To a point, we all have a Donald Trump in our lives. They are someone that's a little too egotistical, a little too foolish and a little too loud. Of course, the person that comes to mind very likely doesn't have incredible riches and unlimited television exposure.
As play begins at the British Open, the most patrician of golf tournaments, it's interesting to look at Trump, who, despite the fact that he's had money for some time now, excretes "new money" from his very core.
Last night on the "Colbert Report," they did a story on Trump and his battle against the Southern Californian city of Rancho Palos Verdes and its Mayor Doug Stern. Trump, in promoting his Trump National course has erected a 70-foot pole on his land, with a huge American flag waving from it. On the show, Trump was potrayed as endlessly plugging Trump National as the "best golf course in California, better than Pebble Beach." Even TravelGolf.com's Chris Baldwin disagrees with that assessment, but Colbert's team let The Donald be The Donald.
The mayor expects the city to be portrayed as "un-American" for contesting Trump's right to fly a giant Old Glory, reported the L.A. Daily Breeze.
Methinks you're safe Mayor Stern. The segment was proof of Trump's willingness to do whatever he must do to get someone to aim a camera at him, and his willingness to go to nearly any lengths to promote his latest venture. Trump's patriotism on this issue is nowhere as near as strong as his interest in flipping Stern and town a 70-foot long bird.
Still, as the British Open showcases the class, taste and, let's face it, the gaudy snobbery of golf, Trump remains a difficult-to-dislike character, much like the individual in your life that is most Trump-ian in nature.
With Trump in Scotland at the moment giving away a free electric car to get people behind his hyper-hyped $20-quadrillion golf resort there, you can bet he'll show up at Royal Birkdale for Open action. And you can bet he'll make everyone notice.
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