Gangsta Trump - How Hollywood created our monster
When Trump berated Hillary's staff for taking the 5th amendment, he derisively compared them to the mob taking the 5th. Forget the hypocrisy that Flynn and others on Trump's staff are now taking the 5th. A Dutch documentary has been circulating lately that, in fact, details Trump's relationship and business dealings with the Russian mob. In The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump produced by Dutch TV, Zembla, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdZ-RbL7pmw&feature=youtu.be, there is a plethora of documentation that links Trump to the Russian mob. It explains why Trump won't release his tax returns because they would definitively show his involvement in the Bayrock Group and his ties to Russian mobsters, Tevfik Arif and Felix Sater.
Hopefully, the documentary will go viral, but what's really interesting are the undertones that suggest that Trump embraces the 'gansta' image.
Although it seems like a simplification, Hollywood and its audience's love affair with gangsters managed to get Trump elected. As history shows, guys like, Mickey Rooney (Baby Face Nelson), Al Pacino (Godfather /Scarface), Sam Jackson/John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) and Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), have instilled in its audience a love for the murdering confrontational bad boy . Films about bad boy gangsters portrayed by attractive and appealing actors transform low life thugs into bigger than life icons for an audience who are angry but they don't know why.
Although murder and mayhem didn't characterize Trump's, Celebrity Apprentice, he took on the persona of big daddy gangster with his "You're fired" moniker. He was, and is, nonetheless, a thug. Unfortunately, his supporters buy that image.
During the campaign leading up to the 2016 election, Trump personified the image of the Hollywood gangster--monosyllabic angry quips repeated endlessly. Although the investigation with Trump's ties to the Russian mob and his campaign's collusion with Russia were a point of concern as early as 2015, the corporate television media did not address it. Why is that?