Most Presidents, after they've left office, will write a memoir, knowing it'll be almost instantly a best seller, and so former President Barack Obama is no different.
But, between the predictable book deal and a pending Netflix project that he & wife Michelle will produce, Obama has again incurred the jealous wrath of his successor, a best selling author himself, Donald Trump.
With news that some in the Democratic party want an investigation into whether or not Trump has used his office for personal gain, Trump wants the Obamas investigated.
Like I said, jealous.
Some 35 or so years ago, Trump wrote The Art of The Deal, which cemented his celebrity status. Speaking not from that experience, but from the persona he developed for The Apprentice, the same persona that his dittoheaded followers think is the real thing, Trump, three years after being elected, still wants his predecessor discredited. His followers are mostly disenfranchised, disgruntled folks who weren't digging when Obama was elected 11 years ago.
For someone who claims to be a Christian, Trump has forgotten one important thing.
Turning the other cheek to criticism.
Not only that, but if you buy into the mainstream media's relentless presentation of Trump as a crackpot at 73, unfit for office, etc., then you would think he's also a bit of a hypocrite.
Trump refers to legitimate news outlets such as CNN, NBC, and the Washington Post as "fake news" because they're not rolling over and genuflecting before him, or so it'd seem. The only fake news I see on the newsstands are the now badly overpriced supermarket tabloids operated by Trump's buddy, David Pecker & American Media. Those weeklies now belong in the fiction section of the bookshelf section at Target.
Let me recommend the first place Trump should go after he ends his run. To Tell The Truth.
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Hours before Dancing With The Stars began a new season yesterday, word got out that model Christie Brinkley, at 65 one of the oldest entrants, was withdrawing due to an arm injury, and having her daughter, Sailor, take her place.
Talk show host Wendy Williams is crying foul, claiming Billy Joel's former "Uptown Girl" is faking the injury so she could open a path for her daughter, who's also a model.
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer can rest easy. He's not the only one taking heat.
Stay tuned.
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To use the title of an old Cranberries CD, the suits at NBC-Universal-Comcast, seeing as how ABC (through Disney) and CBS have their own streaming services, figutred, "everybody's doing it, so why shouldn't we?"
And so, NBCUC will launch Peacock next year. Not too original a name, I know, but whatever.
The content includes not only familiar reruns of series owned by the network, but also there are plans to reboot a couple of old favorites, namely Battlestar Galactica (which ended its first reboot run 10 years ago), Saved by The Bell & Punky Brewster, for a new generation. In the case of the former, Mario Lopez (most recently on Extra) and Elizabeth Berkley have already signed on.
Like, if they can find tapes of old football & baseball games from the 60's, 70's, & 80's, I might actually be interested.
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Before Saturday Night Live begins its 45th season, one of the series' three new cast members is now out of a job.
Shane Gillis was let go just days before the premiere after a year old podcast of his, in which he made some homophobic & racist remarks, surfaced on Twitter, thanks to a freelance journalist, Seth Simons.
Yes, it's the James Gunn case from last year all over again. Some busybody with nothing better to do other than a hidden agenda, spoils someone else's success.
My take? If Gillis had been upfront about his past when auditioning and/or being in the interview portion of the process, maybe things are different. However, when someone like Simons comes along and throws cold water on the guy's big break, then there are issues.
We're human. We all make mistakes, and most of us learn from them. Shane Gillis will move on with his life. Seth Simons will have his 15 minutes, and then he'll move on.
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In Arkansas, the cheerleaders at Lake Hamilton High held up a banner using President Trump's pet slogan, "Make America Great Again", while encouraging their team to "trump" the Leopards of Malvern High.
While the choice of words has sparked a divisive discourse (naturally), it proved to be prophetic. Lake Hamilton won, 63-34.
A small nitpick here:
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump didn't actually write The Art Of The Deal.
As is often the case when celebrities put their name up as the byline of the book, Mr. Trump employed a ghostwriter.
This last gentleman, whose name eludes me at the moment, has since made numerous appearances on various programs, wherein he describes "working" with Mr. Trump in less than glowing terms.
I'll make the educated guess that the several other books that carry 'Donald Trump' as a byline were similarly composed - second-hand and with full compensation.
Nothing at all wrong with this, of course.
But Donald Trump is in clear need of several reality checks, in many fields.
The funny part about that case, Mike, is that the book, more than anything, made Trump go national. Until then, he was a NY business mogul who was just starting to make a splash nationally.
ReplyDeleteGhost-writing is common, especially with athletes' autobiographies.
Can we chalk up Trump's paranoia and jealousy, among other things, to ageism?
Fact is, Donald Trump has always been this way - all his life.
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Sometime, you ought to look up the family history of Fred Christ Trump, Senior.
Particularly his relationships with all five of his children.
(Donald was Number Four of the five.)
Explains an awful lot …
Sounds like Trump needs a staff psychologist at the White House, and maybe an exorcist.....
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