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Genesis of the Trump Obsession: Dunkin' Donuts, Broken Windows, and the Ben Carson Speech
from Cheese Plate Time · #58
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5 minTim and Ray reminisce about watching the early Trump campaign unfold from a busted car with no windows, including the black father of a shooting victim trotted out for an anti-immigration point, and the surreal Ben Carson hammer-attack speech that first convinced them Trump would win.
- 10:46Tim describes Trump as probably evil but naturally funnier than almost anyone else.
- 11:31The genesis of Trump obsession: Tim and a friend were driving home from the city in a broken car on the Long Island Expressway.
- 11:44They were stopped at a Dunkin' Donuts in the middle of the highway in winter with no working windows, chain-smoking cigarettes.
- 12:26Tim recalls watching the primaries get progressively crazier, especially when Trump brought out the father of a kid killed by an illegal immigrant.
- 12:38The black father says he thought his son was killed by a black guy, not an illegal immigrant, while Trump nods along.
- 13:05A Ben Carson speech became the moment Tim and his friend really lost it, watching on a phone outside a show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
- 13:38Trump brought up that Ben Carson hit his mother with a hammer, then said 'I never hit my mother with a hammer.'
- 14:29Tim watched Trump in a press conference ramble about building the Central Park ice skating rink, mentioning the Masons and unions blocking him.
- 15:08Governors watching the rink story with Tim looked at each other and said Trump was going to be president because it was so ludicrous but weirdly compelling.
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