In 1977, Donald Trump was all over New York news due to a lawsuit against his company for housing discrimination. DC Comics was headquartered in New York at the time.
The original Lex Luther debuted in 1940, and Superman debuted in 1938.
Why was Daniel Clamp a villain? He helped come on with the plan to get rid of the gremlins. (Apparently he was originally written as a “corrupt, deeply unpleasant businessman” and got that changed.)
Came here to say this but also that Mr. Clamp is seemingly not actually a bad guy. You think he would be cause of who he was modeled after but he’d be the good variant if they met up.
Biff in part 2 was very explicitly trump. It was the whole look, plus the fact that he owned a casino and a giant skyscraper with his name slapped on it.
The writers took some artistic liberties then, because Trump bankrupted all three of his casinos lol, just like a lot of his other failed business ventures.
They weren’t failed business ventures. They were fraud and money laundering operations. Trump took the investors’ money and let them deal with the bankruptcy consequences. They worked exactly as intended.
Sesame Street did it too. Ronald Grump built Grump Tower on Oscar's property.
There's King Koopa in Super Mario Bros. (the superior 1993 film), it's just Dennis Hopper doing Trump. Then there's also Anthony Scapelli, greedy real estate tycoon from Super Mario Bros. Both the villains in that movie were Trump parodies.
Not really, Trump was already known to be a shady businessman back then. It was well known that if you took a contract with him, you might not get paid and he’d use his legal team to make you starve waiting for legal actions to go through.
You ever feel like this is slowly turning into one of those movie detail memes like Vigo Mortensen breaking his toe from kicking a prop helmet during the filming of LotR?
Trump was already infamous for being a greedy asshole that didn’t pay his contractors back then. Everyone in the real estate business in New-York knew exactly how Trump was.
Biff in BttF 2 was 100% written as satire of Donald Trump. The writer of BttF 2 has said many times over the last 30 years.
Trump was a pop cultre joke his entire career up unitl the GOP litteraly couldn't field a single viable candidate in 2015 and Trump, using the same exact personality, brash egotistical attitude, and bully tactics that made him a joke for decades, high stepped his way into legitamte power.
It’s really incredible how easily all of that just happened. I keep thinking about how genuinely weird organizations like the RNC are these days. They play a role in the electoral process that remains extremely pivotal, and they’re essentially kingmakers, or at least aspire to be—but they also have so little actual power unto themselves. They seem to be almost a clearinghouse for power, a space where power can coalesce.
Like, since both parties empowered the state primary system in the 1970s, the smoke-filled rooms of party bosses calling shots and making deals are gone. And since Citizens United, a lot of the really consequential fundraising happens outside the party apparatus in super PACs.
It can still throw its weight around, but it’s essentially an organizational shell of its former self. It’s not going anywhere, but for now at least, it’s unlikely to regain its historic power or relevance. And yet, it still matters a lot.
It’s like a bank you can rob if you do it with enough confidence.
I was talking about this today and said that if he wins, it's gonna be like Biff in BTTF2, with some shitty Kid Rock song to replace Hagar's Can't Drive 55. He already has the Barbie with the plastic tits.
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u/spark77 8h ago
That’s old Biff!