TRUMP WON'T TANGO - MARCH 26, 2016

But Trump in the White House is Sinatra in the White House, temperamental, unpredictable, but loaded with talent and always true to his friends.

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Published: Monday, March 28, 2016 8:18 AM

Jack Engelhard

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The question of the hour is whether Trump is presidential enough to be president. He’s too brash, too outspoken; lacks the dignity that fits the office.


Unanimously from Democrats and partly from Republicans, that’s what they say.


As someone who is ready to vote for Trump and keeps rooting for him, I have to admit that sometimes he makes it difficult. The latest flare-up between Trump and Cruz is simply cringe-worthy. Now it’s about their wives, or rather the other man’s wife. Ridiculous!


That sounds too much like yo mammaexchanges in the schoolyard, together with my daddy is bigger than your daddy.


At this rate Hillary waltzes right in. Prayers are needed that this should never happen.


So Trump may be the hand that we are dealt, and this may not be altogether bad. He’s abrasive, but he won’t be doing the tango in Argentina at a time when Americans are among the slain in Brussels. For that, watch Obama. If that’s presidential, we need the term redefined.


Whatever his shortcomings – and we do wish he’d catch his breath before the next scornful tweet – Trump is what he is.


He’s impertinent, loud, boastful, flashy, ready and able to cut down a foe with a searing quip (which he’s already done to 16 of them), but he can be counted on in a pinch, as we know from the many down on their luck who’ve benefitted from his generosity.


He can also be counted on to deliver on a promise, which we know from his success in business.

He’s outrageous. He thinks big, bold, daring. That’s what it takes to be top of the heap. He is defiantly successful. He is New York.


Trump is a New Yorker and being gruff is something only insiders understand. We get the joke. Often, toughness is a cover for warmth.


New York means “we take care of our own,” and that is Trump’s appeal. Americans (the un-dead and the un-Liberal) have been longing for this.


When Trump says he remembers 9/11 and how New Yorkers came together in a snap, he means what he says, and he means it for the entire country.


Trump would never bow to kings or emperors, as did Obama for the king of Saudi Arabia and the emperor of Japan.


Trump is a New Yorker and being gruff is something only insiders understand. We get the joke. Often, toughness is a cover for warmth.
How was that for presidential?


Trump would never snub the prime minister of Israel as Obama did at least three times.


Trump would crush BDS and the entire boycott-Israel movement if only because his Jewish grandkids will be heading for college soon enough.


Obama dreamed of a Jewish State sent packing to 1967 Auschwitz borders. Never Trump. I have it reliably that Trump would be a true friend of Israel.


Trump in the White House is Sinatra in the White House, temperamental, unpredictable, but loaded with talent and always true to his friends.

Loyalty – if that is all Trump brings, it would be enough to cover all his sins.

IRAB NUKE DEAL – OBAMA PITCHES HOLLYWOOD BOX OFFICE POISON - JULY 30, 2015

Not so long ago when I was there in Hollywood to discuss another movie, I asked a producer when the town would finally open its eyes to Islamic terrorism. Where’s that movie? The man was quick with his answer: “When a bomb hits Paramount studios, that’s when.”

At this rate, that real-life drama could be coming soon enough to Hollywood and to a theater near you.

How do you sell a lousy script that’s been passed around from producer to producer with no buyer in sight?

The wording is unintelligible. The scenario is unfathomable. The characters are disreputable.

Where’s the box office for this clunker that’s being peddled as the Iran Nuke Deal?

But even the most despicable screenplay can be justified when the biggest tycoon sits in Washington and is named Barack Obama. He gets what he wants. He wants this baby sold. It did not take much arm-twisting to get Morgan Freeman and Jack Black to start a Yes campaign for this flop.

We can expect long lines hailing and heiling this upcoming disaster flick because the Boss says do as I say.

Some in Hollywood see the Iran Deal for what it is, a danger to the business, the town, the nation and the entire world. They want it stopped. It’s doubtful they will get as many signatures as Morgan 

Freeman’s Vote Yes petition. Maybe a handful of Hollywood’s elite will vote No, Thanks. We have enough Special Effects. We do not need actual bombs.

Jon Voight, Clint Eastwood and we should expect Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas to declare No, not in my name.

Where’s the box office for this clunker that’s being peddled as the Iran Nuke Deal?
Anybody else? Streisand? Spielberg? Not likely. Neither them nor the thousands who do lunch at Spago.

But hear this: When Hollywood flew off to Canada for the Toronto Film Festival, something else happened. The Festival honored the Israeli art of film making and sooner than you can say Danny Glover, amovement got started to boycott Israeli films and since that was so easy – why not boycott Israel altogether?

Moguls, producers, directors, actors – within an hour more than a thousand were in line behind Jane Fonda to sign the petition denouncing the Jewish State.

So this is not your father’s Hollywood. There was a time when the “Rat Pack” were kings and Frank Sinatra was Boss and Israel was in style.

Yesterday’s “Exodus” in the steady hands of Otto Preminger became today’s “Munich” in the fearful hands of Steven Spielberg.

Preminger boldly produced a movie with a strong pro-Israel theme – taken from Leon Uris.

Spielberg gave us lame and despicable moral equivalency – taken from Tony Kushner’s anti-Israel screenplay, for which, back then, I wrote this: “In Hollywood today, where David is Goliath and Goliath is David, you never want to be labeled a conservative or a fan of Israel.

“Hollywood is all about being trendy and Israel is not the trend.

“You won't get invited to the right parties and you won't win any Oscars if your heart bleeds for a nation that is always on the verge of being wiped off the map.”

Plus this: “Jews pioneered Hollywood. If, as our enemies say, we own Hollywood, well, here's the plot twist - we have lost Hollywood.”

To make sure that his Iran Deal gets a green light, John Kerry has already warned the Jewish people that they will be blamed if the deal goes down.

That is an ancient blood libel and if he is seeking frightened people to back his ungodly cause, he knows Hollywood is the place.

New York-based novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. Website: www.jackengelhard.com