My wife was watching “The Wolf of Wall Street” while I was intermittently suffering through the final game of the World Series on Wednesday. I was struck by two things about the movie. First of all, from a stylistic perspective, it was remarkably similar to the better “Goodfellas.” Second, and perhaps more importantly, it reminded me a great deal of Donald Trump.
Trump doesn’t drink, and I have no reason to believe that he relies on drugs other than caffeine, but he is a product of the same kind of amoral, materialistic, self-promoting culture as the protagonists in the movie. Like them, he invents stories and rips people off without the slightest sense of remorse. Could we actually put this man in the White House? It boggles the imagination.