Source:
Conspiracy School
By David Livingstone on Fri, 09/29/2017
Final scene of Being There.
Chauncey Trump
Trump can be likened to the Chauncey Gardiner character of the 1979 film
Being There, a simpleton installed in power by secret puppeteers. Like Chauncey, Trump "likes to watch," and has a notorious appetite for television. Nor, like Chauncey, does he read. Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Trump's 1987 book
The Art of the Deal told
The New Yorker that in the 18 months he spent with Trump, he "never saw a book on Trump’s desk, or elsewhere in his office, or in his apartment."
[1] Schwartz told the magazine, "I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life." Trump explained he does not need to read extensively because he is able to come to correct decisions "with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words 'common sense,' because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability."
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