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Watch This 1958 TV Show Featuring a Fraud Named ‘Trump’ Promising a Magic Wall

(via) This has been out there in the ether since Donald Trump’s electoral college victory but I just saw it for the first time over the weekend (and nearly spilled my milk):

The writer and animator Alex Hirsch on Thursday flagged a quirk of television history with an odd connection to present-day politics: In 1958, CBS aired an episode of the series Trackdown called “The End of the World,” in which a confidence man named Trump attempts to sell a western town a “wall”…

Only a lawman smells bullshit, but the townspeople fall for it hook, line and sinker…

Narrator: The people were ready to believe. Like sheep they ran to the slaughterhouse. And waiting for them was the high priest of fraud.

Trump: I am the only one. Trust me. I can build a wall around your homes that nothing will penetrate.

Townperson: What do we do? How can we save ourselves?

Trump: You ask how do you build that wall. You ask, and I’m here to tell you…

Spoiler: it’s not Mexico.

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