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Did Donald Trump copy Walter Trump's con job?

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Donald Trump’s border-wall antics were pioneered by Walter Trump, a 1958 TV con man.

Luckily for him, some suggestions might be found in his medium of choice: daytime television. Specifically, a TV western titled Trackdown, which aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959 at 8:30 pm (reruns have been airing during the daytime for the past few years) and followed the adventures of Texas ranger Hoby Gilman. In the 30th episode of the show, which aired on May 9, 1958 with the title “The End of The World,” an interesting character makes an appearance: a man named… Trump. Walter Trump.

Trump is a con man—we’re talking about the show—who comes to ranger Gilman’s town to warn people that the end of the world is nigh, and offering his services to prevent it. And how will 1958 TV con-man Trump, stop the end of the world? By building a wall, of course!
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This was a show called Trackdown that aired in 1958 on television when Donald Trump was about 14 years old. Is Trump just mimicking Walter Trump (no relation)?

There are just too many similarities between the show then and Trump's action now to be just a coincidence.

By the way, here is the definition of a con man just in case you didn't know it:

Con Man:

A person who defrauds or swindles others after first gaining their trust

and here is a link to an article that came out last year but could have easily been written today after yesterday's long press conference.

In Donald Trump’s bizarre, meandering 81-minute press conference on Wednesday, he often returned to his favorite words, lexical touchstones that he looped back to again and again, providing a patina of coherence and structure to his stubbornly unstructured discourse.

Twenty-two times he said believe, though frequently to state disbelief. (“Nobody in this room believes it.” “Honestly, nobody knows who to believe.”) Love came up 13 times, as he managed to profess his affection for Canada, China, farmers, and even The New York Times. He relied on his usual fleet of positive and negative adjectives, with everything arrayed in a Manichaean dichotomy: on one side, incredible, tremendous, and beautiful; and on the other, horrible, bad, and (for news, of course) fake. Tellingly, he said his own name 15 times, whether it was to quote an unnamed expert who said that “China has total respect for Donald Trump and for Donald Trump’s very, very large brain,” or to implore a Times reporter to say “Thank you, Mr. Trump.”
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I think it's fun to find stuff from the past that's relevant today. But it's crazy to believe it's meaningful.

 
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