“THE TRUTH, WHICH IS THAT HE IS AN ENTITLED LOSER WHO DID NOTHING BUT WASTE HIS FATHER’S FORTUNE.”

1:38 Mary Trump his niece

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    10 months ago

    I hate when people talk about Donny’s father as if he was some sort of saint. That fucker was a segregationist real estate mogul that funded the KKK.

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      10 months ago

      Is it talking about him like he’s a saint to acknowledge that he actually did build a real estate empire from middle-class origins?

      Maybe that is something of a sainthood to some Americans.

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        10 months ago

        Fred made a lot of money, especially compared to his son or his father, but he nonetheless inherited a business and sizeable amount of money from Friedrich Trump. I wouldn’t call it Middle Class for the time period.

        Wealth is certainly a religion to many Americans.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, it’s Worthington’s Law in action. I cannot reference this enough, because this is actually how many people think. I cannot believe how many conversations about Elon/Donnie/Bezos/Gates, etc all ended with the equivalent of “yeah, but he makes more money than YOU!” (which I nearly always sound not very distant from “My dad can beat up YOUR dad!”. It’s pathetic.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbU4VRs2rro