While some in our US media have at times undecorously compared the 47th President to
Hitler, just perhaps a far more fitting, not to mention instructive, historical analogy would be
Hearst!
The reasons might become obvious. Both became Republicans in their adulthood, both were the
spoiled scions of relatively wealthy fathers and doting mothers who indulged their every whim, both
did everything with the proverbial "grand gesture" and felt that money itself was the key, not only to
success, but in fact to true happiness in life, both withstood nill opposition in their pursuit of wealth
along with the power that comes with it, and both had it seems a gargantuan appetite for the opposite
sex; Trump with Marla Maples, Hearst with Marion Davies, among others.
All this only became clearer to me after having watched for the umpteenth glorious time Orson Welles'
singular masterpiece "Citizen Kane" (1941).
Hitler, just perhaps a far more fitting, not to mention instructive, historical analogy would be
Hearst!
The reasons might become obvious. Both became Republicans in their adulthood, both were the
spoiled scions of relatively wealthy fathers and doting mothers who indulged their every whim, both
did everything with the proverbial "grand gesture" and felt that money itself was the key, not only to
success, but in fact to true happiness in life, both withstood nill opposition in their pursuit of wealth
along with the power that comes with it, and both had it seems a gargantuan appetite for the opposite
sex; Trump with Marla Maples, Hearst with Marion Davies, among others.
All this only became clearer to me after having watched for the umpteenth glorious time Orson Welles'
singular masterpiece "Citizen Kane" (1941).
