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Trump as Snake Oil Salesman and Career Entertainer
from Cheese Plate Time · #58
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4 minNews
They replay more of the Ben Carson speech and discuss Trump as a lifelong carnival-barker entertainer rather than a serious businessman, comparing him to Music Man-style grifters.
- 1:10:46Tim notes people early on were shocked by Trump despite not supporting him, unable to write him off the way they wrote off other candidates.
- 1:12:26Trump is a snake oil salesman on a level we've never seen, fascinated by grifters in business, politics, and elsewhere.
- 1:13:11Trump functions as a carnival barker—entertaining and watchable despite weaving together logic that isn't correct but somehow makes sense.
- 1:13:41Tim wonders whether Trump's rambling tangents in boardrooms with bank executives were shut down or actually worked to get him more money.
- 1:14:00Some Trump ventures went bankrupt when no one wanted to finance them, but Tim questions whether he was able to schmooze intelligent business people for more time anyway.
Donald TrumpBen CarsonThe Music Man