These are the worst things Donald Trump has said about himMore Articles August 17, 2018 Parks and Recreation just ended three years ago but is it time to return to Pawnee Indiana already? Interestingly there has been some speculation over the last few months about a potential reunion or revival. So what is the situation and who would return for this potential revival? Let’s just take a look at all we learned so far.
8/8.714 8/8.714 Chris Pratt on Parks and Recreation NBC Chris Pratt was one of the first Parks stars to propose a chance to return to Pawnee in the future in 2016. Jim O’Heir who played Jerry (or Garry or Larry or Terry) during the summer of 2017 said he’d be down for a revival. “For 7 seasons every day, the love and laughter of that series” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I’d go there, like that? Anything it cost. Whatever it takes! “Although this idea had been technically proposed by Pratt before the quote from O’Heir was the first to really gain traction and it started to generate a lot of debate about whether Parks would return. Often an actor being politely asked in an interview about a series being revived is what can get the ball rolling so would that be the case here? Anything had to be said of the other actors?
Aubrey Plaza said she’d be down too 8/8.716 8/8.716 Aubrey Plaza in Parks and Recreation Netflix The next person to say they’d be involved in a revival was Aubrey Plaza, who appeared at the series in April. This was particularly surprising as Plaza stayed very busy with FX’s Legion and films such as The Little Hours and Ingrid Goes West. Plaza’s first reaction in an interview was to suggest they’d probably have to wait a little longer before doing the reunion. Yet Plaza added after thinking about it for a minute “I never do. I’m going to do it I’m going to do it let’s do it. I miss Janet Snakehole I love Shauna Malwae-Tweep and my husband Andy is missing it. Where is he from? “Nick Offerman said he would do it if Mike Schur were involved
8/8.717 Nick Offerman on Parks and Recreation NBC The revival of the Parks would not be possible without Ron Swanson so what does Nick Offerman think of all this? Well Offerman said he would do it in March 2018 assuming co-creator Mike Schur is interested. He also said he would need to include Amy Poehler even though that sort of thing goes without saying. “Maybe now they’re bringing back every show they’re going to want to bring back our series” he said. “If that were ever to happen it would be much larger than mine due to brains. I trust brains with my life. And so if Mike Schur and Amy Poehler want to bring back the show and they think it’s a good idea I’m going to sign on sure. I’m going to eat more meat at their behest. “
8/8.718 8/8.718 Parks and Recreation NBC If Amy Poehler would be involved in this potential Parks reboot was still an open question for a while, but she announced it was in May. Not only that but she indicated that everyone is even those from whom we haven’t heard publicly.Parks and Recreation Greg Daniels and Michael Schur produced NBC Parks and Recreation and the series wouldn’t really be the same without them coming back. Honestly it’s hard to imagine the actors choosing to do it without them; even Offerman said that if Schur were involved he would only want to do it. So far, neither Daniels nor Schur have said that they would want to bring Parks back and that is the biggest open question at this point. Almost the entire cast is on board and with NBC reviving so many shows it’s hard to imagine the network wouldn’t be open to that. The question now is only whether Daniels and Schur agree that a reboot is a good idea creatively, and whether they have time for it in their schedules. Neither of them has had any of their shows revived since. One of the problems is that the Parks series finale gave viewers an incredible amount of closure jumping forward to show exactly where all the characters wind up in their lives over the next several decades. So would it even be worth going back to this story? Daniels and Schur may decide to bring the show back for a one-time special or movie but it seems unlikely a full new run i.e. Will Grace. Then again in the era of the renaissance of television we should never say never again.
Jess Bolluyt More Articles December 21, 2017 8/8.720 Although regarded by some current US President Donald Trump as a joke candidate, he is known as a real estate mogul whose money is famously difficult to pin downdoesn’t smoke or drink. Or that he loves the media spotlight the evidence being expended on The Apprentice and his controversial statements during the political campaign during that period. Despite the media coverage storm surrounding Trump, there are still a few things that you may not know about the President. Here are a few things which might really shock you.
