(March 19, 2024 at 12:31 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(March 18, 2024 at 11:16 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: He reminds me of Jay Gatsby.
But, then again, I haven’t read the book in about a decade, but IIRC, Gatsby was at least solvent. Granted, he probably wouldn’t have stayed that way if he survived to see the Great Depression, but still.
I meant it more that he's a "self-made" man -- in the sense that he reinvents himself, because he lives in fear of no one respecting him. Sometimes on a daily basis in Trump's case. He fears being seen as the fraud he is.