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In reply to the discussion: My husband calls him Corleone. [View all]calimary
(81,267 posts)Point taken.
I think guys like this new fellow on the team do more to further the cliches than anybody else.
It looks like the Central Casting effect to me. I even find myself suspecting that trump likes this guy because trump fancies himself looking like him. Young, handsome, intensely groomed, and totally camera-ready, rather than old, rumpled, and orange.
Mooshy looks and behaves as though he's VERY proud of his looks and his "charms". Probably used them on girls since he was old enough to sweet-talk them. He's a WORLD CLASS manipulator.
I used to see guys like these hanging around my dad - who was old, rumpled, and well - NOT orange. He liked these slick-looking specimens. They sold the sales line more effectively.
You have to remember, too: Looks are EVERYTHING with trump. They're EVERYTHING. Appearances are EVERYTHING. You have to have the most beautiful girls surrounding you, the most glamorous wife, the most superior offspring (look at the grooming on those sons of his), the biggest buildings, the gold trappings surrounding him from the wallpaper and chandeliers on down. EVERYTHING.
Thinking back to the Reagan era, too - STAGING was EVERYTHING. How things looked. The production values. The outward appearances. The high-ranking PR guys like Michael Deaver always at the boss's elbow.
It's Central Casting as a political weapon. Weaponized Central Casting. All I'm saying is - just be aware of it. It's a weapon they're using to manage public perception. Remember trump's first criticisms of Sean Spicer? Looked terrible, suit didn't even fit well. LOOKS. LOOKS are IT. Looks are EVERYTHING. The only two people who don't fit that mold that he still has close by are Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon. Bannon stays in the shadows. Kellyanne looks like somebody mopped the floor with her most of the time - except I will say that after she disappeared for awhile, earlier this year, I think she went out and had some face work done. And you need time for the nips 'n' tucks and fillers to settle in and heal up.