Trump, the Conman (1958)

What the fresh hell. This is REAL. Filmed in 1958- about a conman who grifts a small town of suckers into building a wall. History not subtle enough for you? GUESS THE GRIFTER'S NAME
(And watch until the end) pic.twitter.com/6FA3p6KC00

— Alex Hirsch (@_AlexHirsch) January 9, 2019

 

In the comments to this tweet there are assumption, that “Trump” in the movie was a reference to Fred Trump, the father of Donald Trump.

That dude looks like Fred Trump too.
Fred Trump was 53 in 1958. pic.twitter.com/0T9HYUwiX7

— Batman (@Batmancanseeyou) January 10, 2019

Fred Trump the slumlord, reviled by many in NYC back then. Woody Guthrie wrote him into a song back in 1950. https://t.co/88YXSa73vL

— Moisés Chiullán (@moiseschiu) January 10, 2019

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Better Call James

Did anyone ask why Secretary Mattis resigned then? https://t.co/vp3pqwEvz4

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) January 10, 2019

The graph shows Middle East relations in 2016. How can Trump understand something like that if he even is not able to read Mattis' resignation letter? (He understood it only after the "media" reported about that letter.) https://t.co/rqFnJHV9YQ pic.twitter.com/SSX2GdDlPC

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 1, 2019

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This quite probably is too much for Trump. But thanks to his tweets US soldiers now understand the dangerous military incompetence of their commander in chief. This is worse than his lying to them about salary rises. https://t.co/YARhPy2T2B pic.twitter.com/HsH0QOu3hU

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 1, 2019

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Too bad, t's complicatedhttps://t.co/e9cWX7YTCS pic.twitter.com/UfGOO3JmmI

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 1, 2019

https://t.co/OD70vTFiNt

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) December 30, 2018

"General Jim Mattis will be retiring, with distinction, at the end of February."

After it took Trump some reading effort (600 words), Trump fired Mattis earlier.https://t.co/OD70vTFiNt

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) December 30, 2018

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»Trump softens Syria pullout schedule but claims 'hero' status«https://t.co/pbf1oOni6q

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 1, 2019

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Retired top Army General warns: Trump is a "serious threat" to national security https://t.co/iymM05myQE pic.twitter.com/9ChuQaCZ1P

— Forever Logical 🖖 (@ForeverLogical) January 11, 2019

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Deal Making

beyond parody pic.twitter.com/W2AziRQ0o6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 10, 2019

In order to be a good dealmaker, you need to have realistic goals, patience, flexibility and maturity.

Trump hasn't demonstrated any of these prerequisites yet in his quest for the wall https://t.co/niDKGsDCC3 pic.twitter.com/KX19TOi68r

— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) January 10, 2019

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Books about negotiations by Leigh L. Thompson:

Double Standards Management System

No surprise. Some branches of the Christian Church seem to have evolved into a more or less sophisticated double standards management system.

Do Christians have a moral duty to support Trump, no matter what? https://t.co/pmrkugng0g

— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) January 10, 2019

Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Trumpian Theology (by Alan Cross)
Liberty University
Two Kingdom Theology in the Trump Era (by Lyman Stone)
Two Kingdoms Doctrine

The Two Trump Traits That Led to the Shutdown

Trump’s wall is one big insecurity blanket https://t.co/MFGPXrB4p7

— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) January 8, 2019

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Some related tweets:

https://t.co/Ft6FqQmYfI

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2019

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Trump's much-hyped speech on the border wall was a dud, says @jbview https://t.co/M7J7fofHpu

— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) January 9, 2019

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Refugees do not impact crime levels.

Trump’s refugee ban served as a perfect statistical experiment to prove that one of its alleged motivations — large-scale refugee-driven crime in the U.S. — was erroneous https://t.co/YJTPT7FeP3 pic.twitter.com/kzxDor9xC3

— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) January 9, 2019

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There is no law that says the president can spend money on purposes that Congress doesn’t want him to spend it on. https://t.co/g2u9rW3ezE

— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) January 9, 2019

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