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October 17, 2020
Columbus as an Anti-racist symbol in American history, yes, you read that correctly -A couple great essays on Columbus Day
History, like current events, tends to be complex. And when we write or speak about historical happenings, obviously, what gets discussed or reported is not necessarily what happened. Everyone knows that.
But what's more important, is the way in which different aspects of history get looked at, emphasized, or de-emphasized. And different things become exposed or become clearer because they are looked at from different angles or perspectives.
People tend to choose what they wish to remember, what they try to forget, and what the presumed lessons might be from real events that occurred in the past. And this changes over time.
When I was in graduate school studying Chinese history, my adviser, Sherman Cochran, simply loved a book called " Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past," by Paul A. Cohen. Every time he spoke of it, his eyes lit up. Basically it's a history of how Americans have approached the study of Chinese history and how that has changed over the decades. Very interesting. Well worth reading for the serious historian.
(You can learn more about the book here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1952590.Discovering_History_in_China )
And nowhere is this more true at the moment, perhaps, than with Columbus. From hero to villain, when the truth was, of course, much more complex. Of course, most people know that Columbus "discovered" America by accident while engaged on a ground-breaking, high-risk attempt to open a new trade route to India. Most of us also know that he never realized that he had found a pair of new continents and that when he did land, he not only treated the indigenous inhabitants very badly, he paved the way for years of exploitation and colonialism. Yet he has been remembered by many as a heroic figure, and this needs to be put in context and not just swept aside as uninteresting.
(As another aside, again when in graduate school studying Chinese history, my thesis advisor, Magnus Fiskesjo, recommended that I read a book called "Terra Cognita -The Mental Discovery of America," by Eviatar Zerubavel. If you have any interest in Columbus and the "discovery" of the New World by Europeans, I highly recommend this book. The author is an Israeli cartographer and his focusing is to find an answer to the question of "If Columbus did not know he had found new continents, when and how did Europeans realize they had found completely new continents? A so-called "New World"? In this book Zerubavel approaches the important question, seeking answers in maps by early explorers and others to see what they were representing of their discoveries and when and how they came to realize they had "discovered" something completely new. The answer, of course, is complex, and depicts an evolution of thought as more and more evidence is collected. Again, well worth reading.
You can learn more about the book here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/379776.Terra_Cognita
Here are a couple essays that I found on the subject that I think are well worth reading. They both discuss Columbus and his fame and role as a hero in the context of Roman Catholic Italian-Americans seeking Italian-American heroes and symbols at a time when Protestant White Supremacist Nativist sentiment was an important part of the American societal landscape. In other words, they speak of the use of Columbus as a symbol and force against American racism.
The first one is by Heather Cox Richardson, a historian and history professor at Boston College. She is responding to a recent 2020 White House Proclamation celebrating Columbus day. ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-columbus-day-2020/?utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0konL1VlriDq137qBSx70ko0JVWbTZev-2Gl50b1W9AicHtgpNjf06FZk ) Personally, I find her essay much more interesting and thoughtful than the White House Proclamation.
Heather Cox's essay on Columbus from October 2020.
Jason Colavito is an author and popular historian who specializes in analyzing and explain the actual facts behind sensationalized claims of ancient and early history, particuarly those involving claims of "ancient aliens." Here he writes of Columbus, again, as a symbol for countering discrimiation against Itlaian Americans.
October 8, 2020
The Bonwit Teller Project and Trump���s Employment and Exploitation of Illegal Aliens
The Bonwit Tel ler Project
and Trump���s Employment and Exploitation of
Illegal Aliens
The Bonwit Teller Project Prior to his demolishing of this building, Donald Trump promised to donate the 1929 art deco sculptures from the building to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead they simply disappeared during demolition
The story of the Bonwit Teller Department Store and its demolishment and the rebuilding of Trump Towers on the site is a complex story. In 1978, Trump secured an option to buy on the decaying Bonwit Teller Department Store. He then needed to obtain control of the ground below the property which was owned by an insurance company and the air rights above, controlled by Tiffany Jewelers, located next door. However, now that he was a successful real estate magnate who had built the Grand Hyatt, it was easy enough to acquire a loan from the Chase Manhattan Bank that would enable him to purchase those.
