Who Will Save Us From The Conspiracy Theorist In Chief? - by Gene Lyons
March 8, 2017 6:00 am
You know, along with having the impulse control of a seven year-old boy, its becoming increasingly clear that Donald J. Trump just aint real smart. Hes a cunning self-promoter, but dim. He did manage to go bankrupt in the casino business, you know. Thats really hard to do.
Trump showed losses of close to a billion dollars operating his grandiose gambling dens in Atlantic City. In the process, he stiffed investors and contractors alike, right down to the guys who installed the toilets and slot machines. Around the same time, Trump Air his personal airline also went bust. U.S. banks basically quit lending him money.
So he turned to the Russians.
But Im getting ahead of the story. Trump eventually made good playing a tycoon on a scripted reality TV program, dabbling in professional wrestling on the side. If he hadnt inherited a fortune, odds are hed have ended up a sideshow barker luring hayseeds to see the bearded lady. Instead, with a little help from Vladimir Putin they made him president of the United States.
Yeah, yeah, I know. You think that Obama, that two-faced Muslim pretender, maybe did it. Fine, then show me the proof. Not some desperate rationalization cooked up to convince yourself Trumps playing with a full deck. Face it, hes not.
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(60,536 posts)A winner of the 1980 National Magazine Award for Public Service for the Texas Monthly article Why Teachers Cant Teach, he was an Associate Editor at Texas Monthly in 1981, and General Editor at Newsweek from 1982 to 1986. He has written hundreds of articles, essays and reviews for such magazines as Harpers, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Esquire, Slate, and Salon. His other books include The Higher Illiteracy (University of Arkansas, 1988) and Widows Web (Simon & Schuster, 1993).
Lyons writes a column for the Arkansas Times that is syndicated nationally by Universal Uclick.
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