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(29,503 posts)The New World's revered thinkers date from ... the 18th Century, i.e., 300+ years.
Meanwhile, the Old World's intellectual giants date back THOUSANDS of years.
If the New World had a capital, it would be New York, and for as long as there's been a New York, there have been rich people here who pretend that their wealth translates 1:1 into being elite cognoscenti for every human endeavor, including culture ... regardless of the truth of that notion. Trump is definitely one of these types, who seems to think faux Roman urns and gilding make him Somebody.
Meanwhile, this is the same guy who oversaw the destruction of the Art Deco Bonwit Teller bas reliefs to build Trump Tower, despite the fact that the Metropolitan Museum of Art was willing to take them in as part of their collection. Emperor has no clothes.
http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2016/06/without-artistic-merit-donald-trump.html