Have you ever met Donald Trump in real life? Is he the same person that the media portrays him to be? How is he different when not seen through the eyes of the media?
Barnard Law Collier, Former New York Times correspondent, bureau chief, magazine editor, writer
Updated 12h ago
HE WAS A PANSY AND A PUNK THEN, NO DIFFERENT NOW.
Yes, in the 1960s in Manhattan at various venues, mostly steak houses, where he and his secret gay lover Roy Marcus Cohn hung out. He was well known as a punk then, a pretty boy pansy son of a crypto-Nazi father who would slap his face in public for some clothing infraction. He supposedly didn’t drink, but he usually held glasses of something, maybe water. He was clearly in love with Cohn; his rare heartfelt smiles were saved mostly for when Cohn turned up. He knew even then that much of the “press” (now called media) was parasitic and loved to be fed stories, true or suspect, so he took the cue from Cohn and cultivated gullible and greedy reporters all he could. I was a reporter for the New York Times then and his very presence irritated me. His vibe was duplicitous, deceitful, made my skin crawl. He was under Cohn’s complete thrall, and he learned Cohn’s fundamental lesson about America: “Don’t tell me about the law, tell me about the judges.” Cohn died of AIDS, although he denied he had the disease until the bitter end, but his lifelong influence on Trump was enormous. He was Trump’s personal lawyer for almost a decade and his mentor for several years more. That Trump is President of the United States would make Roy Marcus Cohn laugh mirthlessly. Trump is Cohn’s surreal postmortem revenge on a legal and social system that eventually disbarred him from legal practice and would have jailed him if he hadn’t died first. Trump was one of his two only character witnesses at his disbarment hearing. Trump was the gay son of a brutal and greedy German fascist and the protege of a brilliant and cynical fixer. So he remains today.
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I wish to add the following exchange to my answer to explain the use of the word “PANSY” in the headline. PUNK speaks for itself.
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Michael Willhoite
While I have to object to the word pansy (I myself am gay), I have little difficulty believing this. Trump, unlike many gay men, clearly despises women, and uses them as a shield. The rest of your description of this monster seems right on target.
At the time I’m speaking about the word “pansy” did not refer to gay men but to a pretty face on a spineless coward and twerp. Male homosexuality was involved in his sexual choices, but it was his character that “pansy” then described. He has long played up to women, perhaps even inseminated them, to prove what a virile “man” he is, even though his true ideas of manliness come from 1930s German Nazi youth movement cartoons. |
