Now you mention it, I do remember, think it was some reporter.
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Every intelligent person I know here in NYC has been onto him since the 80’s and can’t stand the motherfucker. It’s the low-rent bridge and tunnel Archie Bunker types here and the Hallmark Channel and Joel Osteen-watching fried butter-eating nincompoops out in the fucking “heartland”–and those white suburban fuckwads who only care about their lawns and taxes–who love the guy, because they’re either racists, greedy fucks, morons, or loons–or all of the above.
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Yeah, don’t remember who it was, but the story was just so damned funny. And typical.
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Beyond a con man, he is a national embarrassment.
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You mean the suckers…And there’s one born every minute…
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That’s it – I was too lazy to chase it down. 
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“This way to the egress.”
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Yes. 13¢ went straight into the grasping grifter’s pocket.
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Really, what is wrong with this people, in his rallies he just goes on spewing nonsense. What pleasure does his voice give to this people?
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@alabamaken beat me to it.
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Actually that went towards Charlie Sheen’s wedding present.
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Yes, there was. IIRC, he was cashing them at $.25.
ETA–I was off by $0.12.
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The sound of his voice is not the issue.
That what he says supports the minions’ world view is the difference. They don’t see it as nonsense. They see it as the world they desperately want because they’ve (in their view) lost so much to the ‘other’.
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All of it? I suspect he had a couple of pennies left over.
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@castor_troy hunted down the article – cashed one for half that!
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Since the 80s we all knew he was a con man, I wasn’t even living in the US at the time and I knew about it thanks to the Doonesbury comic strips. That 30 years later he manages to not only fool 40% of the population but to permanently damage their brains to the point where they would stay permanently conned, say a lot of the fragility of the American people.
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He was part of the fabric of NYC the way that subway rats and pigeon shit was. Literally. No intelligent, decent person had any use for him. The only Trump fans I’ve known here were either morons or assholes and usually both. He represents a certain side of NYC that we try to ignore.
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Plus, I think that a number of the Koolaid drinkers really do just love thumbing their noses at Libruls and all those other folks who have what they don’t.
And, of course, there are those who just have the “no girls libs allowed” clubhouse mentality. It’s the “in-crowd” appeal – except they don’t understand that the rest of us wouldn’t be caught dead in that crowd.
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I still remember the happy days when I thought he was just another Doonesbury character. The penny didn’t drop until I saw one of “his” books on a remainder table.
I’d give a lot to make that true.
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