Open Thread

So what? His dad was filthy rich. He gave him a huge building (100 + apartments) on Ave Z and Nostrand Ave for his 18th birthday, whatever you say, it might be a low-class or vulgar gift (or haircut!) but you can’t say DT is “low class” or had a low class upbringing. George W. Bush went to ivy league schools but has cocaine/alcohol brain damage, are you saying you consider his upbringing to be “low class”? It’s just not true. GWB and DT are cultured regardless of how low class they choose to be it’s a choice Class is not a choice.

Also Crescent, As I’ve said before, I don’t really have much of a Brooklyn accent (depending on who I’m w/). I have friends that are less educated who have stronger accents, I also know poor whites from upstate NY who have NO discernable regional accent. In the United States one CAN have to do with the other but NOT NECESSARILY.

Donald Trump certainly had a very privileged upbringing, more so than any academic lace-curtain Catholic family in Brooklyn.

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at October 20, 2009 1:06 PM

LOL, privileged to you Joe perhaps. When Donald Trump was a little boy his dad would give him the key to the washing machines and dryers in the Trump buildings , so little Donald could collect the nickels out of them. I’m sure he did Joe.

Ditto, it’s the “choo” section of school. they say mine sounds light on the “ch” and more oo on the “oo” vs they emphasis the “ch” and light/soft on the “oo”. I, being the lesser educated one vs. them, was in no position to dispute what is correct or not.