Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Prairie Home Companion’s Garrison Keillor destroys Donald Trump in hilarious open letter [View all]
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/prairie-home-companions-garrison-keillor-destroys-donald-trump-in-hilarious-open-letter/Prairie Home Companions Garrison Keillor destroys Donald Trump in hilarious open letter
David Ferguson
01 Sep 2016 at 15:25 ET
In a scathing open letter to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, author, humorist and Prairie Home Companion ex-host Garrison Keillor said that Trump 2016 is a pathetic last-gasp attempt by the candidate to show up the snooty Manhattan elites who scorned him in the 1980s.
In the essay, published Wednesday afternoon, Keillor took Trump to task for everything from his Make America great again hat to his inability to read a teleprompter and scolded the childish businessman for making the U.S. political system into an arena for his petty vendettas and longstanding resentments.
The cap does not look good on you, Keillor wrote, its a duffers cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the warm-up guy, the guy who announces the license number of the car left in the parking lot, doors locked, lights on, motor running. The brim shadows your face, which gives a sinister look, as if youd come to town to announce the closing of the pulp factory. Your eyes look dead and your scowl does not suggest American greatness so much as American indigestion. Your hair is the wrong color: People dont want a president to be that shade of blond. You know that now.
Trump, Keillor said, came from Queens to conquer Manhattan 40 years ago and you discovered that in entertainment, the press, politics, finance, everywhere you went, you ran into Jews, and they are not like you: Jews didnt go in for big yachts and a fleet of aircraft they showed off by way of philanthropy or by raising brilliant offspring. They sympathized with the civil rights movement.
To Trump, he wrote, people of color werent so much people as a threat to property values, a menace to be litigated around, not an equal part of humanity worthy of celebrating.
Even so, the magnate hungered for approval from Manhattans elite, said Keillor, yearned for Mike Bloomberg to invite you to dinner at his townhouse and for the New York Times to run a three-part story about you, that you meditate and are a passionate kayaker and collect 14th-century Islamic mosaics.
Running for president is your last bid for the respect of Manhattan, Keillor said. If you were to win election, they couldnt ridicule you anymore. They could be horrified, but there is nothing ridiculous about being Leader of the Free World.
All of this is going wrong, now, for Trump. Keillor said that the former reality TV star is finding the discipline needed to run for office to be beyond his grasp.
The teleprompter is not your friend, he said to Trump. You are in the old tradition of locker room ranting and big honkers in the steam room, sitting naked, talking man talk, griping about the goons and ginks and lousy workmanship and the uppity broads and the great lays and how you vanquished your enemies at the bank.
That may have flown in the Republican primary, but this kind of retrograde thinking is anathema to todays voting public. Trumps fans, however, are embracing the nominees inflexibility, even as it drags him lower and lower in the polls.
You are losing, Keillor said, and so are they but they love you for it.
Meanwhile, you keep plugging away, he concluded. Its the hardest work youve ever done. You walk out in the white cap and you rant for an hour about stuff that means nothing and the fans scream and wave their signs and you wish you could level with them for once and say one true thing: I love you to death and when this is over I will have nothing that I want.
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
16 replies, 4088 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (103)
ReplyReply to this post
16 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Prairie Home Companion’s Garrison Keillor destroys Donald Trump in hilarious open letter [View all]
babylonsister
Sep 2016
OP
If we're lucky someone will point it out to Trump and his blood pressure will go up another point.
nolabear
Sep 2016
#8
Is he implying trump is anti-semetic? The stereotypes about NY Jews troubles me...
bettyellen
Sep 2016
#15