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kpete

(72,046 posts)
Sat May 7, 2016, 11:26 AM May 2016

"The Twilight Zone"



“What are your goals?” he (Trump) was once asked in a television interview when he was at the peak of his success. “Goals?” he repeated, apparently taken aback by this foreign concept, unable to imagine a sense of purpose grander than a scorecard. “You keep winning and you win and you win,” he said in the midst of the crisis, reflecting on his better days. “You keep hitting and hitting. And then somehow it doesn’t mean as much as it used to.”


Donald liked to recall his favorite “Twilight Zone” episode, which featured a venal man who died in an accident, was offered any wish he wanted, and declared: “I want to win, win, win. Everything I want. I went to get. I want to get the most beautiful women. I want to get the beautiful this and that. I want to never lose again.” Then, as Donald recounted the story, the man was shown playing pool, winning every time. “Everything he did, he won,” said Donald, until the godlike figure who’d granted his wish came back to the man. “And the man said, ‘If this is Heaven, let me go to Hell.’ And the person said, ‘You are in Hell.’ (pp. 31-32)


Video & more:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2h6qm0_the-twilight-zone-sea-1-ep-28-a-nice-place-to-visit_tv
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/watch-this-is-the-twilight-zone-episode-that-inspired-donald-trumps-bizarre-lifestyle/
http://www.amazon.com/Trump-Deals-Downfall-Wayne-Barrett/dp/0060167041
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