Trump In Training with the WWE

[Lodestar]

This pretty much sums up Trump, his campaign style and appeal to a certain element in America. And like the WWE (World Wrestling) we all know this grotesque charade is a lie and so ridiculous no one takes it seriously (especially Trump). And yet this is the presidency we're talking about! Is this some elitist billionaire club joke to make a mockery of our government? It sure seems like there is a hand directing this charade for that purpose. It's the Donald's reality show. And what we have learned about reality shows is that they are anything BUT reality and are often scripted or at least written to manipulate behaviors for our entertainment.

During the last crazy GOP debate, I recognized my response felt familiar - disgust in the pit of my stomach and yet a suspicion that it was scripted entertainment. It was identical to the feelings I've had watching a sleazy WWE fight (something I've only done once). And so I posted a video here of a WWE fight I found on youtube which I was using as a metaphor for the GOP debate. What I didn't realize was that Trump actually has participated in the WWE world. Now it all makes sense....

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And then I found this story about Trump and the WWE by CNN:

When Donald Trump battled in the World Wrestling ring


http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/07/09/donald-trump-wwe-wrestling-being-moody-origwx-bw.cnn

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[KoKo]

1. Matt Taibbi mentions this WWE in his latest Trump Article:

How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable

He's no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever

By Matt Taibbi February 24, 2016

The ninth Republican debate, in Greenville, South Carolina, is classic Trump. He turns these things into WWE contests, and since he has actual WWE experience after starring in Wrestlemania in 2007, he knows how to play these moments like a master.

Interestingly, a lot of Trump's political act seems lifted from bully-wrestlers. A clear influence is "Ravishing" Rick Rude, an Eighties champ whose shtick was to insult the audience. He would tell ticket holders they were "fat, ugly sweat hogs," before taking off his robe to show them "what a real sexy man looks like."
Watch the similarities between wrestler "Ravishing" Rick Rude and presidential candidate Donald Trump:
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In Greenville, Donald "The Front-Runner" Trump started off the debate by jumping on his favorite wrestling foil, Prince Dinkley McBirthright, a.k.a. Jeb Bush. Trump seems to genuinely despise Bush. He never missed a chance to rip him for being a "low-energy," "stiff" and "dumb as a rock" weenie who lets his Mexican wife push him around. But if you watch Trump long enough, it starts to seem gratuitous.

Trump's basic argument is the same one every successful authoritarian movement in recent Western history has made: that the regular guy has been screwed by a conspiracy of incestuous elites. The Bushes are half that conspiratorial picture, fronts for a Republican Party establishment and whose sum total of accomplishments, dating back nearly 30 years, are two failed presidencies, the sweeping loss of manufacturing jobs, and a pair of pitiable Middle Eastern military adventures – the second one achieving nothing but dead American kids and Junior's re-election.

Trump picked on Jeb because Jeb is a symbol. The Bushes are a dissolute monarchy, down to offering their last genetic screw-up to the throne.
Jeb took the high road for most of the past calendar year, but Trump used his gentlemanly dignity against him. What Trump understands better than his opponents is that NASCAR America, WWE America, always loves seeing the preening self-proclaimed good guy get whacked with a chair. In Greenville, Trump went after Jeb this time on the issue of his brother's invasion of Iraq.

Full Article and a Great Read at:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224

[trof]

2. Ho lee shit!

[ffr]

3. President Donald "Camacho" Trump

Yeehaw!!! Just hope Trump doesn't sing too.

[Fritz Walter]

4. Why was this video not included in the RNC convention?

Why didn't he give Grandpa Munster -- AKA Raphael "Ted" Cruz -- the same treatment?
Oh, right! He wants to be seen as more presidential.