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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Make Trump Great Again! Taking The Donald to Toddler Town

Make Trump Great Again!
Taking The Donald to Toddler Town
By Frida Berrigan
So far, I’ve dealt with Donald Trump’s bid for the White House as performance art: a clever, full-body, self-marketing scheme in the fashion of actor Joaquin Phoenix restyling himself as a hip hop artist to promote his mockumentary I’m Still Here. You remember that odd media moment from a few years back, right? When the handsome star of the Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line grew a huge beard and rapped incoherently on David Letterman? I can’t be the only one, can I?
So I keep waiting for the Trump-presidential-run punch line.  I mean, what is his endless campaign that’s conquered America’s and even the world’s attention 24/7 really selling: the new Trumptopian private community on the Moon (or in Burma)?
Click here to read more of this dispatch.http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176127/tomgram%3A_frida_berrigan%2C_a_mother_confronts_the_wounded_ego_of_the_century/#more

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