1. Trump makes money from just selling his name
Many of those projects were backed by Trump’s own business-focused mindNew York magazine states that this became a popular business strategy for Trump in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s when condominium developers and other real estate moguls would give Trump a share in their profits if he lent his name to their house. Trump who made his name in creating agreed that this arrangement was a successful one because it’s “better than ownership because it’s a warrant. You don’t put the money in there. You just don’t put anything up. Not surprisingly, these projects do not always perform so well, but sometimes people are driven to make subpar investments in the illusion that Trump is behind the initiative. In the clip above from Last Week Tonight (starting around 12:38) John Oliver walks through the question. 2.
He does not use a hair dryer
8/8.721 Trump’s hair has taken on a celebrity status of his own Ethan Miller / Getty Images The 2016 election cycle was the first time multiple candidates came under fire over their hairstyles and in most instances it was not even focused around the female candidates. Bernie Sanders didn’t like to speak very much about his wispy white mane, but The Donald talked very frankly about his trade tricks in hair styling. One hair stylist told TIME that to build Trump’s trademark locks all you’d have to do is blow-dry your hair forward fold and blow your locks back to both sides in the front section and then empty a can of hairspray on your head to keep it in place. Yet Trump says he’s not using a hair-dryer. “I get up and wash my hair and take a shower. Then I read the newspapers and watch the news on TV, and the hair slowly dries away. It takes about an hour to complete. I don’t use a dryer for the blast. I comb it once it’s dry. Once I’ve got it the way I like it although no one else likes it I spray it and it’s perfect for the day, “Trump told Playboy in an interview in 2004. Trump also acknowledges vanity especially when defending his locks. In his book Trump: How to Get Rich, he spends a chapter describing his hairstyle and categorically denying that he has ever worn a hairpiece or wig. “I’m going to admit I’m painting my hair too,” Trump writes. “Somehow the color never looks great but what the hell I just don’t like gray hair.” Nowadays Trump is mostly known in the sporting world as being an ambassador of golfGenerals did better in their two seasons under Trump than their inaugural year under other ownership but that didn’t stop people from putting blame on Trump’s foot for the entire league debacle. Fortune Trump said he led the charge of USFL owners who sued the NFL for antitrust violations. The aim was either to win television commercials after a successful lawsuit, or to persuade the NFL to integrate with the USFL. We will have a league that will be as competitive as the NFL, or we will have a Trump merger said. However, the USFL gained just $3 from the case and the league folded before shifting to a fall schedule. Small Potatoes from ESPN: Who’s Killing the USFL? “”4.
8/8.723 8/8.723 Trump speaks at a campaign rally John Sommers II / Getty Images Trump does not often take-backs or apologize it’s just not his style. Instead he goes on using language that celebrates his own work. The self-promoting attitude is not just a campaign tactic he’s always had a strong sense of self-confidence and ability. One classmate at the New York Military Academy from Trump’s high school days told Business Insider that Trump even as a student aspired to own real estate on Fifth Avenue long before Trump Tower came to be. It would appear that Trump’s early-established trust also had a positive effect on the opposite sex. Trump had been voted “Ladies ‘ Man” for his senior year in the yearbook. “He was a stunning, very good-looking guy and he carried himself in such a way that everybody felt he would be very attractive for the opposite sex,” classmate George Beuttell said. Trump said it was because he has always respected women and “have treated women with utmost respect.”
5. He’s a bigger family guy than you might think
8/8.724 8/8.724 Trump has five kids Kena Betancur / AFP / Getty Images Trump is also a parent of eight grandchildren who have recently been counting son Ivanka with her husband Jared Kushner. All told Trump considers himself as a member of the house. “I have always said I was a great father. Less of a good husband “he joked at 2011’s The Oprah Winfrey Show. “I love my family.” Trump also seems to be following in the footsteps of his own father by handing the family business on to his heirs. Trump’s three eldest daughters, while college-aged Tiffany is studying business at the University of Pennsylvania, are already high-level executives in Trump Organisation. (Barron is only 10 years old.) “I would like them to continue what I did,” Trump said on Oprah. “I’ve done a good job and I would like them to continue to enjoy a different level and enjoy their lives.”
