Opinion by Hal Brown
To completely appreciate this story you really have to watch all five of the videos.
I decided to take a break from binging the Canadian horse-whispering long running series Heartland and watch a movie starring one of my favorite actresses, Sandra Bullock, “Two Weeks Notice” which didn’t get particularly good reviews, but I’ll watch anything Sandra Bullock is in. My favorites are Speed and Miss Congeniality.
The movie is set in 2002. Hugh Grant plays a Manhattan real estate mogul. Early in the movie once or twice he mentions Trump as a competitor in a somewhat disparaging way but this merely bothered me just a tad. Later in the movie he and Sandra Bullock are at a benefit gala and then this happens:
I have to say this was really off-putting. Out of nowhere I found myself looking at Trump’s smug face.
It shows Trump as being particularly obnoxious and arrogant.
The mere fact that this perpetrated the myth he revels in that he was the biggest big time real estate developer in New York City was disgusting. What we know about him as an unscrupulous businessman contrasts with the Huge Grant character’s efforts to be a caring developer. In fact the conflict between caring about people and profit is central to the plot of the move.
Obviously Trump loved being selected to appear in televisions shows and movies.
Here’s a compilation of all of his cameos including the well-know wrestling one. Who knew he appeared on The Nanny?”
Being depicted as the go-to New York City top businessman for television and movie cameos fed the bottomless pit of his narcissistic hunger.
Seeing Trump when he was much younger and before being president allowed his narcissism to metastasize and before he became near delusional about his beliefs that he was the greatest human being of all time is an interesting clinical exercise.
You can also listen to some of his crude and self-aggrandizing remarks on The Howard Stern Show.
Now take an Alka-Seltzer and get on with your Sunday.