Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Donald J. Trump has apparently started a blog.
I say apparently because I really can't see him sitting down and typing away, although the self-adulatory and glorifying tone of his posts so far isn't that different to a lot of other really bad personal weblogs which the internet has the misfortune to contain. Let's suggest to ourselves that it might be 'ghostwritten'.
The most recent post contains a load of smug chuckling at the misfortune of other corporate high-flyers in their conviction for corruption related activities.
Blogging is great because no matter who you are, you can present what you want to the world.
Example one: You're a celebrity mogul with a new internet learning "university" venture on the go, and so you use blogging to reinforce the brand, communicate through a new medium, and of course, boast that you're great and that everyone can learn from you.
Example two: You're a hobbying writer and blogger who happened to chance across the weblog of a celebrity mogul and you decided to comment. Blogging can now come to your aid, because your comment was edited, changed and falsified to only reinforce the brand and sycophantic tone of the whole sorry sham. Phrases like 'All this corporate trumpeting aside' might have been edited off the front of a sentence which now reads 'I think you have some excellent points.'.
You might have written a brief commentary on the fact that people who are corrupt or who put little effort into obtaining money may be more prone to bad taste and inconsiderate squandering, while people who work hard are liable to use more discretion...and that bit of the comment might have been completely deleted from the final comment.
Your slightly snarky final line, 'Transparency of action and truthful personal narrative from public figures can be useful tools and valuable assets.' might have been changed to 'Transparency and narrative from public figures can be useful tools and valuable assets.'
In which case blogging could help you out in straightening the details.
And then of course there's TrackBack...
Hello, Trump / Trump underling.
Did you know that in England "trump" is slang for fart?
Some people say, "I've trumped" when what they actually mean is that bacteria in their bowels have produced so much waste gas as they assist in the digestion of food or parasitically feed on the contents of their host's intestines that the gas has leaked out from between their buttocks.
You learn something new every day.
Update: Their Trackback is broken. Bloody typical.
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