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Ron Burgundy + Biff Tannen + The Dude = Donald Trump

Is it just me or does Donald Trump come across as a hybrid of the cinema characters Ron Burgundy (from Anchorman), Biff Tannen (from Back to the Future), and The Dude (from The Big Lebowski)? Like Burgundy, it appears as though Trump will read anything that's placed in front of him. Like Biff, The Donald seems to believe he can bully anyone into getting his way. Lastly, like The Dude, the president comes across as a man without the largest vocabulary in the world, often repeating himself time and time again. Allow me to test that theory by writing a Trump speech using only quotes from the three before-mentioned characters. We'll see how this goes...

Donald Trump: "I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I was one of the original authors of the Port Huron Declaration. Not the compromised second draft... Don't act like you're not impressed. What are you looking at, butthead? Look at him. He's a butthead just like his old man was. Since you're new here, I-I'm gonna cut you a break, today. So, why don't you make like a tree and get outta here? By the way, do you think that you could give me that $20,000 in cash? My concern is, and I have to, uh, check with my accountant, that this might bump me into a higher, uh, tax... Alright, alright, I've got four dollars, almost five... Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine. Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man. I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science. Oddly enough I'm full blown 100% Mexican. Straight out of the state of Oaxaca. Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina. For just one night let's not be Co-workers. Let's be Co-people. Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era. Don't just have a great night, have an *American* night."

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