estate for 15 years.
Well, Dad got through about 35-40 pages before he gave up reading it. Despite Tony Schwartz's attempt to co-write it into something glowing and positive and bigly, my dad's quick impression is "This guy is a phony, stupid jackass". So, the book sat on his shelf after that.
A year or so later, I got bored enough that I decided "What the hell. I'll try reading it." This was shortly before everything hit the fan with Twitler and Ivana and Marla, and, it was back when I'd read anything (even all 1,100 or so pages of The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, despite being left-leaning even then, figuring "What the hell".). Well, I got through about 40 pages and also had the same impression. "This guy is a phony, stupid asshole.", and put the book back on the shelf. Then, here came Affair Scandal #1 and Divorce #1, and I went from unimpressed to extremely unimpressed.
Even before the dreaded trip down the escalator in 2015, my reaction everytime I've seen him since is "Not this fucking guy again!" Drumpf talking to Macualay Culkin in Home Alone 2? "Not this guy again!" Jabba The Trump getting back together with Ivana to sell pizza? "Not this fucking guy again!" President Reality Show gleefully firing people on The Apprentice? "Not this guy again! And worse yet, another reality show!"
So, yeah. I totally expected the worst come 11/9. And, somehow, this guy has "won" and exceeded my worst expectations. But, let's hear it for the media spending 25 years rehabbing his image from a blowhard joke to "presidential". Thanks to them, we're all paying the price.
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