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Thursday, January 10, 2019

Strange But True: A 1958 TV Show Featured A Wall-Building Con Man Named Trump


A dear friend sent me this and I just had to share it.  It's a 2 minute excerpt from a 1958 series, Trackdown.  The episode was called "The End of the World."  The similarity of the show's scripted dialogue and today's real political dialogue is uncanny.



Just goes to show that there's nothing new under the sun and con men will always be with us.  Except that in 2016, some of our genius suckers with very good brains managed to put one in the White House.

The link below is to the original TPM article and includes the full 22 minute version of "The End of the World," if you feel like a longer watch.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/1958-show-trump-sells-wall-to-townspeople?fbclid=IwAR1DHKGe0MXH5Qd4K6_BwqltZJHA8dvWlq3KGviybMPJ_vnycgl2bQldaqA

And for more in the same "con man-gets-his-comeuppance" vein, I highly recommend the 1957 movie "A Face in the Crowd," which gets only more relevant with each passing year.


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