1094: President Kane
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/04/21
“The higher the tariff, the more likely it is to have them come in… The higher the tariff, the more likely it is that the company will come into the United States and build a factory in the United States so it doesn’t have to pay the tariff… In fact, there’s another theory: the tariff, you make it so high, so horrible, so obnoxious, that they’ll come right away.”
45th and 47th President of the United States, Hon. Donald Trump
“The word rosebud is maybe the most significant word in film in what we all watch.
The wealth, the sorrow, the unhappiness, the happiness just struck lots of different notes. Citizen Kane was really about accumulation. And at the end of the accumulation, you see what happens, and it’s not necessarily all positive. Not positive. But I think he learned in Kane that maybe wealth isn’t everything because he had the wealth, but he didn’t have the happiness.
The table getting larger and larger and larger with he and his wife getting further and further apart as he got wealthier and wealthier. Perhaps I can understand that. The relationship that he had was not a good one for him. Probably not a great one for her, although there were benefits for her. But in the end, she was certainly not a happy camper.
In real life, I believe that wealth does in fact isolate you from other people. It’s a protective mechanism. You have your guard up much more so than you would if you didn’t have wealth. There was a great rise in Citizen Kane, and there was a modest fall. The fall wasn’t a financial fall.
The fall was a personal fall. But it was a fall, nevertheless. So you had the highs and you had the lows. A lot of people don’t really understand the significance of it. I’m not sure if anybody understands the significance, but I think the significance is bringing a lonely, rather sad figure back into his childhood.
The word rosebud, for whatever reason, has captivated moviegoers and movie watchers for so many years and to this day is perhaps the single word. And perhaps if they came up with another word that meant the same thing, it wouldn’t have worked. But rosebud works… For whatever reason.”
Mr. Donald Trump
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