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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 05:38 PM Jan 2017

Something's Up with Twitler wanting to be Compared to the Kennedys

I noticed Bill Gates said it...and now so has CNN...

Umm...

Does it dawn on anyone that the last guy was like Jack Kennedy? Like, really?

wtf? Now we will start seeing Trump/Kennedy memes, and I don't even get this. Jack Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected president.

First catholic

This is just beyond.

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mnhtnbb

(31,407 posts)
6. Really.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 05:47 PM
Jan 2017

The comparison of Melania to Jackie O has me rolling on the floor.

Melania is what they called--in the 80's--Euro trash.

Jackie was a photographer when JFK met her--not a nude model like Melania.
Jackie did not plagiarize speeches. She ended up a well respected editor at
Doubleday in her later years. She was also very involved in historic preservation--particularly Grand Central Station--
unlike that a$$hole Trump who tore down the old Bonwit's to build his Trump Tower--and reneged on his
promise to preserve architectural details of the old building.

Fu*k Donald and Melania both.

haele

(12,682 posts)
4. Uhhh...no.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 05:46 PM
Jan 2017

Bay of Pigs comes to mind.
Along with a few other things. And it didn't end very well for the Kennedys.

While "Camelot" is a wonderful dream when looking at it in hindsight, 1961 to 1963 was not necessarily a great time for most people in U.S. History. We were still in the midst of a struggle for Civil Rights and an economy that was still leaving a good 20% of the country behind.

True, we were experiencing a science and technology boom - because of the investment in NASA. I don't see that sort of investment on the horizon with this administration.

Unless they're comparing Drumphf's new money background. But Old Fred didn't push the idea of civic service and citizenship with his kids.

Haele

LeftofObama

(4,243 posts)
5. I was in the car this morning and forgot it was ignorgoration day. I had CNN on and I swear I heard
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 05:47 PM
Jan 2017

Dana Bash saying the way Malaria Trump was dressed it reminded her of Jackie Kennedy.

haele

(12,682 posts)
14. It was the coat, gloves, and heels combo. Her dress-coat was cut in a 1960's style.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 06:14 PM
Jan 2017

From the pictures I saw of the event, their stylist went with a very. 60's throwback look, a pastel color with the fitted dress-coat, 3/4 coat sleeves, cowl neck, and elbow gloves. The hair style was a simple 60's chignon - but to really look the part, she should have had a small pillbox or band hat.

Ms. Drumphf's pumps were a bit taller than Mrs. Kennedy would have worn; my mom wore a pair of heels at her 1958 wedding that, other than the heel height (mom's were 2 1/2&quot and the color, could have been exactly the same pair.

Haele

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
13. as much as I can't stand Twitler or Putin, I do NOT want them to be harmed
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 06:14 PM
Jan 2017

They do deserve for us to tell the truth about them though.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
9. They are not good looking enough and no one likes them.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 05:55 PM
Jan 2017

Also, Kennedy wrote books and made inspiring speeches that made America REALLY want to be great. Trump made reality TV shows.

JFK: "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Trump: "You're fired!"

JFK thought science and education was key to winning the cold war. Remember putting a man on the moon? THAT was intense. Can you imagine Trump asking his supporters to make a sacrifice or to get educated so we can win the economic cold war that is looming? And Trump is, at best, a Russian toady and at worst and actual asset. JFK was absolutely not going to appease or condone anything they did. He fought a brutal war of ideas with them and WON. Trump has already rolled over and shown Putin his belly. We know who the alpha dog is in that relationship.

Trump is a demagogue. Trump's mentor freakin' WORKED for Joe McCarthy! JFK my ass.... Point and laugh at anyone who tries to flog that tired BS. It is weak sauce.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. Are we seeing a Media
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 05:59 PM
Jan 2017

creation here. Sure as hell looks like it. When the sound bites do not change public opinion,go for the Optics.

hatrack

(59,593 posts)
12. Jack Kennedy on the gurney at Parkland Hospital had more charisma than this fucking TOAD . . .
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 06:05 PM
Jan 2017

And that's a terrible thing to say about toads, I know.

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