Trump-based sequentials - 2

Continuing the trumpSaga(TM)... Here we find Trump during the heady days of the '80s, amid his rise to tabloid stardom. He was buying beauty pageants left and right... Taking the poised bathing beauties out on his yacht... Going clubbing at exclusive hangouts with models he picked up by, well, calling up modelling agencies and asking who was on hand.

And indeed, as my lame "punchline" indicates, he is said by associates to have been at least as interested in bags of candy bars and watching TV as he was in hanging with the ladies. Perhaps it was all just an image, just branding for his persona? He was not just selling real estate--- he was selling an aspirational fantasy lifestyle, after all. And appealing to some base desire we (apparently?) all have to coat everything in gold, hang out on yachts, and bang bikini-clad blonde bimbos.

Trump sequentials - 1

I've been reading a Trump biography ("Trump Revealed"), got inspired to maybe do a few strips based on his storied and checkered past.

On a side note-- These official stories they give you always leave so many unanswered questions. For instance, they talk in this book about his German grandfather coming to the US in the late 1800s (IIRC), having trained as a barber. That was it, he had barber skills, and otherwise, so far as they tell us, was a young man with little money to his name. In fact, he was even described as being of slight build, unsuited for the family grape/ winery business, or something like that. So not extremely charismatic one imagines.

Yet somehow, in his initial foray to the West, he ends up owning a newly built hotel out in Oregon or someplace...! And then some kind of sketchy brothel/ saloon further north in Canada (again, IIRC, that was the gist of it anyway.) But how? Why would he be lent money to build a hotel? Or let in on it in any way? Which is all glossed over anyway, they don't mention how that transpired.

Then, he returns to Germany, now with a fortune. Takes a German wife. But, being considered a draft dodger, despite his fortune and the good word of his family and friends, the bureaucrats kick him out of Germany. He returns to the US, goes to Wall Street and (despite his wealth... did he blow it all?), works as a BARBER again! Cutting plutocrats' hair, on Wall Street. Then, after some short time, he gets hot tips(?) or something, and is back in business, investing in real estate or whatever else, getting rich.

That was Friedrich Drumpf (or Tromph or Dromp or 5 or 6 other possible variations of the family name.)

Peak Palaver - January

ITEM! "Peak Palaver" feature begins here at Peak Fun Megacorp

Beginning here, now, today I'm instituting a brand new kick ass feature called Peak Palaver. This will be a long running, unstoppable juggernaut of news and information about the happenings here at the ol' megacorp. A look into the insights, gems, and pearls of wisdom I might drop from time to time. You're welcome.

ITEM! I Can't Think of any More Items for this Edition

Yes, it looks like the ol' megacorp of ideas is running dry... I was going to write about Drew Struzan, a famous movie poster artist I came across recently. But, you know... I don't feel like it. Maybe next time. It's a nice day outside for once, after this long cold spell we've been through here in the deep-mid-South (Birmingham.) 

I will just add that the cartoon above is inspired from the McCarthy hearings of the '50s, which I've been reading about lately (tangentially, since I've been reading about Trump and his lawyer in the 70s, Roy Cohn. And Cohn was a big player in the McCarthy hearings.)