The Art of Don the Con
Why Are We Still Talking About Donald Trump?
And why we must keep on; it’s a long road.
“What we did, that was a scam. That was an entertainment.” — Bill Pruitt, producer, The Apprentice
The Confidence Man
It all feels like a highway mirage, this road trip we’ve been on for the past 5+ years. At least for the majority of us who’ve always known Donald Trump as a con man. We can clearly see the optical illusion playing out — the mingling of heat and sun rays, refracting light on the flat road before us. But other passengers on this trip seem to not understand how mirages work; they keep saying we’re the crazy ones for not seeing those huge pools of water up ahead (which somehow keep moving a few hundred meters further down the road.) Yes, our fellow passengers realize the “water” keeps moving the closer we get, but that just makes them double down harder: that water is real.
In 2018, Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney created a Netflix investigative anthology, “Dirty Money,” which exposed brazen acts of corporate greed, corruption, and abuse of power. As described in an article for The Atlantic, “Dirty Money” is a series that “tackles “capitalism run amok — portraits of…
