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Paris Hilton Could Out-Trump Trump in 2016
National Review ^ | August 20, 2015 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 08/20/2015 1:31:42 PM PDT by Steelfish

Paris Hilton Could Out-Trump Trump in 2016

by Kevin D. Williamson August 20, 2015

Donald Trump’s admirers, like those of Ross Perot in an earlier epoch, cite his business success as his main qualification and believe that the acumen that he has demonstrated in making himself rich enough to do incredibly vulgar things like gold-plating the seatbelt buckles in his airplane is a skill that’s transferable to things like trade policy and immigration law. There may be something to that line of thinking, but Ross Perot is not the entrepreneur whom Trump most closely resembles.

You heard it here first: Paris Hilton 2016. Trump has a great deal in common with Hilton, much more than a famous blond hair-do. Hilton is — or was, more on that in a bit — an heiress to a splendid fortune based in part on real estate. Trump, despite his eternal posturing as novus homo, is a New York City trust-fund brat who inherited a vast real-estate portfolio from his father.

Hilton used her standing as a figure of public interest to create a career for herself as a celebrity, as someone who is “famous for being famous,” as the saying goes. Trump still owns a great deal of real estate, but his largest asset, according to his own financial statements, is his celebrity: He values his personal brand at many billions of dollars, more than any building or golf course or property he owns. .

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; donaldtrump; election2016; kevindwilliamson; mindlessmeanderings; nationalreview; newyork; parishilton; pig; trump
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1 posted on 08/20/2015 1:31:42 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Seriously? This isn’t the bottom of the barrel, this is the dirt 8 feet below that.


2 posted on 08/20/2015 1:34:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Steelfish

They’re going bat-droppings crazy now.

Crazy, I tell ya!


3 posted on 08/20/2015 1:34:37 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Her father was a real estate mogul she was a airhead fameous for being fameous?


4 posted on 08/20/2015 1:37:20 PM PDT by Leep (Vote Bush! Join the Bush League! Why? Because we say so!)
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To: Steelfish

Your just jealous


5 posted on 08/20/2015 1:37:40 PM PDT by BRL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy continually writes this kind of stuff. The editorial staff at NRO also is negative about Trump, and no one else. They’ve obviously pressured the others to write negative articles, so we’re seeing them from Thomas Sowell, George Will and Victor Hanson Davis and others. They did the exact same thing to Reagan.


6 posted on 08/20/2015 1:37:42 PM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: Steelfish

FYI his son Barron is named after his friend Barron Hilton


7 posted on 08/20/2015 1:38:06 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: Steelfish

famous,that is.


8 posted on 08/20/2015 1:38:21 PM PDT by Leep (Vote Bush! Join the Bush League! Why? Because we say so!)
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To: Steelfish

alas we mourn the passing of the National Review. That once proud publication of thought and insight. Now as it has descended to the abyss of beltway disease and mob thuggery it relieves itself and throws away the proud history of those who preceded.


9 posted on 08/20/2015 1:38:45 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why? She started reality tv before Trump. He copied her. At least Paris Hilton is a capitalist. Meanwhile, Trump is friends with Perez Hilton.


10 posted on 08/20/2015 1:40:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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11 posted on 08/20/2015 1:41:40 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Leep

Paris Hilton is famous for ‘being penetrated’.


12 posted on 08/20/2015 1:42:06 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: nickcarraway

Look up “mental hygiene” and take a test to see if that might be a problem for you.


13 posted on 08/20/2015 1:42:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Steelfish

The same guy at NR spewing tiresome trite nonstop, apparently desperate for some blog traffic his way.


14 posted on 08/20/2015 1:44:56 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Steelfish

NR sure isn’t what it used to be. That was the weirdest column I have ever read on NR.


15 posted on 08/20/2015 1:45:05 PM PDT by GregoTX (Remember the Alamo)
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To: nickcarraway
You need help boy. To even equate Paris or Perez Hilton with Don Trump is bizarre, but you, of course, take it over the top.
16 posted on 08/20/2015 1:45:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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Seems like National Review doesn't like Trump. Paris Hilton equals Donald Trump meme. Well, both are entertainers, and rich.

I'm starting a new meme...

Trump to presidential candidates: Do you hear that giant sucking sound? It's me consuming all of the electrons, print ink and oxygen out of the atmosphere.

5.56mm

17 posted on 08/20/2015 1:49:47 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: nickcarraway

Trump is the Paris Hilton of politics.


18 posted on 08/20/2015 1:50:21 PM PDT by South40 (Falling for Trump's rhetoric while ignoring his liberal past is incredibly foolish)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why they are both reality tv stars who inherited from their parents.


19 posted on 08/20/2015 1:52:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Really really digging....


20 posted on 08/20/2015 1:52:46 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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