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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Mon Mar 4, 2019, 04:44 PM Mar 2019

'Trump is to the US presidency as Ted Baxter is to Walter Cronkite'!!

(Found at juanajean--sp?)

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'Trump is to the US presidency as Ted Baxter is to Walter Cronkite'!! (Original Post) bobbieinok Mar 2019 OP

Nah........... MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #1

And his TV wife Horizens Mar 2019 #2

It took me a minute but that's the perfect comparison! lunatica Mar 2019 #3

Ted Baxter admired Walter Cronkite. LisaM Mar 2019 #4

The similarities... procon Mar 2019 #5

Vain, shallow, buffoon....... MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #6

Puffed up, strutting, supercilious, arrogant phony who is his own... 3catwoman3 Mar 2019 #7

I've thought he was a lot like Ted Baxter. leftyladyfrommo Mar 2019 #8

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)

1. Nah...........

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 04:49 PM

Mar 2019

Baxter was likable!

Horizens

(637 posts)

2. And his TV wife

Reply to MyOwnPeace (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 05:01 PM

Mar 2019

Georgette Franklin Baxter wasn't a birther.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

3. It took me a minute but that's the perfect comparison!

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 05:05 PM

Mar 2019

It actually made me smile in nostalgia.

LisaM

(27,813 posts)

4. Ted Baxter admired Walter Cronkite.

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 05:19 PM

Mar 2019

I think Trump has utter disdain for the presidency.

procon

(15,805 posts)

5. The similarities...

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 05:23 PM

Mar 2019

"...the Baxter character is a broad parody of a vain, shallow, buffoonish TV newsman."

Compare that sitcom discription with "... The presidential character is a broad parody of a vain, shallow, buffoonish American president."

LOL. Works for me... Yeah?