Long live the Donald
posted by robert - May 18th, 2005 at 7:25 PM“He just doesn’t do a thing in the world for me.” So sayeth my mother about the Donald — Donald Trump. I’m a bit more positive: I get a kick out of his media image, the whole cranky-powerful thing, but I couldn’t care less about him other than that.
And then Preble sends me this link: Trump sets his sights on Ground Zero …and all of a sudden I see the man in a whole new light. Since the day the “Freedom Tower” plans were unveiled I was against them. To put some fake skyscraper up in the place of the towers just screamed — to me, anyway — “victory” for the 9/11 terrorists. It felt like a wimpy, poser solution: “Well, we can’t not put something back up, or otherwise it’ll be blatantly obvious even to us that they won that round… but we also don’t want to put the Twin Towers back up either because [insert various blathering nonsense here].” I’ve always thought putting the Twin Towers back up would be the ultimate signal to the terrorists around the world that have set their sights on attacking America: “You’ve bitten off more than you can chew, punchy. Call-ahead seating is now available for your seventy-two virgin stop — here’s a quarter.” And now the Donald is proposing it.
Hooyah :)