Campaign ad for...FRED TRUMP FOR MAYOR.

[brooklynite]

[oldmanandthesea]

1. Careful, I hear this may be a hoax. Funny as hall, though.

[Skinner]

2. I'm skeptical that this is real.

The Fred Trump Wikipedia page doesn't mention anything about a run for mayor.

Nothing on snopes yet.

[Pantagruel]

3. Real ad proposal

but I think Trump Sr. gave up on the idea of running against Lindsey.Probably never aired but someone preserved it.

[oldmanandthesea]

4. Warning FAKE:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/10/no-donald-trumps-father-didnt-create-racist-ads-for-a-mayoral-bid/?utm_term=.23efa759d2d1

[tenorly]

5. True - but I don't doubt it crossed his mind.

His, and William F. Buckley's.

[oldmanandthesea]

6. agree, totally plausable.

[tenorly]

7. Buckley in particular always added a theatrical flair to his very unabashed racism - much like Trump

He was also quite the cynical little bastard, and of course always took care to couch his bigotry in cynicism so that it wouldn't sound as petty as Trump does.

Once, on a Firing Line episode centered on race relations (which he mostly used to blame Black people for their "inferior" status), he quipped something to the effect that "one could argue that the people least interested in doing away with slavery were the abolitionists themselves; indeed, insomuch as the Emancipation Proclamation meant there would no slavery, it also meant there would be no anti-slavery league."