One of the next parts of the project was to demolish the old building so that it could be replaced. Demolishing a 12 story, downtown, decaying department store in Manhattan is no easy feat. Additionally, there was concern over what would happen to parts of the old building, specifically the large, bronze grillwork featuring art deco sculptures of 15 foot tall goddesses dating from 1930 that emblazoned the entrance to the store and building.
Many in the city, particularly in art circles, expressed concern for the fate of these sculptures and the grill work. If the building were demolished, what would happen to these pieces of architectural art? Complaints and concerns were voiced publicly. Trump responded by promising to save the pieces during the demolition and donate them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, if removing them was not prohibitively expensive.
The 8th Floor Sculpture from the Bonwit Teller Building. Now
long gone despite Trump's promises.
As time went on, the project became notorious among Trump critics because of his use of illegal alien workers (what? Another instance of illegal immigrants in Trump���s life? How many are there?) For part of the work, instead of hiring experienced demolition contractors, Trump contracted with a window washing company owned by a Polish ��migr��. The company provided over 200 workers, all or most of them undocumented workers from Poland. They often worked without hard hats or other safety gear. Some lived at the construction site and slept on the cold, concrete floor. Their payment was irregular, and they were often cheated.
When workers complained, and allegedly threatened to throw Thomas Macari, Trump���s associate who closely watched over the project, with being dangled over the edge of the building, things changed but stayed messy. To this day shady accusations of several kinds follow the project, many documented. These include use of mob-connected union labor, using Trump and Roy Cohn���s personal connections to avoid inspection by the city and state agencies, threatening phone calls against workers and contractors from ���John Barron,��� Trump���s frequent alter-ego, and ultimately a lawsuit filed against Trump by the workers, a lawsuit that Trump and his lawyers delayed at every opportunity but nevertheless lost. Ultimately, years later, a judge awarded the workers $325,000.
Additionally, Trump failed to donate the sculptures and art deco front to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They disappeared or were destroyed during the demolition.
The Bonwit Teller site later became the site for Trump Towers.
Ivanka helped. According to one source, Donald would occasionally encourage or allow her to go out and supervise the plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and steelworkers even though she knew nothing about these trades.
Finally, my books . . . Yeah, I've written books. Please check them out and see if they interest you.
(As if, being the author of these books does not already show bias, please be advised that if you purchase here, I receive a commission. The folks at Amazon wish to make it clear that this is an advertisement.)
An ���option to buy��� gives the purchaser the right to buy a piece of real estate at a fixed, specified price for a fixed specified period of time.
���What is an Option to Buy Contract and How it Protects You,��� from Real Estate Sales Blog.
https://www.realestatesalesllc.com/real-estate/option-buy-contract-protects/
���The Historic Building Donald Trump Demolished to Build Trump Tower,��� by Sam Dangremond, August 18, 2017. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a12030857/donald-trump-bonwit-teller/
Pages 69-76, Johnston, David Cay. ���The Making of Donald Trump.��� ( 2016. 2017. Melville House. Brooklyn.)
Pages 85-91, Kranish, Michael and Fisher, Marc ���Trump revealed -The Definitive Biography of the 45th President.��� ( 2016, Scribner, New York)
The amount of the settlement came from Johnston, page 74.
