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allegorical oracle

(2,357 posts)
Fri Sep 2, 2022, 06:01 PM Sep 2022

Confident. Incorrigible. Bully... A look back to WaPo's June 22, 2016, story about candidate Trump

Written by Paul Schwartzman and Michael E. Miller
Excerpts:

"Who could forget him?" said Ann Trees, 82, who taught at Kew-Forest School, where Trump was a student through seventh grade. "He was headstrong and determined. He would sit with his arms folded with this look on his face -- I use the word surly -- almost daring you to say one thing or another that wouldn't settle with him."

**snip**

"A fierce competitor, Trump could erupt in anger, pummeling another boy or smashing a baseball bat if he made an out, two childhood neighbors said. In school, he misbehaved so often that his initials became his friends' shorthand for detention."

**snip**

"Dennis Burnham was four years younger and lived around the corner from Donald. He inherited his impression of his neighbor from his mother, who warned that he should 'stay away from the Trumps'. 'Donald was known to be a bully, and I was a little kid and my parents didn't want me beaten up,' said Burnham, 65, a business consultant."

**snip**

"In his neighborhood, Donald and his friends were known to ride their bikes and shout and curse very loudly," said Steve Nachtigall, who lived nearby. Nachtigall said he once saw them jump off their bikes and beat up another boy."



https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html

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Didn't he fight one of his teachers too? BigmanPigman Sep 2022 #1

BigmanPigman

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1. Didn't he fight one of his teachers too?
Fri Sep 2, 2022, 06:28 PM
Sep 2022

I know that he bragged that he did but no one seems to remember it.

My fellow elementary teachers and I could usually spot a bad seed early on. Of course the parents deny it.

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