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11. Actually there was a TV show in the 50's with a character named Trump - wall builder
Thu Sep 28, 2017, 03:01 PM
Sep 2017
http://www.snopes.com/trackdown-trump-character-wall/


An episode of the 1950s western TV series 'Trackdown' featured a character named Walter Trump who claimed he would build a wall in order to protect a town from the end of the world.

In November 2016, a clip from an episode of the 1950s western television series Trackdown was published to YouTube, along with the claim that it “predicted Donald Trump” by featuring a snake oil salesman character named “Trump” who claimed that only he could prevent the end of the world … by building a wall around the town:

The television series Trackdown really did produce an episode featuring a “Trump” character who came to town claiming that only he could prevent the end of the world by building a wall (and also sold special force propelling umbrellas to deflect meteorites). The episode (S1, E30) aired on CBS in 1958 and was titled “The End of the World,” featuring actor Lawrence Dobkin playing the role of “Walter Trump.” A synopsis of the episode from the Classic TV Archive reads as follows:
if you wrote the screenplay lapfog_1 Sep 2017 #1
King Bruno the Questionable jayschool2013 Sep 2017 #2
Who plays him? (nt) matt819 Sep 2017 #3
Only one man could flotsam Sep 2017 #12
My thoughts matt819 Sep 2017 #13
King of Freedonia jayschool2013 Sep 2017 #4
Adenoid Hynkel jayschool2013 Sep 2017 #5
He was the model for Biff in Back to the Future 2. Pathwalker Sep 2017 #6
The Mad Dictator from Bananas jayschool2013 Sep 2017 #7
there is nothing remotely funny about this pretend human and its followers. niyad Sep 2017 #8
Willie Stark jayschool2013 Sep 2017 #9
Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip jayschool2013 Sep 2017 #10
Actually there was a TV show in the 50's with a character named Trump - wall builder underpants Sep 2017 #11
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