If you get a chance to watch the August 17, 2017 SNL Weekend Live segment where Tina Fey responds to Trump���s alleged desire to preserve historical monuments, particularly Confederate monuments, by shouting ���Google Bonwit Teller!��� you can now understand the reference better, if you didn���t catch it the first time.
van Meter, Johnathan (May 1989). "That's Why the Lady is a Trump". Spy. Sussex Publishers, LLC. ISSN 0890-1759 ��� via Google Books at
The Bonwit Teller Project and Trump’s Employment and Exploitation of Illegal Aliens
The Bonwit Tel ler Project
and Trump’s Employment and Exploitation of
Illegal Aliens
The Bonwit Teller Project Prior to his demolishing of this building, Donald Trump promised to donate the 1929 art deco sculptures from the building to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead they simply disappeared during demolition
The story of the Bonwit Teller Department Store and its demolishment and the rebuilding of Trump Towers on the site is a complex story. In 1978, Trump secured an option to buy on the decaying Bonwit Teller Department Store. The 8th Floor Sculpture from the
Bonwit Teller Building. Now
long gone despite Trump's promises.
As time went on, the project became notorious among Trump critics because of his use of illegal alien workers (what? Another instance of illegal immigrants in Trump’s life? How many are there?) For part of the work, instead of hiring experienced demolition contractors, Trump contracted with a window washing company owned by a Polish émigré. The company provided over 200 workers, all or most of them undocumented workers from Poland. They often worked without hard hats or other safety gear. Some lived at the construction site and slept on the cold, concrete floor. Their payment was irregular, and they were often cheated.
When workers complained, and allegedly threatened to throw Thomas Macari, Trump’s associate who closely watched over the project, with being dangled over the edge of the building, things changed but stayed messy. To this day shady accusations of several kinds follow the project, many documented. These include use of mob-connected union labor, using Trump and Roy Cohn’s personal connections to avoid inspection by the city and state agencies, threatening phone calls against workers and contractors from “John Barron,” Trump’s frequent alter-ego, and ultimately a lawsuit filed against Trump by the workers, a lawsuit that Trump and his lawyers delayed at every opportunity but nevertheless lost. Ultimately, years later, a judge awarded the workers $325,000.
Additionally, Trump failed to donate the sculptures and art deco front to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They disappeared or were destroyed during the demolition.
The Bonwit Teller site later became the site for Trump Towers.(As if, being the author of these books does not already show bias, please be advised that if you purchase here, I receive a commission. The folks at Amazon wish to make it clear that this is an advertisement.)
“What is an Option to Buy Contract and How it Protects You,” from Real Estate Sales Blog.
https://www.realestatesalesllc.com/real-estate/option-buy-contract-protects/
“The Historic Building Donald Trump Demolished to Build Trump Tower,” by Sam Dangremond, August 18, 2017. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a12030857/donald-trump-bonwit-teller/
Pages 69-76, Johnston, David Cay. “The Making of Donald Trump.” ( 2016. 2017. Melville House. Brooklyn.)
Pages 85-91, Kranish, Michael and Fisher, Marc “Trump revealed -The Definitive Biography of the 45th President.” ( 2016, Scribner, New York)
The amount of the settlement came from Johnston, page 74.
If you get a chance to watch the August 17, 2017 SNL Weekend Live segment where Tina Fey responds to Trump’s alleged desire to preserve historical monuments, particularly Confederate monuments, by shouting “Google Bonwit Teller!” you can now understand the reference better, if you didn’t catch it the first time.
van Meter, Johnathan (May 1989). "That's Why the Lady is a Trump". Spy. Sussex Publishers, LLC. ISSN 0890-1759 – via Google Books at
October 4, 2020
"Blog housekeeping" and The Shaggs -- Perhaps one of the most notorious bands and albums ever made.
Greetings, welcome back.
