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What Donald Trump’s butler saw: behind the scenes of a real-life Xanadu
The presidential hopeful’s manservant-turned-‘estate historian’ has offered us a priceless glimpse inside his employer’s palatial Florida home
Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde
Thu 17 Mar 2016 14.08 EDT
Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 14.15 EST
Faithful servant: Donald Trump with his former butler, Anthony Senecal, who is historian
for the tycoon’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
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The interview took place at Mar-a-Lago itself, which – despite also functioning as a private club – comes across as merely a snowglobe short of Xanadu. But we shall come to Mr Trump’s self-confessed favourite movie later. In other fiction, a mildly exasperated yet uber-competent valet is an accessory frequently sported by the socially dysfunctional or semi-housebroken rich guy. Perhaps this was the aim of the Trump campaign, which seeks to cast Senecal very much as the Alfred to Trump’s superannuated Bruce Wayne, as opposed to the Oddjob to his Auric Goldfinger.
Even so, Senecal’s sense of professional obligation tends toward the malarial. “Years ago,” reveals the profile, “he received an urgent warning from Mr Trump’s soon-to-land plane that the mogul was in a sour mood. Mr Senecal quickly hired a bugler to play Hail to the Chief as Mr Trump stepped out of his limousine to enter Mar-a-Lago.”
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You may find yourself simply unable to decide whether Mr Senecal is a galaxy-class fawner or a weapons-grade underminer. He proffers statements that beg to be cackled at. “Mr Trump rarely appears in bathing trunks.” Donald’s transparently sociopathic wife Melania is billed as “exceptionally compassionate”. At other moments, Senecal becomes positively Danvers-esque. We learn that Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, “really didn’t belong here”.
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So then to Trump’s favourite movie, about which he can be seen speaking rather mesmerically in historic footage recently released by the acclaimed documentary maker Errol Morris. Like many rich and powerful people, Trump seems hardwired to misunderstand the movies – I assume all movies – and consequently his gloss on the action should be treated with caution. “Citizen Kane is really about accumulation,” he explains, “and, at the end of the accumulation, you see what happens, and it’s not necessarily all positive.” Ya think? But it is in Trump’s fix for the protagonist’s problems that we get a sense of the real shallows of his understanding. His happy-ending advice to Kane would have been: “Get yourself a different woman.”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2016/mar/17/what-donald-trump-butler-saw-behind-scenes-real-life-xanadu-citizen-kane
Worse, others have so little understanding of anything! Too hard having to do so much by myself. Wish others were geniuses like me!!"
"Because he works so hard everyday. lol #executivetime"
What Donald Trump’s butler saw: behind the scenes of a real-life Xanadu
The presidential hopeful’s manservant-turned-‘estate historian’ has offered us a priceless glimpse inside his employer’s palatial Florida home
Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde
Thu 17 Mar 2016 14.08 EDT
Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 14.15 EST
Faithful servant: Donald Trump with his former butler, Anthony Senecal, who is historian
for the tycoon’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
[...]
The interview took place at Mar-a-Lago itself, which – despite also functioning as a private club – comes across as merely a snowglobe short of Xanadu. But we shall come to Mr Trump’s self-confessed favourite movie later. In other fiction, a mildly exasperated yet uber-competent valet is an accessory frequently sported by the socially dysfunctional or semi-housebroken rich guy. Perhaps this was the aim of the Trump campaign, which seeks to cast Senecal very much as the Alfred to Trump’s superannuated Bruce Wayne, as opposed to the Oddjob to his Auric Goldfinger.
Even so, Senecal’s sense of professional obligation tends toward the malarial. “Years ago,” reveals the profile, “he received an urgent warning from Mr Trump’s soon-to-land plane that the mogul was in a sour mood. Mr Senecal quickly hired a bugler to play Hail to the Chief as Mr Trump stepped out of his limousine to enter Mar-a-Lago.”
[...]
You may find yourself simply unable to decide whether Mr Senecal is a galaxy-class fawner or a weapons-grade underminer. He proffers statements that beg to be cackled at. “Mr Trump rarely appears in bathing trunks.” Donald’s transparently sociopathic wife Melania is billed as “exceptionally compassionate”. At other moments, Senecal becomes positively Danvers-esque. We learn that Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, “really didn’t belong here”.
[...]
So then to Trump’s favourite movie, about which he can be seen speaking rather mesmerically in historic footage recently released by the acclaimed documentary maker Errol Morris. Like many rich and powerful people, Trump seems hardwired to misunderstand the movies – I assume all movies – and consequently his gloss on the action should be treated with caution. “Citizen Kane is really about accumulation,” he explains, “and, at the end of the accumulation, you see what happens, and it’s not necessarily all positive.” Ya think? But it is in Trump’s fix for the protagonist’s problems that we get a sense of the real shallows of his understanding. His happy-ending advice to Kane would have been: “Get yourself a different woman.”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2016/mar/17/what-donald-trump-butler-saw-behind-scenes-real-life-xanadu-citizen-kane
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