ANOTHER NEW YORKER THAT IS AGAINST A TRUMP PRESIDENCY

….This is the building in question.

 

A political character from the past comments on the Manhattan Billionaire.

 

Ok, let’s take a break from going directly after the Manhattan billionaire’s presidential run and bring another New Yorker into the conversation.

 

First, I have to admit that for the last few years I have missed watching the Keith Olbermann Countdown program on MSNBC.  Olbermann had a wry sense of humor and he always went for the jugular against Fox News personnel and many dedicated conservatives, which was always highly entertaining.

 

I know that after MSNBC, Olbermann later worked closely with Al Gore’s public affairs cable TV network Current TV and he went on to ESPN to resume his sports announcing career.

 

Keith has continually challenged management regardless of where he went, whether it was when he started as a sports commentator, or when he was involved with a presidential debate on MSNBC or in going after Bill O’Reilly on the Fox Network.

 

I hadn’t heard anything about or from him for some time until he recently wrote an article for the Washington Post.

 

As expected, the article was about one of the candidates in the up-coming election, and it was from a very different angle.

 

Keith’s article was about his decision that he just couldn’t spend any more time having his business housed in a building with Trump’s name all over it.

 

To quote him directly, he wrote the following: “I’m moving out.  Not moving out of the country, not yet anyway. I’m merely moving out of one of New York’s many buildings slathered in equal portions with gratuitous gold and the name “Trump.” Nine largely happy years with an excellent staff and an excellent reputation (until recently, anyway) — but I’m out of here.

I’m getting out because of the degree to which the very name “Trump” has degraded the public discourse and the nation itself. I can’t hear, or see, or say that name any longer without spitting. Frankly, I’m running out of Trump spit.”

 

Then in Olbermann’s classic style, he proceeded to put “The Donald” into proper perspective.

 

He referred to Trump as a “PG-rated cartoon character running for president”, and he went forward referring to this man in the cheap baseball cap as not just a candidate for Olbermann’s “Worst person in the world” list, he also called Trump’s campaign totally “vulgar” and it’s worse even than all those “Worst Persons” of Olbermann’s past lists.

 

He mocked Trump’s boasts of “We’re gonna start winning again!” and “We’re gonna build an eleventy-billion-foot-high wall!”

 

I think Keith took Trump personally when he wrote, “All this coarseness is largely masking the truth that the Trump campaign is entirely about coarseness. Take away the unmappable comb-over and the unstoppable mouth and the Freudian-rich debates about genitalia…..do that and there is no Trump campaign.  Donald Trump’s few forays into actual issues suggest he is startlingly unaware of how the presidency or even ordinary governance actually works.”

 

But as usual with Olbermann, he then got serious with the facts.  He bored into the situation saying: “A December study carried out with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst showed that Trump’s strongest support comes from Republicans with “authoritarian inclinations.” They don’t want policy, nuance or speeches. They want a folding metal chair smashed over the bad guy’s head, like in the kind of televised wrestling show in which Trump used to appear.”

 

Keith then dove back in American history with, “Two months before the 1864 vote, some Republicans were so thoroughly convinced that Abraham Lincoln would lose in a landslide that they proposed to hold a second Republican convention and nominate somebody to run in his place. The Democrat they feared, George B. McClellan, was not only probably the worst general in the history of the country, but also his campaign platform was predicated on stopping the Civil War, giving the South whatever it wanted, running the greatest president in history out of town and repudiating the Emancipation Proclamation. Even after the North’s victory at Atlanta turned the tide of the war and thus the election, McClellan — anti-Union, anti-Lincoln, anti-victory and pro-slavery — still got 45% of the all-Northern vote.”

 

He finished with this comment: “There could still be enough idiots to elect Trump this November. Hell, I was stupid enough to move into one of his buildings.”

 

But Olbermann’s final experience with Donald Trump did become highly personal as Trump did show up one day at his building and he told Keith to “…let him know personally if anything ever went wrong.”

 

Here was Keith’s response: ”About 15 months ago, when the elevators failed and many of the heating-unit motors died and the water shut off, I wrote him [Trump]. He sent an adjutant over to bluster mightily about the urgency of improvements and who was to blame for the elevators and how there would be consequences, and within weeks Trump’s minions were obediently and diligently installing a new revolving door at the back of the lobby.

 

That three-week project stretched past three months, smothered the lobby in stench and grime, required the repeated removal and reinstallation of a couple of railings, and for a time created a window frosting problem even when it wasn’t cold outside.

So at least there is this one comfort: If there is a President Trump and he decides to build this ludicrous wall to prevent the immigration from Mexico that isn’t happening, and if he uses that same contractor, it’ll take them about a thousand years to finish it.”

 

It appears that Keith Olbermann still has it, and he appears as prophetic as always.

 

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