Here you will find an interesting moment in the history of rock and pop music, but first an update on the state of this blog and my so-called writing career, and then a bit on the nature of doing history in the year 2020. I recently finished a book, I think it's my sixth so far, and it's on Donald Trump. If you have not heard of him, Donald Trump was a man who was born into money and enjoyed appearing on television and in the press. He did some television and some cameos in movies. Sort of a "Hollywood Squares" kind of guy, but sort of, mostly after "Hollywood Squares" went off the air. (If you don't know what "Hollywood Squares" was google it or leave a comment below.) At one point in his career, in what may have been the world's biggest publicity stunt gone awry, he ran for president and much to the surprise of many, got himself elected. And the rest, as they say, is history.
And, while in my opinion, he's doing a terrible job as President, he is doing a good job of manipulating a large segment of the population. And my book discusses how, exactly, he manipulates them.
Buy "Scams from the Great Beyond --The Presidential Edition" here.
If you are interested, and even if you are not, aside from the many blog posts here, I have another blog that I do not use as much that discusses things other than history. You can find it here: http://peterhuston.blogspot.com/ It basically discusses things other than history. If you liked the recent Donald Trump posts, there are a few others over there too. And I have created a Goodreads author's page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/339311.Peter_Huston The Amazon,com authors page is coming as soon as they and I straighten out some confusion over some paperwork issues. They tell me this should happen tomorrow.
So that's it about me, at the moment.
Second, my thoughts on the state of doing history in the year 2020. For the record, I believe that one of the reasons we now have such an unusual president (if nothing else, he is the first president we have had who has never served in the military or public office) is due to changes in society and the flow of information caused by the internet. And this changes history too.
When doing history, arguably, the primary factors are the amount and type of sources. And the internet information explosion has often resulted in a huge deluge of sources available, literally, at the touch of a few fingers on the nearest linked in computer keyboard. Which changes the way we do history for many subjects. Often, instead of going to great trouble to obtain sources, any sources, one now finds oneself with an overwhelming number of sources and a need to sort them for research value. And one needs to sort them, and weigh and analyze them, often before determining how to use them.
And sometimes one finds a subject that looks really cool, and you decide you want to dig into it, learn as much as you can, hoping to share it with others, only to discover that all the research has already been done before.
And thus it is with the Shaggs . , ,
Such an interesting story, alas, it's all been told before.
So, here we have a primary source:
You can listen to it, and if you hear just a little bit, you should be intrigued. If you hear the whole thing, well, congratulations to you. You've accomplished something many people find difficult. Either way, you will probably be wondering what it is and where it come from and how it came to be.
And if you are wondering where the above album came from, the answer is available in the video below.
Of if you prefer you can go to the follow sources:
NPR news: https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/02/17/515775669/the-best-or-worst-band-of-all-time-is-back
Lester Bangs, the famous rock critic, wrote about them: http://www.keyofz.com/vvoice.htm
The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/09/27/meet-the-shaggs
Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/shaggs-dot-wiggin-reflects-on-divisive-philosophy-of-the-world-album-115348/
Or you can watch this video:
And that's kind of how research is done, at least on some projects, in the year 2020.
To do it right, one should dig in, try to find more verification of fundamental facts. Perhaps something I will do later.
Finally, my books . . . Yeah, I've written books. Please check them out and see if they interest you.
Not my book, but if you buy it here, you support this blog:
September 24, 2020
Donald Trump and the Central Park Five --Calling for the Death Penalty for Innocent People
Another excerpt from the cut chapter of my upcoming book "Scams from the Great Beyond -The Presidential Edition."
Donald Trump calls for the death penalty
in the "Central Park Five" case
They were later found innocent and sued the city.
Donald Trump ran this as a full page advertisement in several New York City newspapers after six minority youths were arrested in connection with the rape of a jogger in Central Park. Five were given lengthy prison sentences, and one entered a plea bargain. They were all cleared several years later, when the real rapist confessed and DNA evidence connected him to the crime.
One of the uglier incidents involving Trump in the 1980s involved a criminal case called either “the Central Park Five Case” or “the Central Park Jogger Case.” Briefly, in April of 1989, a 28 year old White female investment banker jogging in Central Park was raped and brutalized and left with head trauma. Police soon arrested a group of primarily minority youths who were present near the crime scene.