6. Trump’s paternal grandparents and mother were immigrants
8/8.725 President Donald Trump usually says very little about the former immigrant to his family iStock.com / mj0007 Trump kicked off his presidential campaign with some headline-grabbing comments on immigration. As The Week notes those remarks were targeting the mass of disaffected angry and largely white voters who feel that immigrants have stolen their jobs their sense of security and their self-respect. But his anti-immigration views seem to belie his own family’s immigrant past and they contradict Trump’s promise to tell it like it is. Like most Americans Trump’s family has immigrants in its not-so-distant past. His mother Mary Anne MacLeod Trump was born in the Hebridean island of Lewis part of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. His grandfather Friedrich Trump had emigrated from Kallstadt, a small German town. It was this Trump who accumulated what The Week characterizes as “the first fortune of the Trump family” by opening alcohol-supplying restaurants. Elizabeth, Friedrich’s aunt, wished to return to Germany. But since Friedrich had left the country before he was old enough to complete the compulsory military service of Germany, the authorities rejected him as a dodger draft and would not regain his German citizenship. So returned to New York Friedrich and Elizabeth who was five months pregnant with the father of Frederick “Fred” Christ Trump President Donald Trump. After his father died Frederick became the house man. He began to say that his ancestry was Swedish, due to the rising surge of anti-German sentiment between World War I and World War II. The New York Times reports that the decision of Frederick to bury the German heritage of the family coincided with his attempt to get into the real estate game and sell his property to the growing Jewish middle class in Brooklyn and Queens New York.Parks and Recreation Greg Daniels and Michael Schur produced NBC Parks and Recreation and the series wouldn’t really be the same without them coming back. Honestly it’s hard to imagine the actors choosing to do it without them; even Offerman said that if Schur were involved he would only want to do it. So far, neither Daniels nor Schur have said that they would want to bring Parks back and that is the biggest open question at this point. Almost the entire cast is on board and with NBC reviving so many shows it’s hard to imagine the network wouldn’t be open to that. The question now is only w
hether Daniels and Schur agree that a reboot is a good idea creatively, and whether they have time for it in their schedules. Neither of them has had any of their shows revived since. One of the problems is that the Parks series finale gave viewers an incredible amount of closure jumping forward to show exactly where all the characters wind up in their lives over the next several decades. So would it even be worth going back to this story? Daniels and Schur may decide to bring the show back for a one-time special or movie but it seems unlikely a full new run i.e. Will Grace. Then again in the era of the renaissance of television we should never say never again.
Jess Bolluyt More Articles December 21, 2017 8/8.720 Although regarded by some current US President Donald Trump as a joke candidate, he is known as a real estate mogul whose money is famously difficult to pin downdoesn’t smoke or drink. Or that he loves the media spotlight the evidence being expended on The Apprentice and his controversial statements during the political campaign during that period. Despite the media coverage storm surrounding Trump, there are still a few things that you may not know about the President. Here are a few things which might really shock you.
1. Trump makes money from just selling his name
Many of those projects were backed by Trump’s own business-focused mindNew York magazine states that this became a popular business strategy for Trump in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s when condominium developers and other real estate moguls would give Trump a share in their profits if he lent his name to their house. Trump who made his name in creating agreed that this arrangement was a successful one because it’s “better than ownership because it’s a warrant. You don’t put the money in there. You just don’t put anything up. Not surprisingly, these projects do not always perform so well, but sometimes people are driven to make subpar investments in the illusion that Trump is behind the initiative. In the clip above from Last Week Tonight (starting around 12:38) John Oliver walks through the question. 2.
He does not use a hair dryer
8/8.721 Trump’s hair has taken on a celebrity status of his own Ethan Miller / Getty Images The 2016 election cycle was the first time multiple candidates came under fire over their hairstyles and in most instances it was not even focused around the female candidates. Bernie Sanders didn’t like to speak very much about his wispy white mane, but The Donald talked very frankly about his trade tricks in hair styling. One hair stylist told TIME that to build Trump’s trademark locks all you’d have to do is blow-dry your hair forward fold and blow your locks back to both sides in the front section and then empty a can of hairspray on your head to keep it in place. Yet Trump says he’s not using a hair-dryer. “I get up and wash my hair and take a shower. Then I read the newspapers and watch the news on TV, and the hair slowly dries away. It takes about an hour to complete. I don’t use a dryer for the blast. I comb it once it’s dry. Once I’ve got it the way I like it although no one else likes it I spray it and it’s perfect for the day, “Trump told Playboy in an interview in 2004. Trump also acknowledges vanity especially when defending his locks. In his book Trump: How to Get Rich, he spends a chapter describing his hairstyle and categorically denying that he has ever worn a hairpiece or wig. “I’m going to admit I’m painting my hair too,” Trump writes. “Somehow the color never looks great but what the hell I just don’t like gray hair.” Nowadays Trump is mostly known in the sporting world as being an ambassador of golfGenerals did better in their two seasons under Trump than their inaugural year under other ownership but that didn’t stop people from putting blame on Trump’s foot for the entire league debacle. Fortune Trump said he led the charge of USFL owners who sued the NFL for antitrust violations. The aim was either to win television commercials after a successful lawsuit, or to persuade the NFL to integrate with the USFL. We will have a league that will be as competitive as the NFL, or we will have a Trump merger said. However, the USFL gained just $3 from the case and the league folded before shifting to a fall schedule. Small Potatoes from ESPN: Who’s Killing the USFL? “”4.
