Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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Don(ald Trump)'n'Glenn (Close)

Did they ever meet her?

Well, yeah.

DON: I used to see Glenn at the usual Hollywood parties -- Elton's thing, David's thing. She struck me as a woman of extraordinary grace and delicacy, a true lady.

GHOST OF GLENN: If she's named after me, there's nothing graceful and delicate 'bout her!

DON: Well, yeah.

I never read HBE or saw the movie but the couple that owned the agency I used to work for recommended it which was enough for me to stay far away

lol

mentioned it recently but when a c-suite guy was speaking to a meeting I was in and he kept mentioning Friedman’s “The World is Flat” glowingly (a couple years after it’s release), I kept thinking he wasn’t long for that job

and, amazingly, he was not

employers mentioning airport bestsellers never bodes well

Glenn Close is also really, really posh?

Close Spice

Anyway, remember that time Trump went to Cafe Versailles and said "food for everyone"?

Yeah, he left without paying for anything.

Because of COURSE he did.

(and poster mh TOTALLY called it)

*raises hand*

He's gonna duck out and not pay for a thing.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:46 PM (two days ago)

I mean, every last person in this thread and anywhere in the world called it, whether they said it aloud or not

he just meant everyone was at a place where food was available

sorry unperson!

Yep, just wanted to pass along the completely unsurprising confirmation of what we all already knew.

stop the steal

technically the article says he didn't actually order anything, as opposed to ordering food and dashing on the check

i.e., said "Food for everybody!" as a bullshit photo op, then said "lol nah" and his entourage left

Maybe he was just commenting on the quantity of food. "There is enough food for everyone!"

"I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon! jk, we're just gonna invade Iraq again."

He loves the validation for knowing things about the common man. Yelled "Everyone poops!" when they took him past the restrooms.

"I know what this place is for!" Yes, Donald.

He may not have wanted to pay on realizing how shitty the food is.

"Everybody poops! that's you...not me."

i could see don eating a cuban sandwich. with extra catsup.

"I am pooping right now, in solidarity with the common man! Well, symbolically solid, at least ... "

Donald would order a Cuban sandwich on a poppy seed bun

he just meant everyone was at a place where food was available

lol

Hahaha

You should hear him at the bank

Money for everyone!

Little known fact is that Oprah was actually expressing surprise that everyone in her audience also got a car, the show's lawyers were deeply concerned with the lack of upward inflection in her voice, as she intended to say "you get a car? you get a car? and you get a car?"

As anyone with a modicum of curiosity about game shows will tell you, things you receive in this way are taxed as if they were income.

When you give someone a new car, or a trip to Tahiti, you also give them a tax bill that might be about 30% of the value of said item.

Here's a new $40,000 car! Enjoy driving it to a place where you can sell a kidney, because you are now on the hook to pay $12,000 in taxes on your new car.

u can just sell the car tho

Yeah, I remember it being pretty common knowledge that the winners of the Price is Right showcases mostly put that stuff on the market right after. Except for those trips to Tahiti maybe? Do they really tax things like that?

Not if they come from Harlan Crow

my friend won the showcase showdown when we were in our early 20s. I do recall he got taxed for the horrible living room furniture and entertainment center as well as his trip to mexico I think.

I loved those moments when this euphoric data operator from Duluth came on down and when Bob Barker led her to the big walls Elton John would yell A TRIP TO NORTH DAKOTA and the data operator looked like Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive before she shot herself.

Of course you can sell the car but it's a really pointless exercise. You still need to report the income, and you are effectively selling a used car. So you're lucky to net half of the value of the thing you allegedly "won."

I would rather they just handed me the cash so I could blow it all on immorality, drugs, and loose living. The IRS can just go find my body out in the desert, wearing a tutu and clutching a bottle of paint thinner.

Seems to me like you should be able to stow that new car away until you are 65, and then drive it around tax-free, like a 401K. You'd be the envy of the retirement community tooling around in that mint, vintage Mercury Montego.

really want to party with Ye Mad now

I always assumed they also offered a cash alternative far below the value of the prize. In the UK, we had a game show called Bullseye and many of the contestants seemed to come from the landlocked bits of the midlands, and the prize was often a speedboat, and really what's the fucking point of that?

^^^ Likewise, easier for all involved to just give cash when the show is over.

You don't pay tax on gameshow wins at all in the UK, I believe.

yeah but the questions are too hard there

Also Australia. I live in a city where a massive Bond-villain art museum is paid for by the margins made on European track betting, and the owner had to take the state government to court for trying to tax the income that keeps it afloat. One of the stupidest attempts to kill the golden goose that I’ve ever seen.

Ha Matt I was just about to also mention MONA.

(As I was reading down before I saw your comment I mean)

yeah but the questions are too hard there

Bullseye was literally a game show based around playing darts

the question was 'can u hit a bullseye' and that's hard to do tbf