Donald Trump is a non-fictional incarnation of Elmer Gantry,

[no_hypocrisy]

the megalomaniacal, evangelical charlatan who is corrupt-to-the-heart. (Go to your library and take it out. Under Sinclair Lewis.)

Spoiler Alert: Elmer goes from town to town and ruins lives. He takes the love of a good-hearted daughter of a minister and uses her, leaving her in despair and no future. He cons a famous female evangelist and his actions lead to her death and the literal destruction of her ministry. And he walks away from all this.

He gets away with everything but because ignorant rabble allow him to.

Lewis saw it in the Twenties and it never went away.

[nolabear]

1. Yep. I'm fascinated by them in fiction. In life it's horrifying.

Gantry. Lonesome Rhodes. Power hungry psychopaths who have the charisma and the schtick to lay waste to everyone they touch..

[northoftheborder]

2. YES....!

excellent comparison

[Scarsdale]

3. He seems more like

a combination of Elmer Gantry and Elmer Fudd. Someone behind the scenes (Putin?) is pulling the strings. The sooner we find out what he has over tRump, the sooner we can get this unholy mess cleaned up.

[ladjf]

4. No. I think Gantry had a sense of humanity and humility that Trumps doesn't possess. nt

[Orsino]

5. Donald Trump is a fictional character.

Except for the sexual assaults and rip-offs.