Donald Trump’s glory days as the butt of Spy’s jokes

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Interesting observations from the editors of SPY Magazine about Trump:

The thing that amazed me about the ’80s and ’90s Trump – I’d never seen anyone who so manifestly and desperately thrived on media attention. He couldn’t have enough – as close to a literal addiction as I’ve ever seen. So now, with this summer and this campaign, he’s getting more attention than ever. And it’s like some X-Man thing or The Hulk – he’s just getting bigger and bigger. You can see him just vibrating with the pleasure of people paying attention to him every day.

He’s a good performer. His speeches can be these meandering things without talking points, but he is a skilled public performer, in a way that most political candidates aren’t. He’s also – unlike them – he’s not careful about what he says. As soon as he announced, my take on him was, Well, this may be a fake campaign, but he can’t make a gaffe. He’s operating in a different universe. And then somewhere along the line, where he doesn’t worry about getting nominated, because it’s about making people pay attention… And now, he may be at this point where he’s saying, Wow, fuckin’-A, maybe I can really get the nomination! People find it appealing that even if he’s lying or exaggerating, there’s nothing controlled or poll-tested or handler-approved about him. And in this day and age, that’s unusually appealing.

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/13/donald_trumps_glory_days_as_the_butt_of_spys_jokes_how_the_short_fingered_vulgarian_rose_to_the_occasion_and_became_a_break_out_national_star/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Pathetic attention-seeking nitwit is "vibrating with pleasure." The thought makes me queasy.

[PoliticAverse]

1. I always think of Trump as "short-fingered vulgarian" since Spy coined that term for him. n/t