We now learn that the State Department is using its resources to promote mal de mer, Trumps's Florida golf resort. Even for these guys, by which I mean the Trump administration, this is pretty shabby. The landed gentry around New York used to refer to people like Trump as nouveau riche. This was not a complementary designation. It was used by rather snooty, smug people to refer to those with new money and privilege. If you had not had these things for 100 years or so , you just didn't fit. The term also invoked a rather boorish person, one who practiced conspicuous consumption and flagrant self-aggrandizement. Those of us who were not to the manor born also tended to be rather disparaging about these people. We typically just called them self-important jerks.
This news provoked in me for some reason a memory of the movie Caddy shack which also takes place at a private golf resort or club. More specifically, the character played by Rodney Dangerfield leaped into my mind. Trump, like Dangerfield is often hilarious. When this panjandrum sits with great pomposity and solemnity and describes his nonexisting accomplishments as president, speaks continually of the really really remarkable, very fantastic things he is about to do, and then signs a piece of paper which he holds up demonstrating that he can write in cursive, Rodney comes to mind.
Now that we have a few hundred television channels searching for content, one answer is creating a series based upon a prior successful movie. If Caddy Shack, the Series, comes to be made I know who could play the part formerly played by the dear departed Rodney. It is somebody who really likes being on television and it is not Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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