Donald Trump insulted Mexican immigrants even though his
men’s clothing line is made in Mexico. Folks, do you realize what this means? In
America, you can be a billionaire even if you’re a total moron.
The Tour De France is here and there are only three
Americans entered in the race. That’s two more than there are American sports
fans who care about the Tour De France.
The Skytrax ranking of the world’s 100 airlines is out and
there isn’t one US airline in the top twenty and Spirit Airlines did not even
make the list. In a related story, Spirit Airlines is now charging passengers a
$50 “We did not make the list” fee.
Since you asked:
Donald Trump is Graveyard Dead
This is not about politics. This is about celebrity. As a celebrity, Donald
Trump has a serious case of Paris Hiltonitis.
Paris Hiltonitis is when someone, who was once a popular
celebrity, becomes a despised bad joke the public hates.
Rosie O’Donnell, Paula Deen, Justin Beiber, Bill Cosby, Lance Armstrong, Brian Williams
and Tiger Woods all have a serious case of Paris Hiltonitis.
My litigant, Conan O’Brien, who does not have Paris Hiltonitis, but could soon (Will explain more about that
later) used to do a bit back when Paris Hilton first got in DUI trouble, where he
started to announce in a joke;
“Paris Hilton is going to jail . . . “
The audience’s cheering and applause was so loud and long,
the bit was Conan would go on a break while they finished cheering wildly for
five minutes. Get his shoes polished. Eat nachos. Get a massage. Then the Consky O’Bonesky would return to the
stage to finish the joke.
This bit went on for a solid week.
How is it possible nobody close to Paris told her about this;
“Paris, you’ve become a punch line to all slutty spoiled
brat jokes, you know that, right?”
Nobody ever told her until it was too late. Since then, Paris, to
her credit, has gone away.
Somebody once asked Paris, during her heyday, how she
thought she was thought of by the public. Her straight-faced and honest
response was;
“Last month I was Googled more than Jesus.”
Donald Trump has the same thing going. This is what happens when
wealthy a-holes become utterly surrounded by butt-smoochers who want to keep their butt-smoocher job.
Donald Trump got canned by NBC before he insulted Mexican
immigrants as drug dealers and rapists. They kicked him off his own show,
“Celebrity Apprentice." Trump tried to spin it that he left the show to run for
president. That, like most things Trump says, is a bold-faced lie.
My litigant, Conan O’Brien, had gone backstage and talked
to Trump about what they were going to talk about. O’Brien wanted to make sure
it was OK with Trump to talk about one of Trump’s many celebrity feuds – I
think this one was with Rosie O’Donnell – and Trump said yes.
As soon as Trump came out and O’Brien brought the feud up,
Trump lied that he had not agreed to talk about Rosie. O’Brien was dumbfounded. But Trump kept
lying. O’Brien - who is used to dealing with difficult prima donnas – was beside
himself.
Not positive, but I don’t think Trump has not been back on
“Conan” since.
Donald Trump is a pathological liar. Ask anyone who has ever
invested in a public Trump offering. No Trump-related public investment offering has ever made
money. Not one.
A bad Q-rating (measure of public likability) is not always bad for business. People still love to hate the Kardashians and Justin Bieber and Tiger Woods and, last time I checked, they were still worth hundreds of millions.
Take Kim Kardashian. People still love to hate her. Her Q-rating is negative - meaning people like to dislike her. Like a car wreck, they still have to watch her shows and buy her perfumes and magazines. But if Kim does one more really shallow and stupid thing, like marry and divorce a Kris Humphries-type in 72 days, she would be as dead as Trump is now becoming.
Donald Trump has an ego so outsized he will not pay and
listen to a savvy public relations expert tell him the truth.
And what is the Donald Trump public relations truth?
The truth is Donald Trump has recently quickly devolved from
a funny oddity – the rich, sour-looking, orange, fat-face, the circus-act hair, horrible,
gold-plated gaudy taste, the affected New Jersey tough-guy accent – sliding all the way down into the
personification of everything that is wrong with out-of-touch wealthy,
pompousness, entitlement, arrogance and rudeness. And yes, ala Paula Deen, now including racism. (Remember when The Donald said; "I love the blacks . . ."?) The blacks. He loves them.
If you follow the past trajectory of celebrities with a
serious case of Paris Hiltonitis, if they are smart at all – and Trump cannot
possibly be as big a moron as he is acting now about Mexico – to recover at all, Trump will have to vanish for
a long time.
If not forever.
But Trump is polling second behind Jeb Bush is the republican race, you say. That is only because Trump is the only other person besides Bush whose name people recognize. One poll had only 1% considering Trump a serious presidential candidate.
Tiger Woods had all the spin-hacks working for him at Nike, NBC and IMG and even he managed to step all over his, well, Tiger’s Wood. He had a sordid affair. That affair Tiger had destroyed their phony “Look at me, I am a nice guy dating Lindsay Vonn, a
pretty fellow star NBC athlete” public relations re-building facade.
The Donald, like with Paris, Rosie, "Jersey Shore's" The Situation, Paula Deen and Tiger Woods, they all prove once a
world-class a-hole, always a world-class a-hole. That is a bell that cannot be
un-rung.
Once the public relations blood flow goes from the nose-bleed trickle
of an amusing popular curiosity to the pulsating throat-gash gushing of being a despised
bad joke, the press piranhas attack and there is no putting the toothpaste back in the tube to mix two or three more
metaphors.
As the great writer, Dan Jenkins - who does not mix metaphors - said of Tiger Woods, is
also true of Donald Trump:
Donald Trump is graveyard dead.
