1958 TV Series Featured Con Man Selling a Wall

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2019/01/10/1958-tv-series-had-con-man-named-trump-selling-a-wall/

1958 TV Series Featured Con Man Selling a Wall
January 10, 2019 at 1:12 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 54 Comments

This is amazing: In 1958, CBS aired an episode of Trackdown in which a con man attempted to sell a town a “wall” in order to protect them from the fake threat of a meteor shower.

The con man’s name was Trump.

The show’s main character ultimately exposes Trump as a fraud who was plotting with the town’s sheriff to sell the wall. His final words: “You’re under arrest Trump.”

Link to tweet

[grantcart]

1. You can't make this shit up

[Gothmog]

2. K&R

[grantcart]

3. It's a real episode. Can't link because on phone but wiki on Trackdown confirms it.

[MFGsunny]

4. Snopes ...

Here it is::

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trackdown-trump-character-wall/

[progressoid]

14. thanks.

[CousinIT]

5. Duplicate

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211650767

[Pachamama]

22. That thread is a duplicate of another thread from Wednesday - here is the original....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11649383

[democratisphere]

6. 60 years later the gullible deplorables and CONald are still at it!

[moondust]

7. Weird.

Was old man Fred going around lobbying for the racist wall that had been proposed at the 1924 KKK convention? Did he become the face of that KKK wall because he was a rich guy in the public eye? Did some writers for Trackdown hear about him and write an episode based on him? Seems too coincidental to be an accident.

[haele]

10. I imagine one of the screenplay writers had leased from ol' Fred, or had relatives who did.

My great-aunt married up and was in 2nd tier NY society during WWII through the 1980's before she "retired" to Santa Monica. She had some choice words about Trump, his Dad, and their real estate money ("greedy slumlords", "idiot barbarians" and "mobster front men&quot when Robin Leach did his "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" profile, and I remember she was heartbroken when the Bonewits building was torn down for that "gilded monstrosity".

Haele

[bigbrother05]

13. Wasn't that the building he agreed to salvage the facade, then trashed it?

Know there was a building with a gorgeous carvings that he promised to save to make the deal. It was written into the contract, but he didn't want to pay out and pocketed the cost when it was demolished.

eta:

Link to a Frontline video on this story, John Baron (AKA the Donald) gave quotes to the media about how worthless the sculptures were

[moondust]

20. If that episode was about Fred Trump

because Fred was known around NY for promoting a stupid racist wall, maybe little Donny is just following through on that old wall dream his daddy used to talk about but he and the KKK never got the chance to build.



(Maybe we should write our own screenplay. )

[dlk]

8. Unbelievable!

[dsc]

9. Careful or I will sue you and trust me

they even have the cadence down.

[Niagara]

11. K & R

[dmr]

12. OMG! He evens threatens to sue!

Is this really, truly real?

[Canoe52]

15. Somebody from the future went back in time and wrote that.

Only answer from simplest solution.

[grantcart]

16. Robert Culp always seemed like he was from 2346

[IncaRoads]

17. In amazing monster vision

[dameatball]

18. I remember this series from childhood and it is real.

[0rganism]

19. life imitating art imitating life

apparently, episodes of the show were based on actual stories of Texas Rangers so the state of Texas and the Rangers had to sign off on them.

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[Hamlette]

21. strange