Donald Trump, who was reportedly considering a run for Mayor at the time, took out full page ads in several of New York City’s most popular newspapers saying “Bring back the death penalty” and including statements like “they should be made to suffer” and “Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these murders and I always will,” and more.
“Trump called for death penalty after Central Park jogger attack, and still has no sympathy for accused despite convictions overturned,” by Leonard Greene. July 19, 2018. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.
“Trump called for death penalty after Central Park jogger attack, and still has no sympathy for accused despite convictions overturned,” by Leonard Greene. July 19, 2018. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-news-trump-death-penalty-central-park-five-20180713-story.html
September 23, 2020
Trump's 1970 Racial Bias in Housing Lawsuit.
Another excerpt from my upcoming book. Consider this an introduction, nothing more, and if the subject interests you please research further. This was intended to be a concise brief portion of a biographical chapter that has now been cut. If you wish to learn more, remember internet search engines are your friend.
Donald Trump and his 1973 Federal Lawsuit in Racially Biased Discrimination in Housing
Donald Trump and his father in the 1970s, the period in which they were both co-defendants in a federal lawsuit about racial bias in housing.
During this time, Donald Trump managed the subsidized housing properties his father had built. These were rented primarily to working class and lower income people.
In 1973, the United States Justice Department sued Donald Trump, his father and Trump Management of violating the Fair Housing Act and discriminating against Blacks and Hispanics in 39 of their properties. The evidence against them was very solid. Most people would have advised them to settle with the Justice Department, pay a fine, and fix the practices and comply with the Fair Housing act, giving all citizens equal access and rights to rent from the Trumps. But young Donald Trump, then 26, represented, advised, and encouraged by Roy Cohn, decided to respond in a different way. They denied all charges despite the evidence and counter-sued against the Justice Department for 100 million dollars. Then they dragged the case out for two years, occasionally holding press conferences where they mischaracterized the suit as being over housing people on welfare and not about racial discrimination, hoping the Justice Department would agree to settle. In 1975, an agreement was reached, the counter suit from Trump and Cohn was dismissed as groundless, the Trumps and their company had to change their discriminatory policies. A government press release announced that the suit had been “one of the most far reaching ever negotiated” and local papers announced that the Trump properties were now open to be rented by minorities. Trump continued to deny that the government never proved its case and continued to mischaracterize the suit and its conclusion from
Primary Sources
Johnston, David Cay. 2016, 2017. The Making of Donald Trump. Melville House: Brooklyn.
Kranish, Michael, and Fisher, Marc. 2017. Trump Revealed -The Definitive Biography of the 45th President. Scribner: New York.
Further Reading
"'Not Wanted': Black Applicants Rejected for Trump Housing Speak Out," by By Cynthia McFadden, Anna Schecter and Hannah Rappleye. October 25, 2016. NBC News.
"A Look Back at the Discrimination Suit Dogging Donald Trump, Trump and his father were sued by the Justice Department in 1973," by Meghan Keneally. August 26, 2016. ABC News.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286
"Decades-Old Housing Discrimination Case Plagues Donald Trump." NPR Staff. September 29, 2016. NPR.
"‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias," by Jonathan Mahler and Steve Eder. August 27, 2016. The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html
September 22, 2020
Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and Early Life After College in Manhattan.
Another excerpt from the cut biographical chapter of "Scams from the Great Beyond --The Presidential Edition." My upcoming book intended to explain the techniques Donald Trump uses to sway crowds and influence people. It should be helpful to people who wish to understand "the Donald Trump phenomena."
Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and Early Life After College in Manhattan
Roy Cohn, an unethical lawyer, was one of Trump's most important mentors and influences.
Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, the aggressive and often unethical lawyer who was his mentor in many ways.
After graduation in 1968, Trump went to work for his father, helping to manage his rental properties.
