PBS: Fran Lebowitz on Trump. [View all]

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https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/nyc-legend-fran-lebowitz-gives-her-take-on-2020-politics/

From the transcript:

.........I spent the year going around the country telling literally thousands of people, zero chance. I was serene. I can’t tell you how serene I was. I never saw the television show that he had. I heard of it, but I never saw it. But even if I had seen it, I don’t think it would have ever occurred to me that people thought it was real. A friend of mine said to me before the election, you know, Trump could win. I said, don’t be ridiculous. She said, well, you don’t understand the country because you don’t watch reality television. I thought, that’s ridiculous. People in New York didn’t even think he was a real estate developer. He was literally beneath contempt. No one paid any attention to him at all. ......