8/8.723 8/8.723 Trump speaks at a campaign rally John Sommers II / Getty Images Trump does not often take-backs or apologize it’s just not his style. Instead he goes on using language that celebrates his own work. The self-promoting attitude is not just a campaign tactic he’s always had a strong sense of self-confidence and ability. One classmate at the New York Military Academy from Trump’s high school days told Business Insider that Trump even as a student aspired to own real estate on Fifth Avenue long before Trump Tower came to be. It would appear that Trump’s early-established trust also had a positive effect on the opposite sex. Trump had been voted “Ladies ‘ Man” for his senior year in the yearbook. “He was a stunning, very good-looking guy and he carried himself in such a way that everybody felt he would be very attractive for the opposite sex,” classmate George Beuttell said. Trump said it was because he has always respected women and “have treated women with utmost respect.”
5. He’s a bigger family guy than you might think
8/8.724 8/8.724 Trump has five kids Kena Betancur / AFP / Getty Images Trump is also a parent of eight grandchildren who have recently been counting son Ivanka with her husband Jared Kushner. All told Trump considers himself as a member of the house. “I have always said I was a great father. Less of a good husband “he joked at 2011’s The Oprah Winfrey Show. “I love my family.” Trump also seems to be following in the footsteps of his own father by handing the family business on to his heirs. Trump’s three eldest daughters, while college-aged Tiffany is studying business at the University of Pennsylvania, are already high-level executives in Trump Organisation. (Barron is only 10 years old.) “I would like them to continue what I did,” Trump said on Oprah. “I’ve done a good job and I would like them to continue to enjoy a different level and enjoy their lives.”
6. Trump’s paternal grandparents and mother were immigrants
8/8.725 President Donald Trump usually says very little about the former immigrant to his family iStock.com / mj0007 Trump kicked off his presidential campaign with some headline-grabbing comments on immigration. As The Week notes those remarks were targeting the mass of disaffected angry and largely white voters who feel that immigrants have stolen their jobs their sense of security and their self-respect. But his anti-immigration views seem to belie his own family’s immigrant past and they contradict Trump’s promise to tell it like it is. Like most Americans Trump’s family has immigrants in its not-so-distant past. His mother Mary Anne MacLeod Trump was born in the Hebridean island of Lewis part of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. His grandfather Friedrich Trump had emigrated from Kallstadt, a small German town. It was this Trump who accumulated what The Week characterizes as “the first fortune of the Trump family” by opening alcohol-supplying restaurants. Elizabeth, Friedrich’s aunt, wished to return to Germany. But since Friedrich had left the country before he was old enough to complete the compulsory military service of Germany, the authorities rejected him as a dodger draft and would not regain his German citizenship. So returned to New York Friedrich and Elizabeth who was five months pregnant with the father of Frederick “Fred” Christ Trump President Donald Trump. After his father died Frederick became the house man. He began to say that his ancestry was Swedish, due to the rising surge of anti-German sentiment between World War I and World War II. The New York Times reports that the decision of Frederick to bury the German heritage of the family coincided with his attempt to get into the real estate game and sell his property to the growing Jewish middle class in Brooklyn and Queens New York.8.
