Vanity, thy name is Trump; in gold capital letters
“Vanity, thy name is Trump” is a misquote of the Bard. A double misquote actually.
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Now I can understand making a business from one’s name. Henry Ford did it. So did Mr. Hires (for some reason I got root beer on my mind). Then there’s Adolph Coors and beer, George Foreman and his grill, William Henry Hoover and the vacuum cleaner, and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and the device he “marketed” to separate heads, from heads of state and others.
So Trump, making a business out of licensing his name for hotels, casinos, vodka, steaks and water (those last four were classic product failures, by the way), is no biggie.
But, and there’s always a “but,” just as with any wretched excess, what does it say about a man who is so narcissistic, so wrapped in himself, so insecure he was born in Queens, N.Y., that his name isn’t on enough stuff already and he plasters TRUMP on the things owned by the American people, frankly abusing the power of the presidency.
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