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- bongodongobob 2y agoBiff's whole schtick in Back to the Future 2 was literally based on Trump.
- stronglikedan 2y agoExcept it wasn't. The character was nothing like Trump ever was. If you remember correctly, Trump was America's darling up until the second he announced he was running as a Republican. This was the most obvious smear campaign in history, and no one could have survived it like him had the actually been guilty of any of it.
- seanp2k2 2y agoHe's been a pariah since the 80s at least. See eg Muppets Episode 2399 about Grump Tower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FeyDm4vrFo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FeyDm4vrFo or https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/1988-the-year-donald-lost-his-mind-213721/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/1988-the-yea... for a more detailed history on some of his decisions. From the article regarding his 1987 first book: Reviewers trashed Donald Trump’s first book. They dismissed The Art of the Deal as self-promotional pap. They called the author a huckster. “The man’s lack of taste is as vast as his lack of shame,” said the Washington Post. Fortune noted his “shallowness” and “pomposity” and his need for “more money,” more “toys” and “more attention.” The book, said The New Republic, “is a weapon in the continuing public relations war that is Donald Trump’s way of doing business.”
- jajuuka 2y agoThis reads like campaign copy.
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- jjulius 2y ago>Except it wasn't. [cough] >Screenwriter Bob Gale confirms long-standing fan theory that Marty’s nemesis in the trilogy was modelled on the Republican presidential candidate >“We thought about it when we made the movie! Are you kidding?” Gale said to the Daily Beast. “You watch Part II again and there’s a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there’s a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there’s one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah.” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/back-to-the-future-writer-bad-guy-biff-was-based-on-donald-trump https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/back-to-the-fut...
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoTrump was always the butt of businessman jokes. He was never "america's darling". He always wanted to be in the club, to be seen as an example of business excellence, but the actual examples are generally pretty quiet and keep to themselves.
- NickC25 2y agoI grew up in a town slightly north of Manhattan often known for being the bastion of the Hedge Fund industry. IYKYK. Donald Trump once owned a home in that town. He didn't hold on to it for very long, as Donald Trump was the butt of every joke those same financiers and their kids told growing up in the 90s and early 2000s. He realized that in the world of UHNW people, wealth is quiet and wealth also knows who's for real, and who isn't. Turns out, a loudmouth who wears makeup and bankrupted 2 casinos isn't really wealth. Donald Trump was ran out of town because it was clear quickly that he was nothing more than a cartoon character.
- xrd 2y agoI learned it first on HN a few weeks ago, but someone else said it was 4 casinos.
- stronglikedan 2y agoLol, Idiocracy 2 already happened. First showing was a little over four years ago.