The tabloid is the only “literature” that Donald Trump recognizes, because that’s how his mind works, in very small basic cartoonish ways. His entire worldview is no higher than celebrity culture, who’s hot, who’s not, who he might be able to sell something to, and how he can drop names and manipulate publicity. CNN did a review of their KFile and found that between 1981 and 1995 members of the royal famliy were ostensibly buying Trump properties (they were not) and that the source of the misinformation was none other than Trump himself. In September, 1992, a time when Trump was tanking financially, “a New York Post cover story cited as ‘rumor’ that it was ‘maybe started by the Trump Organization’ that Princess Diana was looking to build a $5 million property in Trump Tower.” Of course, Buckingham Palace flatly denied that any such negotiations were taking place. CNN:
That didn’t stop Trump. A year later, during an appearance on the Howard Stern Show in November 1993, Trump was asked if it was true that Princess Diana was looking at an apartment in Trump Tower.–“That’s true,” Trump said.–“Does that mean she’s contacted you?” asked Stern.–“I hope she’s looking at — She is really hot. She has gained 20-25 pounds, she looks great,” Trump said, saying he’d love to date the princess. “There could be a love interest. I’d become King of England. King of England. I’d have to leave, I’d have to lose the New York accent quickly. See they wouldn’t like my accent over there.”–But mostly, Trump said, he wanted Princess Diana to come to a party at Mar-a-Lago.–“We’re going to try to get Lady Di,” Trump said. “We’re trying to get Lady Di actually to come to the party. It’s a part of the deal for buying the apartment in Trump Tower. She can’t have the apartment in Trump Tower unless she comes to the party.”
A year later, in October 1994, another New York Post story, this time on the entire front page, claimed Princess Diana was set to buy a $3.5 million dollar apartment in Trump Tower. “Princess of New York,” the full-page cover read with a photo of Diana.
He is so sleazy and gross.
Cinderella, as reimagined by buffoon Trump. Gag.
I hope this story gets around the UK, because they will be howling. CNN is in the UK and it’s their story, so it should get around.
Oh PLEASE let this all be know by the Royals and entire UK – right now – while he is there.
CNN put this story up. I don’t know how much coverage they’re giving it right now, but it is their story. Isn’t it something? Even if Diana wanted him, marrying the divorced Diana would in no way make him King. He’s so so stupid, about basic common sense things that a kid in school can figure out.
I can’t even… this man should long ago have been set up in a padded room somewhere, so he could play out his fantasy in his own mind without hurting anyone else. And don’t forget, that power of fantasy which you so aptly describe – that was aided and abetted and in some cases even created by our disgusting excuse for a media. Shame.
Trump figured out a way to manipulate publicity way back in the day, with “David Dennison” and “John Barron” as his press agents. Publicity is powerful, as we have so sadly come to realize. You read my piece about getting into the fight with the Lyft driver over his non-information about Trump. He had zero facts, but he bought the initial hype, successful businessman, yes, that’s what we need leading the nation. And I’m all for successful businessmen getting into politics. This travesty we see is not that. Trump is, ironically, the antithesis of a successful businessman, yet that fantasy is what he ran on and what he won on.
I think the Democrats made a mistake during the campaign. Hillary kept knocking Trump’s character. I think the better tack would have been to immediately say that the money was all a lie. If we had done that early in the game, we might have been able to nip it in the bud.
People don’t seem to care about character anymore. Gary Hart got crucified when his character was called into question and twenty some years later, a candidate bragged about “grab ’em by the pussy” and got into office. Hart must be staring at this whole show with his mouth open, I know I am. (I wonder what Abe Lincoln would think if he could come back and see this now? And they use his name?)
I know. It’s almost too stupid to comment on.
To make it even worse for poor ol’ Abe, I just saw that tRump is going to give his 4th July “speech” from the steps of … wait for it … the Lincoln Memorial :((((((
Sweet Jesus, I missed that. I had to do paperwork and boring errands today and didn’t keep up on all the news like I usually do. I did see a headline about Nixon trying to take over July 4th once and so I need to follow up on that. Another Nixon/Trump parallel, do you love it?
Now hold on a minute!!! If I marry a princess are you sure that doesn’t make me a king. WTF!… That’s not what I learned when Daddy paid my way through Wharton.
Daddy should have paid his way through Trump University, for all that he got out of an education.
Trump turns my stomach , he is sicking.