In 1971, he fulfilled a dream and moved to Manhattan. He had always been ashamed to have come from Queens and sometimes lied about it, as his father had, telling people he was born in New Jersey. Soon after, seeking both women and to be able to move in the chic, trendy Manhattan elite social circles, he applied to join “Le Club.” “Le Club was a then-popular night club located in Manhattan whose membership included many wealthy and powerful people. Trump described it as “perhaps the most exclusive” members night club in New York City and said “its membership included some of the most successful men and the most beautiful women in the world,”
https://www.historynet.com/roy-cohn-the-toughest-meanest-most-brilliant-lawyer-in-new-york.htm
https://www.americanheritage.com/roy-cohn#1
September 21, 2020
Donald Trump's Immigrant Roots -Scams from the Great Beyond --The Presidential Edition
Donald Trump's Immigrant Roots
The Trump Family in America
I am currently working on a book on Donald Trump. A sequel to my earlier, Scams from the Great Beyond books, this one will focus on the skills and techniques Donald Trump has used to sway crowds and achieve his amazing accomplishments. (Trump is the first US President ever elected without any public service experience.) While the original outline included a biographical chapter, the editor recommended it be cut (it was taking up a third of the book and still growing.) Therefore, these blog posts.
Family and TRUMP’S IMMIGRANT ROOTS
Trump with an immigrant from a sh*thole country to his left,
and the child of immigrants who came through chain migration on his right.
In other words, his mother and father.
For a man who has a thing about immigrants, Trump sure seems to have a lot of them in his family. And for a man whose slogan is “Make America Great Again,” “again,” as in in the past, his family really hasn’t been here very long. And for a man who reframed and renamed “family based immigration” as “chain migration” and told his base it was a threat to everything good and pure in the USA, there’s a lot of that, too. Make of that what you will.
Donald Trump’s mother was an immigrant. She came, basically, through so-called “chain-migration,” and arrived in New York City in 1930 at age 18 where she stayed with three sisters who came first. She arrived from a place that could easily be called a “sh*thole.” She was the youngest of ten children and from a desolate, impoverished, and Gaelic speaking section of Scotland where the first world war had killed a large number of the town’s men. She left, seeking a better life overseas.
She found work as a domestic servant. Six years later in 1936, she married Fred Trump, Jr., Donald Trump’s father.Three generations of Trump men.
On Donald Trump’s father’s side of the family, both his grandparents were immigrants, too. Friedrich “Fred” Trump arrived from Germany, dodging the draft, in 1885. Another chain migration case, he stayed with his sister in New York City upon arrival. He soon moved out and did well for himself running restaurants and low-cost brothels in Washington state and the Yukon during the gold rush.
Secondary source: Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, from Wikipedia. Accessed on August 9, 2020
September 18, 2020
Melania, Trump Wife # 3. Oh how we love those grimacing scowls!
Melania,
Trump Wife # 3
Another patented "TRUMPinfoDUMP" from the
cut biographical chapter of the upcoming
"Scams from the Great Beyond --The Presidential Edition."
Melania, is, of course, Donald Trump’s third and current wife. Of all the things about living under the Trump administration, watching Melania interact with her husband is my favorite. Melania is, of course, a former model from Eastern Europe who knowingly married a self-absorbed millionaire who she had to know had cheated on his two previous wives and divorced them with as much publicity as possible. She knew this. Put everything she does in that context.
