Here's another staccato dispatch from the front lines of Trumplandia by Maria Schowengerdt (to see her previous report, click HERE):
"Lying is second nature to him more than anyone else I have ever met. Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."
--Tony Schwartz, the Writer credited with "partially" writing THE ART OF THE DEAL in 1987, when, in fact, Schwartz wrote all of it with only Donald Trump supplying cursory, fallacious details.
As far as the made-for-t.v. film based on the book which Trump and Ted Turner announced would be made in 1988?
There's a reason why it was never made: I know what it is but suffice to say, Ted Turner was too kind of a man to ever make a public issue out of it all; he was never one to go out of his way to humiliate some guy he felt sorry for, and like a true winner he only ever publicly challenged or criticized guys who were strong enough to handle it, for instance, guys like Rupert Murdoch.
Speaking of Murdoch: he and Turner were bitter enemies from the early 1980s up until the 21st-century when Turner, spiritually-generous man that he was, decided to finally bury the hatchet with Murdoch--and he did.
They were never fabulous bosom buddies or anything after this, but the public criticisms of each other and the mutual acrimony ended.
The Murdoch-Turner Feud began with a pro-sailing incident then really picked up in earnest after the unprecedented and phenomenal success of CNN due to the U.S.-led Gulf War (aka "Operation Desert Storm" of 1990-91).
Turner's experimental 24/7 news channel, then-hitherto derided as the "Chicken Noodle Network" by Wall Street and the major television networks throughout the 1980s, had suddenly gained absolute relevance and credibility and everyone finally "got it."
Got what? That for Ted Turner and his vision regarding CNN, reality as it happens in real time was always infinitely more fascinating than Fiction.
Which it is.
Then, Rupert Murdoch, that old bastard, made an informal offer to buy CNN from Turner and that's when the real trouble started: of course, Turner refused and then Murdoch plotted his revenge by making calculated moves to establish himself as a "respectable" American citizen from Australia instead of the trashy "King of Tabloid Toilet Paper" that he was known for in England.
He won American citizenship and wanted to buy a baseball team, just like Turner owned (Atlanta Braves), specifically, the Dodgers, and when the vote to admit him (Murdoch) by the MLB was afoot, Turner aggressively lobbied the other Club Owners to veto Murdoch's membership/purchase but unfortunately lost with the majority vote in Murdoch's corner.
Why didn't Turner want Murdoch in the MLB? Because he didn't trust him...what was there to trust?
In 1996, Rupert Murdoch finally got his 24/7 cable news channel: Fox News Channel, an organization "dedicated to conservative values," the goal being to specifically serve as a counter-balance to CNN, which Murdoch deemed too left-leaning--his endeavor, on the surface, fair enough. After all, this is America; conservatives are not to be censured or censored just as liberals ought not to be, either, for this is The American Way.
But what Rupert Murdoch actually did was to deliberately create a 24/7 anti-American, anti-progressive propaganda machine which eventually led to his (Murdoch's) canonization of his old NYC tabloid Party Poster Boy, Donald Trump, as the anointed leader of a "refreshing, new, conservative political vision" which wasn't new at all but was simply an expansion of the petty racist movement which arose during Pres. Barack Obama's two terms in Office known as "The Tea Party," which eventually morphed into "MAGA," "Make America Great Again," a slogan coined by Ronald Reagan during his 1980 Presidential Campaign, which Donald Trump, ever the unimaginative idea thief but savvy opportunist, initially applied for a Trademark on in 2012 and finally won the right to claim legally as his "own" in 2015 so he could reap profits from merchandise during his Presidential campaign that had the Reagan slogan and/or "MAGA" featured.
The only original aspect Trump added was the acronym, "MAGA," but, knowing him, he probably didn't make that up either, but likely an early days' campaign advisor(s) did.
THE ART OF THE STEAL....
Which brings me back to the book, THE ART OF THE DEAL....
It's all just bullshit, plain and simple.
Bullshit.
