(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.
Did someone say monorail?