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TPM posted an article in 2019 that is a bit too eerie and also sadly another confirmation of "history repeats itelf": A Trump 1950s TV Episode Truth Movement?. Excerpts:
A conman named Trump comes to a town and gets everyone panicked that the world is about to end unless they agree to let him build a wall that will save them.
Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was already a figure of some notoriety, at least in the greater New York region and actually beyond. Though he was a successful businessman and real estate investor, he also had a reputation as a huckster and a racist from New York to Washington, DC and to a degree nationwide.
No less a figure than Woody Guthrie, who leased one of Fred Trump’s Beach Haven apartments from 1950 to 1952, wrote or wrote new lyrics for a number of songs attacking Trump. Here’s one example.
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project ….
Fred Trump had also figured prominently in 1954 Senate hearings into profiteering off federal subsidies designed to support affordable housing for returning World War II veterans.
