This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It is excerpted from “The Grifters Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency,” published by PublicAffairs.
Move over, Putin, our man Trump can be bought by more than one country, you know.
trump and his family always wanted to be considered legitimate, even though they are anything but. And so they and others like them are in the business of selling the illusion of legitimacy, thereby destroying any and all legitimate endeavors.
Welp, what isn’t bizarre about trump?
Illusion… that is trump. He sells his “brand”, his name. He doesn’t sell anything tangible. He is a fabulist, a used car salesman who sells cardboard cut outs of expensive cars, a carnival barker selling dreams and the last thing he’d do is hide it. If he sold something tangible it would be snake oil. And I have nothing against snakes. But I do against trump. A lot.
I’d like to see more articles like this at the top of the page, rather than the bullshit minute-by-minute coverage of the orange menace’s antics.
You could pay me to go one of these events, leave alone meet Trump.
oops, you could NOT pay me…