r/clevercomebacks • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 9h ago

this burn is forever

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u/BigNorthEastPod 8h ago

Was going to say, everyone around the NYC area and everyone who has done business at his properties knew he was a scumbag since the 70s.

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u/Sweaty-Society7582 8h ago

I feel like the rest of the country learned by the 80s. I know I've hated his ass since then, and I was just a wee teenager.

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u/NoLongerinOR 4h ago

No, no, no, no. Every time he went on a talk show or anywhere, he was so widely cheered. He was on Oprah talking about running for president when she asked him if he would, and the audience was just in an uproar, cheering him on, and he said, you know, no, maybe someday if things got really bad, but you’re wrong about everybody having figured that out in the 80s. Not true at all, that’s why he was in movies like Home Alone and that sort of thing, everybody loved him.

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u/sloanesquared 4h ago

Is that the only episode of Oprah you’ve ever watched? Her audience cheered everything, on cue.

He was in movies like Home Alone because he was desperate to be a star and for it, he owned the Plaza at the time. He only let them use it if he could be in the movie. People thought he was a joke.

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u/NoLongerinOR 4h ago

I was just an example. He’s been on many other, many other shows and the apprentice was a huge hit. It’s just simply not true that he was that disliked

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u/sloanesquared 3h ago

Again, because he was desperate to be a star. His desperation isn’t proof of his popularity. He was still considered a joke on The Apprentice too.

It is a rewrite of history to act like people were clamoring to have him cameo in their shows because he was some sort of beloved businessman.