Sleazy grifts, crappy steaks and comb-overs: Donald Trump is the perfect fiction anti-hero
Raw StoryHe could hear it coming up from behind him, maybe a block away, the basso thump of hip-hop. The Black guy laughed and pulled off, nodding, “F--- Donald Trump” fading in the afternoon glare. At home, he googled “hip hop song F--- Donald Trump” and found it on Wiki: “‘FDT’ is a protest song by YG featuring Nipsey Hussle, and is the second single from the album Still Brazy. He got one old white guy to give a thumbs-up to “F--- Donald Trump,” if so. And now that he thought about it, there has never been a more perfect Elmore Leonard character than Donald Trump, a man with the soul of motel furniture: the orange makeup, the absurd comb-over, the sleazy grifts, shady lawyers, porn stars, foreign nationals, crappy steaks, real estate cons, the fake university, the phony charity — all pieces of an amoral, lifelong quest for money and power.