What turns my stomach is the gaslighting he does. He’s being protested in the streets, as we speak, and he’s turning it around that his worshipful supporters are out there. One of his supporters got arrested yesterday, for stabbing the Trump blimp. She also cut her own hand doing it. He sucks up the stupid like a magnetic vacuum cleaner, I’ll say that.
Are you sure that instead of sicking you didn’t mean sucking??!!
I think the commenter means “sickening” but your interpretation will do nicely as well.
We should step in with an anglophile nerd note and point out that you don’t actually become King of England by marrying into the divorced wife of the Prince of Wales. So what would he become?
Diana was the eldest child of Earl Spencer, but the title of Earl would pass to the eldest son, and indeed Charles Spencer became earl upon Diana’s father’s death in 1992. If Diana had been married to Trump…or anyone…that title would still not go to her husband.
Diana herself, upon marriage to Charles, had several titles. One was “her royal highness,” an important style signifying her connection to the crown. Also, Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, and Duchess of Rothesay. When Diana divorced Charles, she was no longer Duchess, but Queen Elizabeth also had the option to strip Diana of whatever styles she saw fit. Queen Elizabeth opted for Diana to retain Princess of Wales, but removed Her Royal Highness as a show that Diana no longer had the direct connection to the crown. When Diana passed away, Camilla had the option to take the style Princess of Wales, but chose not to out of respect for Lady Di.
The point being that absolutely none of these titles were ever transferable to anyone who later married Diana. If she’d married someone without a royal style post-divorce, that person likely would have been given the title “the honorable.”
Now, let’s assume that in an alternate universe Diana was Queen Regent. And let’s say she married an American, or anyone without a title. That person would not automatically be entitled to a royal style, but they’d probably be offered one. The highest possible title would be Prince Consort…because that’s what a royal married to a Queen Regent is where they are not in the line of succession. But I don’t think someone without any royal lineage would be offered Prince Consort. Possibly Lord or The Honorable.
And here’s a funny thought – in this interview, Trump is fantasizing that if he married Diana he’d get these amazing titles and power. In an alternate universe where he did marry her and she was Queen, their firstborn son would outrank Donald at the moment of conception. At that child’s christening, they would be recognized by the crown with a style that would be of higher rank than any Donald could ever obtain, even in this impossible scenario. He’d go his entire life with alt-universe Barron being of higher rank.
And because I’m running this alt-universe scenario, let’s cut to the end – Donald in the Tower of London for the rest of his life. Alt-universe closed for business.
So anyway, that’s how the styles in his fantasy would have worked. He would have become a big nothing…which means he’d pretty much be what he already was.
Thank you for sharing this. I couldn’t believe how stupid Trump is, but then again, his life is a cartoon, and that would be a good development in a cartoon now, would it not? The humor of what you shared is that the best Trump could do would get the designation “Honorable” — and there is nothing about that man that merits that description in the least. Indeed, the only way he could get it, would be to marry somebody with a title. HA!
Thank you…my (immigrant) great grandmother would be happy I put her Anglican lessons to use, lol.
Next time maybe we can brainstorm Trump’s coat of arms in this hypothetical. That’s be a hard one…do we go with a hyena, a screeching obese canary, or what? Do cockroaches qualify as a coat of arms supporter animal??
Oh, God that’s funny. A Trump coat of arms. How about a dream sequence where Trump does marry Lady Diana and becomes King and he produces a coat of arms to hang on the wall with the rest — and it is something grotesque? How about a greedy rat, on a mountain of cheese, something like that??
We all have fantasies, but most of us have enough sense to keep them to ourselves, a filter that this bozo is so sadly lacking. He really IS a clown.
The real tragedy is that the GOP allowed this to happen. Trump is not a self-made billionaire, but he is a self-invented celebrity, just by being the weirdo he’s always been. He managed to parlay his strangeness into a reality TV show, appearances on TV and radio, and he ruled the tabloids. He’s a court jester, albeit one with his hand in everybody’s pocket.
This pig is the one that the GOP put lipstick on and said was a viable leader. That’s the part I don’t know if I’ll ever get over. I thought the GOP was insane when they nominated Bush over McCain, but at least Bush was in public office, it wasn’t complete madness. Nominating Trump WAS complete madness — and I hope that they pay a hell of a price for it, I sincerely do.
