Comments by "Darlene" (@darlene2709) on "NowThis Impact" channel.

  1. "Evangelical leader says Trump’s 2024 problem is that ‘no one wants their child to grow up like him’. A top political activist in Iowa active in the evangelical Christian movement — Bob Vander Plaats — recently announced his support for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as Mr Trump’s rivals continue to push for an upset victory in the first-in-the-nation caucus. Now, he is explaining his decision, which he says is linked to a perceived aura of moral decay that he asserts surrounds the former president. Speaking with Steve Deace of The Blaze, Mr Vander Plaats pointed to the Trump camp’s aggression against Iowa’s GOP governor, Kim Reynolds, who had also rejected an endorsement of Mr Trump in favour of his leading opponent." Politico
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  2. Trump is the Norma Desmond of politics. "In director Billy Wilder’s 1950 film noir classic “Sunset Boulevard,” Gloria Swanson famously portrayed a delusional and aging silent film star of the 1920s who was living in the past and refused to accept the fact that Hollywood had long since moved on. Swanson’s character, Norma Desmond, had no desire to change with the times or live in the Hollywood of 1950; in Desmond’s world, it was still the 1920s, and talkies had not been dominating Hollywood since 1930. Trump loves being in the news and so he agrees to interviews with the legacy media, even though he calls them ‘fake news’, because he thinks it is those outlets that show him to be still a significant person. He thinks that the journalists will be overawed by his brilliance (that those close to him keep telling him he has) and will write glowing pieces about him. And when they don’t, he whines." New York Magazine
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