The President’s eldest son released a book on Tuesday, predictably titled to own the libs, and embarked on a media tour that could be seen as a PR tour for his father during one of the most devastating weeks for the President since the impeachment inquiry launched last month.
Don and Don, Jr. is what you get when you add rich privilege to white privilege and compound with inherited wealth and marginal genetic stock.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Junior’s logic: “Because I was the victim of a threat I received in the mail that had the potential to hurt me and my family, it gives me carte blanche to make threats towards a whistleblower who followed all laws and protocols (and enable dangerous and demented people to hurt the whistleblower and his or her family).”
Verified purchase, five star review, 789 (smart) people say they approve. It’s really the only way to respond.
THIS IS THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN, ALSO THE LONGEST, BY THE BEST SON IN THE WORLD, AND BY THE BEST I MEAN HE IS THE SMARTEST, EASILY THE SMARTEST SON THERE HAS EVER BEEN, AND THE BEST LOOKING AND THE BEST WRITER, WE HIRED THE BEST WRITER, I MEAN HE IS THE SMARTEST GOOD LOOKING BEST WRITER, WELL, YOU KNOW, EXCEPT FOR
HIS FATHER, OBVIOUSLY HIS FATHER IS SMARTER, AND HAS REALLY BIG HANDS, AND WE’VE BEEN GROOMING HIM BECAUSE OF COURSE THE DYNASTY MUST GO ON BECAUSE THERE WOULDN’T BE MUCH POINT IN HAVING A DYNASTY, OR A NAME REALLY, IF IT DIDN’T GO ON, BUT GROOMING NOT IN THE WAY YOU WOULD THINK – HAVE YOU SEEN THAT BEARD OF HIS, WE MAKE SURE THAT STAYS REALLY CLOSELY CROPPED, IT’S ELEGANT ISN’T IT? THAT BEARD? ANYWAY, WHERE WAS I? OH RIGHT BUY THIS BOOK IT’S THE BEST.
Everything this man says is ultimately controlled by his father.
What comes to mind for me is the sycophant-laden Cabinet Meeting open to reporters. The number of people is different (a group versus one individual) and the leash is different (a group meeting versus Don Jr. being allowed roam around a bit).
But both cases feature Lackeys and Stockholm-Syndrome-esque serfs.