I know it’s evil, I know it’s wrong, and I promise I do feel guilty about it, but watching her is one of my favorite things about having Trump in the White House now. Those “don’t touch me” hand slaps in front of the airplane ramps, those “I hate being here and I hate this man too” expressions at public events when he’s not looking, the alleged plagiarism of Michelle Obama, a woman her husband can’t stand, in her 2016 speech,
The fact is that their marriage had troubles long before he won the presidency,
Melania, an immigrant in the family of our most anti-immigrant president, is from Slovenia in the former Yugoslavia. She gained the right to live in the USA through an EB-1 or “Einstein Visa” for people who show talent in a special field. If you’re wondering, she began the application process in 2000, when she was dating Donald Trump. Part of the process for applying for this is to demonstrate or show evidence of extraordinary talent in a field. Many have wondered how Melania demonstrated “extraordinary” talent as a model. Lacking demonstrable evidence of extraordinariness, this was probably done through endorsement letters from people in the modelling field. It is likely that her then boyfriend, now notoriously hard on immigration president, Donald Trump, a man with many connections and contacts in that field, pulled some strings and asked for some favors to get her such letters.
Melania and Donald Trump had a big fancy wedding with many celebrity guests. The guest list included Bill and Hillary Clinton, Chris Christie, politicians, billionaires, and countless celebrities including several of the Liberal Trump despising actors, actresses, and musical performers that now publicly criticize Trump. Some have commented that a large segment of the swamp he promised to drain has attended his three weddings over the years. Finally, my books . . . Yeah, I've written books. Please check them out and see if they interest you.
“Melania Trump's Bright Green Dress On Final RNC Night Screams Meme,” by Andrew Limbong. NPR
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/28/906986560/melania-trumps-bright-green-dress-on-final-rnc-night-screams-meme
“HaHA! Melania Trumps Green Dress gets green screen madeover - Seeall the styles Trump RNC Convention,” uploaded on August 27, 2020 by Tony Dortie - 24/7 Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCs6S7uWn2k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbeaFgDS_o
“Donald Trump's 7-Year-Old Son, Barron, Uses Caviar Moisturizer Every Night” April 11, 2013, Updated January 20, 2017. Huffington Post.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trumps-son-barron-caviar-moisturizer_n_3063299
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43256318
“The huge questions about Melania Trump’s immigration history nobody will answer,” by Aaron Blake. February 21, 2018 The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/21/the-huge-questions-about-melania-trumps-immigration-history-nobody-will-answer/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/nyregion/melania-trumps-parents-become-us-citizens.html
“Trump's wedding to Melania was 15 years ago. It explains so much about our cultural moment,” by Steve Krakauer January 22, 2020. NBC News.
September 17, 2020
Marla Maples, Donald Trump Wife # 2 -- Scams from the Great Beyond -The Presidential Edition
Another patented "TRUMPinfoDUMP" from the cut parts of "Scams from the Great Beyond -The Presidential Edition."
Marla Maples, Donald Trump Wife # 2
The couple got married three months after Tiffany was born. Their wedding was, like most Trump functions, attended by several celebrities, including strangely enough, Rosie O’Donnell, the comedian who he has publicly insulted.
They had one daughter named Tiffany, reportedly named after “Tiffany’s,” a famous, upscale Manhattan jewelry store
Which kind of explains why I am really curious to know why Trump's second son is named "Eric." I confess, I still have no idea.
They divorced about six years later amidst issues involving Marla Maples and her bodyguard being discovered alone together under a lifeguard stand. They have both denied having an affair. Apparently, they both just wanted to climb under a lifeguard stand at the same time.
Finally, my books . . . Yeah, I've written books. Please check them out and see if they interest you.
https://nypost.com/2017/01/20/donald-trump-in-new-york-post-covers/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marla_Maples
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/donald-trumps-very-retro-tabloid-scandal/550754/
“Tabloid covers from the '90s show the insanity of Trump's divorce from ex-wife Ivana,” by Sarah Jacobs Oct 10, 2017. Business Insider.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ivana-divorce-tabloid-covers-2017-10#billion-dollar-blowup-she-wants-the-plaza-hell-take-manhattan-americas-gaudiest-couple-square-off-in-an-old-fashioned-battle-over-babes-and-bucks-direct-from-aspen-palm-beach-and-new-york-city-heres-the-latest-dish-4
