# Jimmy Breslin on Donald Trump

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**Created:** [March 21, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-breslin-on-donald-trump/782687 "2017-03-21T14:37:38Z")\
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The \*Daily News \*is reprinting Jimmy Breslin’s columns on Donald Trump.

[-=Linky=-](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/jimmy-breslin-wrote-donald-trump-decades-article-1.3003397)

Here is one I liked…

_Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately. His instinct appears to tell him that people crumble quickly at the first show of bravado, particularly members of the media, which is the plural of mediocre. Trump cannot be blamed for taking advantage of people who love to be victims of press agentry. He will tell the shoe-shine boys of the press that he plans to have his Eastern Airlines shuttle fly into space, and they will treat it as exciting news._\* As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.\*\*  
Jimmy Breslin was published in Newsday on October 13, 1988.  
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I thought this was prescient:

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> Breslin advised readers, “beware always of the loudmouth taking advantage of the situation and appealing to a crowd’s meanest nature.”

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**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-breslin-on-donald-trump/782687/3 "2017-03-21T16:11:18Z")

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I quite like Al Sharpton, and the other black politicians who were pursued by the main stream media for being uppity.  
Not keen on Trump though.