Opinion: Beauty and the Trump

By Simon Utsu

It beats my imagination that the same crop of Nigerians who’ve been decrying the choice of President Buhari for some time now, are still the ones clamouring for Trump to be President, ahead of Hilary. Even with Trump being gradually exposed to be a fraud and the worse of the two evils(Hilary&Trump) you see my Nigerian friends standing by their resolve; nothing can change that- they have made up their minds. It goes to show that if elections are conducted today in Nigeria and two candidates are presented, majority of Nigerians will still vote the worse of the two in as President.

If I may ask, which of Trump’s businesses have stood the test of time, without going into liquidation or being circled in deep controversy? His real estate in highbrow areas in some parts of the US doesn’t accept black tenants. The design of his golf course in Scotland didn’t meet standard environmental requirements and attracted so much protests during its construction phase and even up till date.

Trumps only very successful business that  I know of is his beauty pageant franchise which hardly adds value to the society. What are beauty queens known for asides starting needless NGOs and going about searching for millionaire/billionaire dates or husbands? To most of them, their beauty is a meal ticket to greatness! The only beauty pageant winner that has really impressed me in recent times was former Miss America, Vanessa Williams. She was the first black Miss America. She went ahead to do so well in music, releasing the hit album “Comfort Zone” in the early 90’s which had hit tracks such as “save the best for the last”, “running back to you” , “work to do” and “comfort zone”. And I didn’t just pick this from the internet, this is an album I had and digested for over a year. She(Vanessa) also went on to be a very successful actress, starring in several movies which include the mid 90’s action thriller, Eraser where she co-starred with Arnold  Schwarzenegger.

I had to write ‘this much’ about beauty queens because Trump always rates them highly- to him, they’re a priority. His current wife, Melania who is an ex-model is a beauty no doubt and has aged gracefully but it seems what she has in beauty, she lacks in brains. She exposed herself to be a dunce/dullard/’dundee’ a couple of days back when she delivered a speech which was mostly lifted from a 2008 speech delivered by Obama’s wife. Her kind of first lady won’t run out of speeches, especially when you consider the fact that America has had more than 40 first ladies, hence, she will have more than 40 speeches to plagiarize from if she becomes first lady. That is what could happen when one drops out from school to pursue a modelling career like Melania did.

Folks, I’m sorry that I had to go all personal on his wife, I was just playing the Trump card. We should remember how Trump, a few months back made very uncomplimentary remarks about the looks of Ted Cruz’s wife during a debate in the run in to the republican Presidential primaries.

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