I for one don’t think Princess Diana would have given Trump the time of day if he’d propositioned her in front of a warehouse (that she owned) full of clocks! I think for all his bragging about supermodels it’s pretty much bullshit too. Models? Ones with no name/reputation such as trophy wife #3 Melania? Sure. But true supermodels who have plenty of rich guys who actually know shit and act with a bit of class would size up Trump in about two seconds and give him the cold shoulder.
Fortunately for Trump the Royal Family (especially Diana’s sons) know better than to spend any time along with Trump. I can easily imagine him making some comment “I could have fucked your mom if I’d really wanted to” and. Given their own stature in the world they could probably get away with handling things old school but they of course wouldn’t. However just glaring at him and leaning his way & ONLY acting like they were going to cock of fist would have him screaming like a first grader for “mommy” (the Secret Service) to come protect him or better still running to hide behind them – as the Prince (whichever one) simply stood in place with his best championship wrestling “what did I say/do?” smirk. They know just humiliating him in front of his protection detail would eat him alive for the rest of his days.
And yes, Trump is that boorish to say something like that or close to it. In the end he’s just showing the UK how much of an oafish asshole he truly is. If I were a right wing politician over there I’d be wanting to keep my distance from all things Trump. They know everything he touches turns to shit and his “endorsement” could prove politically fatal!
Trump has described Melania as a “supermodel.” What great ad campaigns did she ever do? How many covers was she ever on? I know I sound catty when I go off like this, but there are nothing but lies with her, just like with him. She purportedly speaks five languages fluently. She has only demonstrated pidgin English beyond her own Slovenian. And she’s lived here how many years?
I dated a guy from Russia once and his fluency grew perceptively as time went by. If Melania’s fluency is where it is after all these years, she’s either stupid or she doesn’t care, or both.
Her so-called “English” is irritating. I have a Mexican friend who has been in this country almost as long as Melania and the only way you’d know English wasn’t her native language is because when she gets excited she talks really, really fast and you think “Oh, your first language MUST be Spanish!” (She also speaks French; I don’t believe Melania speaks any other languages).
Melania claims to be fluent in Italian, French, German, and some other Slavic tongue besides Slovenian. Why, I wonder, did she never display this gift with Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, anybody abroad? I’m sure it would have been as endearing as when Jackie used to speak French, Italian and Spanish — and she was fluent. The French went out of their minds over Jackie. If Melania really had this skill, it would go a lonnng way towards cementing international relations. It’s all bulls*it, like everything else about these people.
Supermodel? I thought she was an underwear model. Maybe that’s just what they call it where she comes from. tRump loves him some scantily dressed women and women who sell themselves. He’s such a perv, and look at all the perv’s around him. Nader, Broidy, Kraft. Like is drawn to like. That explains all the crooks as well.
Everything is hype with these people. All form, zero substance. Unfortunately, there is an anti-intellectual segment of our populace that actually is threatened by human achievement, (or something) and they like Trump because he’s a boor with money and they think that’s “cool.” They actually envy him. What is cool about that is beyond me — but then I’m not a MAGAt.
Funny kind of underwear model she was, since according to the pictures I’ve seen floating around the twitter, she wasn’t wearing any … thing.
She lives with the dotard. How is she going to learn anything?
If she was motivated to learn, she would. She has opportunity, time and money. There’s no excuse for ignorance with those assets.
I’ve worked with people from other countries, where English was the second or third language, and they’re far more fluent than “Melamine”. (I’ve heard one of my docs speaking Armenian, English, and Spanish.)
I’ve had the same experience. I’ve known people fluent in two, three languages and I worked with a woman from Ukraine who honest to God could speak five. She was brilliant.
People should really be concerned about his mental stability. There’s no question he’s delusional, but recently his speech has been blurred and bizarre which is a signal of dementia (which runs in the family).
You know, maybe that’s our salvation. Maybe he’s trying to hang on with medication, and something’s going wrong. Maybe he’ll just collapse and have to resign. But then we’d be looking at the theocratic wingnut in office. Jesus Christ, what a nightmare this is.
What is with Trump always commenting on what women weigh? Maybe he should contemplate what’s in his mirror.
I think when he looks in the mirror he only sees himself in his mid-20s, when he wasn’t nearly as fat and was a lot richer, if not smarter.
Women are just flesh to him. It’s like buying a steak. He even said that Diana was “crazy” but he’d sleep with her anyway, or words to that effect.