Fading loudmouthed impresario Max Bialystock’s nebbish accountant Leo Bloom said it first, you can win more by losing. And Trump thought he could too- by running for president, endearing himself to the “poorly educated” (his words, not mine), then losing the vote but winning big where it mattered more- with his empty brand, his dumb customers, a new ghost-written book and fake reality show. So he put together a campaign designed to fail, staffed by characters straight from the movie- Nazi propagandists and pin-up Fox girls and wives (exs- and current), clueless hipster wanna-be policy wonks and cowardly bagmen- and then was more surprised than anyone when he came out on top and actually had to make it work.
And just as loudmouth Bialystock’s Trump, nebbish Bloom’s Allen Weisselberg, and the unshaven Nazi Springtime for Hitler scriptwriter Franz Liebkind’s Steve Bannon should end up behind bars- where they will soon meet the vain director Roger De Bris’s ostrich leather-coat wearing campaign manager Paul Manafort, so too we can hope to hear no more from the sing-song secretary Ulla Inga’s long-legged, empty-headed doppelgänger Melania (only she could turn Ulla’s sweet-natured come-on God dag på dig into the mean-spirited I really don’t care, do U?), idiot New Age-marinated Lorenzo St. DuBois (LSD)’s stand-in Jared Kushner to appeal to the campaign’s hipper (sic) voters, and the always on stage Eva Braun’s Kellyanne Conway. I can only guess who the Trump Presidency twin might be for the sharply accented “common-law assistant” Carmen Ghia (played by the Khartoum-born Greek Andreas Voutsinas)- maybe flatly ccented Reince Priebus, whose mother too was a Khartoum-born Greek?