Discussion: 1958 TV Show Had Conman 'Trump' Selling Mystical 'Wall' To Hysterical Townspeople

reggid · January 10, 2019, 6:10pm

Shipping is free, but if you want to get handsy, that costs extra.

katscherger · January 10, 2019, 6:10pm

Maybe we should furnish them at zoos, too?

steviedee111 · January 10, 2019, 6:10pm

austin_dave · January 10, 2019, 6:13pm

Does a local Realtor, Mrs. Pelosi, pants him and shove him down a flight of stairs?

clunkertruck · January 10, 2019, 6:14pm

Why is that ’ strange ’ ? ? …

I wouldn’t consider it odd for the writer to have genealogy linked to Rasputin …

Ras putin …get it ? ? …

erik_t · January 10, 2019, 6:14pm

1958 TV Trump wasn’t ashamed to be bald.

mec · January 10, 2019, 6:14pm

I’m less skeptical.

junebug · January 10, 2019, 6:15pm

@hassler Trump has a fringe at the front from the flap surgery. The center of his head is bald as a billiard ball. His hair would probably would look something like a monk’s tonsure if Trump didn’t arrange the elaborate combover.

c_stedman · January 10, 2019, 6:15pm

Art and fiction frequently fore shadow reality. In 1629 the first science fiction story in the English language, The Man in the Moon and Nuncius Inanimatus, depicted a voyage to the moon.

schmed · January 10, 2019, 6:16pm

AND Cannon, the detective whose TV hook was obesity.

danf · January 10, 2019, 6:19pm

Sweet Jesus - we are a computer simulation after all. Even the matrix is trying to warn us.

obrien1984 · January 10, 2019, 6:19pm

Donald Trump watched that episode in his youth and that’s how he came up with the idea.

Life copies art.

apphouse50 · January 10, 2019, 6:20pm

Best thing I’ve read in days. Damn, I needed that.

tsp · January 10, 2019, 6:22pm

THAT is just phukin’ spooky!!!

imkmu3 · January 10, 2019, 6:24pm

Did anyone else get a serious grin when they heard the words, “You’re under arrest, Trump.”

loss_mentality · January 10, 2019, 6:24pm

This episode appears to have been remarked on as early as Jan. 2017 as the “Trackdown” Wikipedia entry has a cite from Vanity Fair that dates to then.

junebug · January 10, 2019, 6:24pm

@tsp Nooo! Concrete parasols. Or paper parasols. Take your choice

matthew1961 · January 10, 2019, 6:25pm

Now I’m wondering if it was based on Fred Trump.

topcat · January 10, 2019, 6:25pm

New world definition:
Trump
[trəmp]

VERB
trumped (past tense) · trumped (past participle)
persuade (someone) to do or believe something, typically by use of a deception.

imkmu3 · January 10, 2019, 6:25pm

Better than concrete I would say.