His delivery style is quite peculiar too
8/8.726 8/8.726 Trump’s speaking style is as distinctive as his handshake Scott Olson / Getty Images Last month I chose not to do interviews because they give interviews and they chop up the sentences and cut them short. You’ll get this lovely flowing expression where the back of the phrase returns to the front and they cut off the back of the phrase and I say I never said that. Traditionally, Trump’s addresses are unscripted. We contain several unfinished sentences with false beginnings and parentheticals. Trump quickly switches from on
e thought to another. Vox notes that the speaking style of the president is conversational and may even be the product of his New York upbringing, where it is a natural part of conversation to finish the sentences of other people. Many linguists suggest that the speaking style of Trump is indicative of a short attention span or a lack of analytical skills in scattered thoughts. But what seems to annoy Trump detractors most about the speaking style of the President is what makes it attractive to so many others. Vox notes that “Many of Trump’s most common catchphrases are in fact variations of time-tested speech processes used by salespeople. We re-energize and we help shape our unconscious. “And that’s not to say anything about the fact that with many of his listeners what he’s saying resonates. 9. He likes fast food but in the past 8/8.727 adopted a very different diet On the campaign trail Trump said he enjoys fast food. He even sometimes sent it to his private plane, according to Vanity Fair. In a CNN town hall debate Trump said “I think the food is fine. I guess I can live with all those locations Burger King McDonald’s. I’d had Kentucky Fried Chicken the other night. Not the worst thing in the world. “Oddly enough Trump attributes his fast-food habit to the cleanliness levels of fast-food chains that seem to assuage his germaphobic patterns. “The one thing about the big franchises: You can ruin McDonald’s one poor hamburger. You take one bad hamburger from Wendy’s and all these other places and they’re out of business. “But Trump wasn’t always a fast food fan. “Before he became a presidential candidate from reality television star, he looked much more like a health-conscious foodstuff than a fast-food aficionado,” notes Vox. “There was a time when Trump enjoyed lemongrass-infused salmon and lingonberry sorbet heirloom tomatoes.” Indeed, in his 2004 book Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success Real Estate and Life Trump told readers to pursue the Mar-A-Lago Diet. This diet consists primarily of eating healthy, fresh and minimally processed foods. But not all of that. According to Trump food “has to be served in a beautiful atmosphere” and has to “look fantastic” as well as “incredible taste.” Trump’s dietary change coincides with the long tradition of presidential hopefuls using food to appeal to voters. “Nothing says America more than McDonald’s” Vox states in a push like Trump’s to ‘ Make America Great Again. ‘ 10. 10. Phsychiatrists differ about whether Trump’s personality type is uncommon for a president Drew Angerer / Getty Images Like many actors and reality television stars Donald Trump has a great personality. But The Atlantic reports that many people who communicated with him got the feeling that Trump is an actor who plays a character. “More than Ronald Reagan Trump himself seems to be supremely aware of the fact that he always behaves. He goes through life as a man who knows that he is always being watched “notes The Atlantic. Trump’s temperament is fairly unique (and unusual) in Washington for that and other reasons. Many media platforms gave assessments of Trump’s personality specifics, highlighting his extroversion of his reputation for discord and his propensity towards social competitiveness and aggressiveness. Intense speculation about Trump’s psychological motives and possible medical diagnosis has prompted many critics to claim that he has a narcissistic disorder of personality. But the psychiatrist Allen Frances who headed the task force that wrote this doesn’t make him mentally ill because he doesn’t suffer from the depression and disability required to diagnose mental disorder. “Moreover, the American Psychiatric Association cautioned clinicians against speculating openly about Trump’s mental state without an in-person evaluation. The group quoted the Goldwater Standard that NPR states the APA introduced “after a 1964 psychiatrist survey found that nearly half of those interviewed thought that GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater was mentally unfit to be president.” Whether or not clinicians comply with the debate regarding Trump’s peculiar temperament is likely to continue for the foreseen future. 8/8.729 8/8.729 Trump says that he is basically the same person he was as a child Mark Wallheiser / Getty Images The Washington Post notes that, according to interviews with over three dozen of Trump’s childhood friends, classmates and neighbors, the childhood version of the current president was “Trump in miniature.” He was a bully to other people, and once gave a black eye to a music teacher. When he was 13 he was sent away to attend a military boarding school from his family’s lavish home. Trump was arrogant and competitive which probably sounds familiar and by the time he was 18 he had determined that “one day he was going to be very popular.” According to the Washington Post, “young Donald, with his playground taunts disturbances in the classroom and distinctive expressions, even then played his lips in a way that encouraged potential mimics.” 8/8.730 Figure 1 Queen Elizabeth Prince Charles Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Karwai Tang / WireImage