Reading over some Dan Kennedy material last week, the veteran marketer recounted a story from well over a decade ago.

At this point Donald Trump had not yet run for president (if you don't count that dalliance he had with the Reform Party in 2000), but these men — Trump and Kennedy — would occasionally cross paths.

Trump, of course, was and is more famous than Kennedy, but there is an argument to be made that Kennedy has perhaps amassed more real wealth than Trump. They are roughly similar in age. Kennedy is a bit younger, I think.

Nevertheless, Kennedy reported:

Backstage, after a brief conversation, Donald Trump asked me: "What three books are you reading now?"

The question is — hopefully, obviously — instructive. He presumed I was reading more than one book simultaneously because he is reading more than one book simultaneously, and he knows that is typical of 'serious students' — which all highly successful people are. It also reveals his relentless search for something; anything he might be missing. It also switched wasted 'small talk' into potentially useful conversation.

I named three books. He asked about one. Then he told his hovering assistant to get it for him from amazon. Now.

Look, I have my bones to pick with The Donald. Killing my favorite sports league when I was a boy is at the top of the list. We wrote about that a while ago, so I won't rehash it here.

But, for all the guff Trump gets from the establishment media and the leftist blowhards within this culture, and particularly aside from his hairstyle, he is a serious man — at least more serious than Ice Cream Joe.

The establishment media once adored Donald Trump. He was on all the daytime talk shows and even had a tremendously popular reality game show on NBC that has been largely memory-holed.

All the sudden, when he declared he was a "Republican," the same folks who lifted him up aimed to cut him down.

Nuts.

Aside from Barack Hussein Obama II and, now, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., Donald J. Trump was the most liberal president in history.

Liberal and/or left is not good. In fact it is very bad — like "not fit for a proper society" bad.

Getting back to The Great Orange One, at the same time he declared his intention to run for President, he got the opposite reaction from those not firmly on the left.

A great deal of the people who used to think Trump was a circus act started defending the New York celebrity, even supporting him—in a way that was both bizarre and unprecedented.

All this to say, I don't give a crap who you vote for as long as it isn't Ice Cream Joe or the freakshow the Libertarians nominated a few days ago.

One good option the Libertarians gave us is the option to vote "NOTA" — None of the Above. You can never go wrong in an election voting NOTA.

I usually write-in NOTA more often than choosing a candidate.

And speaking of libertarians, I have never called myself one, but I run in the same circles, particularly in the Tom Woods School of Life.

Tom is holding his annual conference in Orlando later this month. Sign up to Tom's School right now and as a member of good standing, you don't pay a cent to attend the two-day Practical Liberty Unconference.

I'll be there — amongst one of the last bastions of sane people left in our culture, June 21-23.

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As always,

Brian

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